Something I've Been Wondering About...

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:13 pm

Well, I haven't really succeeded in answering the original question exactly, but this is a machine used for making solid or hollow gumballs. Unfortunately, I can't find out exactly how the hollow is made----there are some light colored drawings above the ball forming machine but I don't know what they show exactly. It does look like the cross section of a hollow ball, but I don't really see how they made it. After the production line is the ball making machine itself, along with a little man (I forget what those models are called). Then there is a closeup of someone doing something, I wish I could say it was putting air inside the balls or holding the space still, but I have no idea. I really need to get a life.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:38 am

FJohnSharp wrote:Space is always standing still. It's the rest of the stuff that's moving.

I agree.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:51 am

I'd think some kind of space grabbing tweezer is used to grasp the space wherein it's injected with a tranquilizer to keep it from flopping while the gumball is wrapped around it.

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Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:00 am

Flyingcursor wrote:I'd think some kind of space grabbing tweezer is used to grasp the space wherein it's injected with a tranquilizer to keep it from flopping while the gumball is wrapped around it.

Band Nerd - You'll catch on quick enough. Just keep posting.

Don't you think space is too large to fit in tweezers?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:11 am

That's what THEY'd like you to think. Actually you can amputate little parts of it with those special tweezers.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:44 am

I can't believe you all have missed this. Look at Cynth's diagram again. Right above the "ball forming machine" you'll see, in light but visible print, a picture of the Coke bottle ray-gun they use to stun the space prior to wrapping it in a gumballishious coating.
Coke bottle ray guns, unfortunately, emit dangerous radiation and can only be safely handled by poseable artists' figures. Hence, the multi-jointed machine operator shown.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:57 am

emmline wrote:I can't believe you all have missed this. Look at Cynth's diagram again. Right above the "ball forming machine" you'll see, in light but visible print, a picture of the Coke bottle ray-gun they use to stun the space prior to wrapping it in a gumballishious coating.
Coke bottle ray guns, unfortunately, emit dangerous radiation and can only be safely handled by poseable artists' figures. Hence, the multi-jointed machine operator shown.

thank you em! We can always count on you to find out the answers to these mysteries

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:05 am

emmline, I know I feel things have now been completely clarified. Those little coke bottles were making me crazy. Thank you!!!!!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:55 am

It appears, also, that even the ambient gravitons have been temporarily stunned, as evidenced by the gravity-defying polishing pan near the end of the assembly line.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:03 am

This diagram of the atomic structure of the gumball might explain that phenomenon:

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:17 am

nothing stands still, there is no absolute vacuum!

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:27 am

Hydrogen Atom #1: I think I've lost an electron.

Hydrogen Atom #2: Are you sure?

Hydrogen Atom #1: Yes, I'm positive.

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:29 am

good 1.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:49 pm

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Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:16 pm

Cranberry wrote:
FJohnSharp wrote:Space is always standing still. It's the rest of the stuff that's moving.
I agree.

That's silly. Being known as a "space case", I can assure you that space moves around wherever I do. "Case" in this case means it's a container-type case thing, not as in "situation"-type case or upper or lower case cases, in case you didn't know. You know, like, Peeps. Sure, they don't move in their package, but go ahead and move the package: the Peeps moved, too.

There is a fine logic to this.