The Complicated Way to Turn on a Flashlight

jangobongo writes "A machine built by the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers employed an outer-space theme and used steps that incorporated a bouncing water balloon, a fireman action figure fleeing a fire and weights attached to a spinning bicycle wheel to win the 18th national Purdue Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The winning machine told the story of rocket being launched. As the rocket traveled into space, a meteor hit Earth and started a fire. While the mock fire was put out, the rocket turned on the flashlight to shine back down on Earth. A short video clip can be seen here. The contest was filmed by the Game Show Network to be featured on the network's show, 'Games Across America,' at some future date."

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Re:mirrors, including .mov

[rapidweather]

How am I supposed to open these .mov files. I am using the AmaroK LiveCD, which has KDE, and I am currently viewing the page in Mozilla Firefox. I'm running Firefox from a pen drive, as it is not included in the PClinuxOS AmaroK LiveCD.

I can reboot into Windows XP and return here, but what would be the fun in that?

Re:mirrors, including .mov

[random_culchie]

No mplayer included. tut tut :)

Re:125 steps to turn on a flashlight ?

[darth_MALL]

All your joke are belong to us.
For great justice.