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oops ´use´ in the title should have been useful.

I wonder hat would happen if you used a liquid metal plate and ball, then tested it in a vacuum?

Check this out:
http://www.liquidmetal.com/

i found the video on google video too.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9530&hl=en

This is the jam i was refering to.

Ive done a fair bit of analysis on this machine.

It by design will jam. If you have a look at the schematics and think about it you will see the verticle bars will stop it from going up or down.

When I think boasts like a peacoks tail, I think of old bellows. Maybe bellows like a peacoks tail. Thus it could use air to help drive something. Since that is not a weight or a spring etc etc.

Doh I didn't see you said randomly, well I was the 100,000 anyway :/

Woohoo I win :)

Looks Like I may have a new book to read!

I can remeber playing with parametric ossicaltions. I think there is web applet out there somewhere of a pendulum. I was able to the applet to mainting a tending to infinite pendulum swing. Even with damping forces. (resistance to swing or something you may power). I used small vertical oscialltion ...