{"id":382016,"date":"2010-03-02T17:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:44:45","slug":"the-mother-of-all-rube-goldberg-machines-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/382016","title":{"rendered":"The Mother of all Rube Goldberg Machines! | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen a <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rube_Goldberg_Machine\">Rube Goldberg machine<\/a> in a science museum sometime, and watched with amusement while balls rolled down tracks or balloons inflated, triggering other mechanical events in a complicated chain reaction. But we guarantee you&#8217;ve never seen a Rube Goldberg machine quite like this.<\/p>\n<p>When the rock band OK Go, justly famous for its <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI\">treadmill dancing video<\/a>, decided to make a new music video for its song <span>&#8220;This Too Shall Pass,&#8221; the rockers tapped the artsy engineers at <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/syynlabs.com\/\">Syyn Labs<\/a> to do something really special. The result was this 4-minute Rube Goldberg machine that plays part of the song, synchronizes with the beat, and involves the band members getting very messy. It runs the length of a two-story warehouse, and the action was filmed in a single shot. With no further ado, we give you: The mother of all Rube Goldberg machines.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qybUFnY7Y8w&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Related Content:<br \/>\nDiscoblog: <strong><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/26\/snow-day-special-warbling-scientists-on-the-newest-symphony-of-science\/\">Snow Day Special: Warbling Scientists on the Newest Symphony of Science<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/09\/ncbi-rofl-i-still-think-listening-to-country-music-is-degrading\/\">NCBI ROFL: I Still Think Listening to Country Music Is Degrading<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <strong><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/02\/05\/sounds-of-the-universe-making-music-from-the-supernova-cassiopeia-a\/\">Sounds of the Universe: Making Music From the Supernova Cassiopeia A<\/a><br \/>\nDiscoblog: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/01\/26\/quirky-musicians-clever-iphone-apps-the-mopho-orchestra\/\">Quirky Musicians + Clever iPhone Apps = the MoPho Orchestra<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: OK Go \/ Synn Labs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5zCkJywoL9qWIiZWltcHysb3A58\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5zCkJywoL9qWIiZWltcHysb3A58\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5zCkJywoL9qWIiZWltcHysb3A58\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5zCkJywoL9qWIiZWltcHysb3A58\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/k6-ckOVmMug\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably seen a Rube Goldberg machine in a science museum sometime, and watched with amusement while balls rolled down tracks or balloons inflated, triggering other mechanical events in a complicated chain reaction. But we guarantee you&#8217;ve never seen a Rube Goldberg machine quite like this. When the rock band OK Go, justly famous for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}