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The Acme Klein Bottle (From Cliff Stoll and Family)
- tempodox 3y agoI have one of these. The fun part is, you can actually put stuff, or a liquid, in there. The entertainment begins when you try getting it out again. It's not as simple as it may seem.
- ungreased0675 3y agoDirect link: https://www.kleinbottle.com/ https://www.kleinbottle.com/
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoObligatory Numberphile episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
- em-bee 3y agoequally obligatory, for those unaware. Clifford Stoll is a regular here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CliffStoll https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CliffStoll
- neom 3y agoY2K compliance, that made me laugh. For you younger folks, this is a weird thing we lived through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
- louthy 3y agoYoung people have their own problems [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
- danesparza 3y agoThis is much closer than it used to be!
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago> For you younger folks, this is a weird thing we lived through Such an odd feeling to realize that such intense, shared experiences become completely foreign to more and more people as time goes on. It's weird how all of us are so fixed in the context of the year we were born. For example, I was born in the mid seventies, and to me the moon landing seemed like ancient history as a kid, even though it was only a couple years prior! Guess I'm just commenting on the feeling that, as I age, things feel more and more ephemeral. Like when you're young it feels a bit like "this is how the world has been and should always be", anything that has happened before is just "history", but as you get older it just feels more like I'm just a speck in the timeline of the universe. Don't know if that's a good or bad feeling.
- stavros 3y agoThere are two parts to history: things you remember living through, and ancient history.
- 082349872349872 3y agoThere are three parts to history: ancient history, things you remember living through, and what the young folk think the things you remember living through were like. (Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres: qui cum oleo coquunt, qui cum butyrum coquunt, qui cum adipe coquunt.)
- js2 3y agoI recently watched This is Us and there's an episode on the Challenger explosion. It shows kids in middle school watching the event and it was uncannily exactly as I remember the experience watching it happen in 8th grade.
- beej71 3y agoI teach at a university now, and I'm definitely crossing that threshold where people haven't seen, say, The Matrix because it came out before they were born. Dot-com. 9/11... We're getting old. Do yourself a favor and don't do the math on how many years you have until you're 60.
- j2kun 3y agoPart of what delighted me when I ordered my klein bottle was the surprise of the packaging materials. So if you want to be similarly surprised, don't look too closely at the images in this post!
- sbarre 3y agoI ordered one from Cliff 4-5 years ago and the whole process was delightful start to finish.. It looks like he has even added more stuff to the package since I did! The bottle itself is only part of the whole experience. :-)
- TexanFeller 3y agoIt put a big smile on my face from before I opened the box, I display mine alongside its packaging. I got one for my brother's family too.
- tahoeskibum 3y agoI love the packaging... it alone is worth saving and framing!
- showerst 3y agoHappy owner of an Acme Klein bottle here. I can confirm it has made me taller, more successful, and more attractive to all of the groups of people I wish to be attractive to. ... that or it's a fun conversation piece on my shelf. Perhaps both! =)
- zeta0134 3y agoWhen I had the delight of ordering my ACME Klein Bottle, Cliff was kind enough to take it on a brief (if disappointingly 3-dimentional) tour of his home, and provide much appreciated updates on the state of his garden as viewed through the manifold. It warms my heart to see folks make time for silly little twists on what, in today's age, has become a rather cold and sterile shopping experience. I have grand plans to eventually "fill" my klein bottle with a swirling potion solution, but those are stalled due to a lack of time and a lack of a suitable magnet array to get said potion swirling on its own. (The self-intersection foils attempts to use standard magnetic stirring sticks.) I'll post pictures if I succeed.
- beej71 3y agoI had the same experience. He's an inspiration to me in so many ways.
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