Mine Bending Machine Completes 1 Turn Every 2.3 Trillion Years

[Ape Still Rules]

This machine by Arthur Ganson just blew my mind: its engine runs at 200 revolutions per minute but the last gear of its 12-gear mechanism is locked to a block of concrete. It looks still but, in reality, it is moving. You just can't see it because it completes one revolution every two trillion years.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-mind-bending-machine-completes-one-turn-every-2-3-1457516789



Just amazing to me. Here are the gear ratios after second:

Third: 1 rev/10.4 hours
Fourth: 1 rev/3.1 weeks
Fifth: 1 rev/2.98 years
Sixth: 1 rev/149 years
Seventh: 1 rev/7452 years
Eight: 1 rev/372,600 years
Ninth: 1 rev/18.6 million years
Tenth: 1 rev/932 million years
Eleventh: 1 rev/47 billion years
Twelve: 1 rev/2.3 trillion years

 

[Viktor]

Why?

 

[Partyman]

A mechanical representation of Governmental procedure.

Interesting.

 

[Stryder Kennset]

Mine Bending? What thing from your body is it bending?

 

[ZombiesRUCrazy]

so, basically, the thing will never make 1 turn.

 

[Digital Joker]

Psssh.. big deal. Should have gone to 18 gears.

 

[Videodrome]

I want to see that used as the Transmission in a Car.

WTF this car will get to the store in few hundred trillion years.

 

[BraddersTheDog]

Should have been used as a death contraption in an early Bond movie.