There is no shortage of Rube Goldberg videos online, with the high-sped kinetic journey of interconnecting objects moving momentum from a starting point to an end one a perennial favourite for music videos, car adverts, and every third YouTube account. And now the newest one to go viral online displays a number of clever mechanisms, operated at a patience-indulging glacial pace.
Designed and built by YouTuber Bob Partington, the video invites you to watch a golf ball get from one end of the machine to the other, and it is something of an endurance event – rendered watchable due to some nicely sped-up editing and time-lapse photography.
From the delay of waiting for a reservoir of molasses to build up to a handy lift offered by a turtle strolling a metre or so, they even took the time to stop and let the grass grow. It all adds up to more than six weeks of patient progression to push the ball into the hole at the end of the course. And it makes for compulsive viewing.
Check out the video below:
