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I just pulled a couple of 1/16" roll pins out of a bag and dropped them on my work table. And here's how one of them landed:



Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket or something...

Might not be a bad idea....

Judgeing by your avatar it happens quite regular

There was an old episode of The Twilight Zone in black and white where a guy pitches a bum a nickel and it lands in the box on it's edge. After that he could read people's minds, or something like that. But sometimes I remember things that never happened and forget things that did...

This made me think of stacking golf balls. Most I could ever get before Jenga was 9.

You can stack nine golf balls? I want to see that!

I once went to but a cigarette out, and it landed like that on the floor

You can stack nine golf balls? I want to see that!

Would be a long video. lol. Need a very level, very stabile surface, and even with that, it's many tumbles of 4, 5, 6 high stacks before you get it just right. The dimples act as tiny sockets on the bottom, and create a little point at the top; the trick is getting them oriented perfectly (and having balls that give you a socket and a point exactly 180* from each other).

If Darwin was around, he´d choose the upright