I've always been fascinated with Rube Goldberg machines.  Mousetrap was my favorite board game growing up!  So of course a World-Record-setting Rube Goldberg machine caught my interest with little effort.

A team at Purdue designed and built the device, which takes 300 steps to blow up a baloon, then pop it.

Nobody said it had to do anything important!

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