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How gas pumps know when to turn themselves off


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Don't tell me you haven't wondered this yourself. What a clever piece of technology that we all take for granted.


How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5


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I'm a sucker for learning how things are made, and this video certainly changed my impression of how ski lifts are installed.

Which, admittedly, made me realize that I even had an impression of of how ski lifts are installed.

Anyway, the ingenuity of this whole operation just made me smile. It made me think of Gus and Charlee working with those new Lego blocks at the Children's Museum last weekend. We humans really like building things, don't we?