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A wonderful site. Thanks for the reminder 
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And the point of that is...?
Stupid.
In fact not just stupid, but lame. They had one of the magnets around the wrong way. Amateur hour.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think Ian Cutress (of Anandtech)[^] has it figured out: "This is how Will it Blend & Slow Mo Guys started - get the name out, have fun, make money later. Both are happily rolling in it now"
Still, those poor magnets. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yeah, but Will it Blend started from them actually testing their blenders by demolishing 4x2s and then the guys deciding that throwing a video of it on YouTube would be fun and interesting. There is a point to the videos which is that the blenders are apparently indestructible. Sure, they bait you by blending things you never want to see blended, but the point gets made.
Crushing a watch between two magnets? Lots of video views but not clever or demonstrating a point.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Lots of video views but not clever or demonstrating a point.
That's pretty much all of YouTube, isn't it? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Chris Maunder wrote: but not clever or demonstrating a point
It must be art then, not science.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's like it was shown in the movie 'Artificial Intelligence'. They destroyed robots in most horrible way possible in a stadium full of people.
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Agreed.
If you are going to destroy something expensive for entertainment (and profit, probably) then do it properly!
A 30T forming press or something to squash the case, not just the easy-to-smash display...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Morons on a high scale.
People who take joy at destroying stuff for the sake of destroying stuff "just because" are only morons.
There is no value at all in this experiment.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: People who take joy at destroying stuff for the sake of destroying stuff "just because" are only morons.
I always referred to people who like to destroy stuff for fun as "men." 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Men/Women are people who construct things for fun.
Morons (including men and women) are people who destroy things just for the sake of destruction.
I'd rather be phishing!
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You had a sad childhood. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Do not confuse the joy of reckless "disassembling" things to understand how they work and just hammering things to break them.
Not really, there was a lot of things to destroy in order to build and construct new things.
I'd rather be phishing!
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What climbed up your ass?
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Perhaps the notion that in order to be called a "man" one must destroy things, and perhaps enjoy that destruction, for no reason other than the destruction itself?
It is their money, and they're free to do with it what they will, even unto destroying it.
And I am free to call them complete and utter morons for doing so.
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I don't disagree you're free to state your opinion, but you're so assertive with it, almost to the point of aggression, that I'm wondering if Steve Jobs touched you when you were a kid.
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I've had great fun with my kids and fire-crackers and magnifying glasses. "Let's see what happens if..." Sometimes there is great joy derived in a bit of senseless destruction. Mind you, my price tag for the article being destroyed is usually $1.49 or less.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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I LOVE IT, Rainbows 
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Shirley it's appropriate use for any apple tech.
veni bibi saltavi
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The magnets were not destroyed so what valuable technology was abused?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I dare you to try that line of reasoning in a family law court.
I double-dare ya in fact. 
That goes double when the case involves a little kid and an adult...
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Pause about 2;15 in. You can see part of the top edge of the right magnet shattered off and is stuck to the top right and bottom left corners of the left magnet.
Neodymium magnets are brittle and tend to crack/spall when abused.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"...waging all things in the balance..." -- shouldn't that be "weighing"? 
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