Roll on the 20th June

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@exxcomm0n 

Even though you think the twin towers were detroyed by our own government, I still like you. You are just wrong about that one thing... ha ha.. 

Oh EVER so many more things I'm wrong about according to some!
Some posted theorem allude to the fact of my existence being "wrong".

Anyway, I have studied Batman's vids over and over and over and I really think he has something different. Study Video 8 very closely. I might be wrong but it sure looks like the magnet is leaving the array very fast.

Truth be told, I stopped checking his vids when he displayed this tendency NOT to post links (BATMAN - Preferably directly to the lastest vid when you hawk it please!) as I am a slothful bastige and feel it too much work to bookmark or hunt up the URL again (I always think it's www.batenergy.com).

But since you cited it, I looked it up.

From what I saw, it never goes through the arrays completely (leaving), and is captured by his hand and reset each time not allowing us to see if there is a wall or not (and still slower than mine).

MANY have been the EDIT (freudian slip!) pot post asking him NOT to catch the roller, yet still it persists.

And it starts from a stand still. I cannot reproduce this. I have 80 magnets - 1.5" x .5" cylinder and I have them in an array similar to his....well let's see if I can do a video here...
I just setup an account on youtube. Sorry the quality of this first video is so bad...but I was just playing around to see if I could do one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDAnXJa6QQ4
From the video, you can see that I am getting a different result than BATMAN. It has to be the orientation of the magnets at the end of the array. Yes, I have tried quite a few different configurations for many hours. This is just a quick video.
Freddy

Dude,

1st off, shorten your arrays by 1/2 to stop "slingshotting" to the sides.

2nd, invest in some plexi or polycarbonate to replace your top plate.
If you can afford it (which it would seem from your BIG and somewhat 'spensive mags), get a few different thicknesses.

3rd, You are doing the greatest thing that anyone in this thread can.
You're testing! Your taking no one persons word for things and trying stuff!

That's what keeps the thread alive and people interested.

Discovery.


If I may propose a test or 2 please (since I will not be in a testing/filming environment until tomorrow)?

Build an array track starting wide, but 3/4 starting size by 1/2 track length, and only 2 mags wide for the last 1/4 to finish (since you invested time in building a slotted track, I hope the reconfiguration can happen quickly).

Get that big bad honkin roller that I'm now jealous of, and try it from each way (thick to thin, thin to thick).
Also, later if you invest in the different thicknesses, see what varying that will do.

Add spacers to heighten the track surface from the array.

Nearly lastly (BE CAREFUL PLEASE), try catching that roller like batman does, but you might want to wait for the height adjustment 1st since your vid seems to show a decent accrual of momentum using ?1/2? in. particle board?
Or use a smaller gauge roller like BM's.

Lastly, Have fun!

[shakman]

No, I saw you were quoting him.

I just thought you were taking his words and making them your own to prove a point.

My mistake.

-PurePower

@PP

No, you were skimming again, you didn't bother to read the post properly.

We are getting along so nicely, don't start acting like Bill Nye again (who makes me want to reach through the screen every time he comes on TV). You won't make any friends here.

@Skeptics

For any skeptics here who want to go in to bat for Bill Nye, please watch some of his interviews first. It's blatantly apparent each time that he has made up his own mind before any debate and would sooner say hundreds of people's eyes deceieved them and they somehow simultaneously managed to read the time wrong than something amazing happened. He uses mass-hysteria as a more likely scenario than actual eye witness accounts of an extra-ordinary event and doesn't ever take a backward step. If I ever here that guy say "it's a big leap" to people way more educated and intelligent than himself ever again I will board a plane to the U.S. to bitch slap the man. He is doing skeptics everywhere a disservice by even appearing on TV. Bill the Science Guy? More like Bill the Schmuck.

shakman

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@Skeptics

For any skeptics here who want to go in to bat for Bill Nye, please watch some of his interviews first. It's blatantly apparent each time that he has made up his own mind before any debate and would sooner say hundreds of people's eyes deceieved them and they somehow simultaneously managed to read the time wrong than something amazing happened. He uses mass-hysteria as a more likely scenario than actual eye witness accounts of an extra-ordinary event and doesn't ever take a backward step. If I ever here that guy say "it's a big leap" to people way more educated and intelligent than himself ever again I will board a plane to the U.S. to bitch slap the man. He is doing skeptics everywhere a disservice by even appearing on TV. Bill the Science Guy? More like Bill the Schmuck.
shakman

Anathema!

How dare you bring up that slacker!

Ya want educational science tv, check out Beakman's World (www.beakmansworldtv.com).
Nothing like a scentist that looks like he walked out of Eraserhead, a reclitant man in a rat suit (or rat in a man suit), and a quirky female accomplice that could sometimes been seen as young enough to make a pass at for the average Sat. morning  male cartoon show viewer!

Not preachy, precocious!
Seemed to treat the viewer as having a right bit more capability of critical thinking and humor too.

BTW.....It is my lifelong wish to be able to reduce Barney into a bloody tail stump by using him as a club to smash tele-tubbies into greasy wet spots (or perhaps just their creators) also!

See what the average entertainment level of a stoner is?

I still finger paint too.

[gwhy!]

ou182

would that be the wall it crashes through in the loop video? obviously something you were unable to do when you discovered this 3 years ago

I'm With ou182 on this I also done it and got it to fall out of the top of the loop and it was no biggy, done it about 4 months ago (not bad considering I have only been playing with mags for 7 months) I also didn't video it because I could see it was nothing special or nothing new. And have a guess what it was with the same array that you claim you discovered but I done it before you, but I'm not so full of myself and claiming its mine. Archer your such a Muppet.

Just stop winding peeps up and get on with YOUR nothing new wheel.

You just showed how little you know about mag arrays and what they are capable of in your up/over and out vid woo the excitement in your voice made it clear to me that you no next to nothing about mags and that you were (are) on a learning curve.

[yoyo]

lafin hard milk comin outta my nose

that last video of the wheel was a joke glad i kept my 2000 and dont buy no plans