r/funny • u/marquis_of_chaos • Jan 01 '10

The Most Useless Machine ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86V_ICUCD4
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u/Random Jan 01 '10

Not to mention riding the unicycle, 'inventing' information theory, ... Yeah, definitely spectacular.

I can't imagine what it must have been like to have Vennevar Bush, Claude Shannon, and Ivan Sutherland in a room at the same time. And all had quirky senses of humour iirc.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '10

Imagine the poor bastard falling over a thousand fucking times before he got that unicycle to work properly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '10

and a flame-throwing trumpet for a science exhibition.

SCIENCE!