[ale] [OT] Amazon box meets conveyor belt - 3 minutes and still no winner

[Jeff Hubbs]

  I intuit a definite variable-center-of-mass issue.

On 8/5/10 3:46 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> It looks like it's dragging against the side of the conveyor. So it 
> gets _just_ enough friction to rotate for the long lift (note the lag 
> picking up one side as it slightly travels up the belt a bit). The 
> rest is just rolling :-)
>
> Maybe they need a "minimum weight" shipping restriction :-}
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net 
> <mailto:jhubbslist at att.net>> wrote:
>
>      On 8/5/10 3:10 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>     > On 08/05/2010 02:56 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
>     >> Jim Kinney wrote:
>     >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxX1kA-nhZk
>     >> Makes you wonder what's in it.  A ball that falls to the low
>     end of the
>     >> box and causes it to do that???
>     >>
>     > I think that was my last Seagate Drive I bought from Amazon. That
>     > explains the DOA.
>     It does make one wonder, doesn't it?  Clearly a case of
>     self-organizing
>     behavior in the wild.
>
>     - Jeff
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