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As a long sufferer of intestinal cancer and having had HUGE, HORRIBLE THINGS shoved into every orifice, I, for one, welcome our new poop-shoot robot overlords.

But until it can also take tissue samples, it's not likely to be used much.
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That's funny. My 10 year old daughter does this too. Among others, she's made a cute little puppy with a giant Powerpuff Girl head and two dog ends sewn together that she calls "Butt-Butt."
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Notice that the ball starts higher than the board, higher than the edge of the cup. The confusion lies in assuming the board has farther to travel. The distance that should be measured is the height only, not the arc. Gravity will pull the board straight down at the same rate. It's the pivot, or the hinge that makes the board accelerate. The ball falls straight down and the cup, which started lower than the ball, ends up underneath it, so the ball ends up in the cup.

If a ball is thrown in an arc and another ball is dropped at the same height as the top of that arc at the same moment that ball reaches the top of the arc, both balls will hit the ground at the same time.

Mythbusters did this with a bullet. A bullet fired straight hit the ground at the same time as a bullet dropped from the height of the gun.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-simultaneous-bullet-release.html
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