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Here's an amazing vid about a slinky falling, you'll have to click trough those as it has 3 parts with questions in between :P

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Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:58 am
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Slinky now on Christmas list.

Of things to BURN.


Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:00 am
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Why D:
Slinkies are awesome

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Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:25 pm
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Because... I want to see them in a fire? Good enough?


Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:35 pm
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No, they are too awesome to let that happen.

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Answered both correctly.


Then again, I had one of them bad boys when I was younger.


Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:18 pm
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Me too, but I never knew that this would happen before seeing this.
The physics behind a slinky are awesome :P

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Me too, but I never knew that this would happen before seeing this.
The physics behind a slinky are awesome :P

One might say these slinkies

ARE SNEAKIES.


Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:47 pm
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Whats also awesome is the Mirascope (the hologram projecting mirror thing)
I recently found out that if you shine a light onto the hologram, it gets reflected in such a way by the parabolic mirrors that it appears that you are actually illuminating the hologram directly. (making it even more real :P)

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Interestingly, this is what happens to your testicles when you reach 50.

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You scare me

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