stackyFACTSIt looks like magic, but the string is not securely tied to the axle. It just loops loosely around it. When thrown hard, the axle freely spins inside that gap indefinitely, only grabbing the string to climb back up when a sudden tug disrupts the frantic momentum.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Technology →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
Processors don't just work extremely fast; they strictly obey a frantic, vibrating overlord. The clock speed of a processor dictates precisely how many…
Discover more
If you want to pull plasma out of whole blood, you cannot just filter it. Instead, laboratories strap vials of blood to a wheel and spin them at nauseating…
Discover more
Counting one-Mississippi is out; measuring quantum mechanics is in. A standard atomic clock blasts cesium-133 atoms with microwaves until they transition…
Discover more
Finding out how old a bone is requires checking its radioactive half-life. While an organism is alive, it absorbs a steady ratio of unstable Carbon-14 from…
Discover more
Sliding heavy metal across more heavy metal is a terrible idea. To fix this, humanity shoved tiny metal balls between two rings to create ball bearings.…
Discover more
Meteorologists predict heavy storms by blindly shooting radiation into the sky and waiting for a loud echo. Massive rotating dishes blast pulses of microwave…
Discover more