Mashable - A group of creative scientist/students at Purdue University have created a Rube Goldberg machine that runs through the history of the universe starting with the Big Bang and ending with post-rapture optimism. They're calling it the "world's least efficient machine," even though it's bristling with mechanical ingenuity. Why's it so inefficient? Mainly because it takes 244 steps to water a plant.
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