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Purdue Students Win Rube Goldberg Contest

Posted by kdawson on from the lucrative-offers-from-mickey-dee dept.

Dekortage writes "How long does it take to make a burger? Students from Purdue University's Society of Professional Engineers won the 2008 Rube Goldberg contest with a device that requires 156 steps to assemble a burger. According to the team captain, 'We put 4,000 to 5,000 man-hours into this machine since September, and all the hard work has been well worth it.' That's a long time to wait for dinner." Here's a video of the winning entry in operation.

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  1. Re:nice by ShieldW0lf · · Score: -1, Troll

    Smarts, maybe. Wisdom, definitely not. What a stupid thing to waste so much time on. I bet they're big video game players too.

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  2. In other news... by 222 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Still no cure for cancer. Sounds neat, though.

  3. Re:Wrong Video? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Here's a link with a story that depicts the machine, although we don't get to watch it all the way through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q4fTPwXy4U Here's a video of just the machine in action: Goldberg Competition

    Honors go to Tetsujin