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Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine
With 244 steps The Time Machine, built by by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, took first place and broke a world record at the 24th Annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. From the article: "It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, 'The Time Machine,' a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to water a single flower."
With efficiencies like that, they have a bright future in government.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Because that would be racist. Just like a "Society of Female Professional Engineers" would be ok but a "Society of Male Professional Engineers" would be sexist and discriminatory.
And it involves hydraulics.