10,000 Brilliant Ideas

This would be way fun to build. The basic idea is a decorative water fountain that has the illusion of perpetual motion. A simple version could be a belt with buckets that brings water up to the top of a cascading waterfall sort of thing which at the end propels a wheel that turns the belt with buckets. Hidden in the water track somewhere would be a pump that would add water to the cascade and make the whole thing possible. But it would seem like it was just going by itself. Of course you could make super elaborate versions, junkart versions, elegant elitist versions. The possibilities are *wink* endless!

"Where nerds rule!" A theme park based on Newtonian physics. Why hasn't this been done before?! Imagine a theme park with roller coasters like the mobius (the ride with one side). Bumper cars on a track with different surfaces with different frictional properties. Launch rocket where you can see the hydraulics at work. A giant rocking-boat-style ride run on a Foucault pendulum . Games where you try and shoot a target that is dropped when you pull the trigger. Or games where you get 5 minutes to answer some heinous physics question. Every ride has 1 or more learning spots where you can learn about what's making the thing fun. And of course you can break a few records with the largest air cannon, or the furthest speak to each other via concave disk thingy. You are greeted upon entering the park by an enormous and elaborate Rube Goldberg-inspired perpetual motion fountain . Really the possibilities are endless. Here's why it would work: You have two types of ...