OT - Amazing lego

Sorry, but I had to post this. In my search for the truth about the Mobius Strip I came across this site.

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Somebody tell me how the one-way gear mechanism works. Can it be as simple as a couple of ratchets?

If you have time on your hands, try to do THIS with lego! It certainly did my head in.

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This is pretty good too. The detail in the explanations is worth checking out.
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Anyway, I'm off to read up about minimal surfaces.

David

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That typo was wholly intentional :)

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David French

David> In my search for the truth about the Mobius Strip I hope you're talking about the famed topological construction of a three dimensional object with only one side and one edge, and not some dodgy German strip-joint! :-)

But, to the point: never mind the moebius strip. Take two and sew the edges together to make a 4 dimensional moebius strip with zero volume that you can drink a beer out of, then make it in Pyrex:

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Well, actually it's a three dimensional immersion of a 4 dimensional object (the best way to define "immersion" in this context is to say that a photograph of a range rover is a 2 dimensional immersion of the three dimensional range rover).

But you can drink beer out of it. For that matter you could drink two different beers out of it at the same time.

AndyC

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Twas Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:48:26 +0000 when AndyC the WB put finger to keyboard producing:

What ARE you talking about?

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Now _that_ is total quality!

Martyn

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Nice> What ARE you talking about?

I usually get asked that when I'm talking about the electronics in a Range Rover. :-)

AndyC

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