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Both bubble and Jenga tower are examples of unstable systems that can persist for an unexpectedly long time.

• hn993302 23d ago
  They're good analogies. It's possible to keep a Jenga tower going forever, just extremely difficult once it reaches the point of being all middle pieces.
  • pseudohadamard 23d ago
    Also easier if you can hold up bits of it with strings from the ceiling, which is what the EPA is doing for data centers here.
  • Fargren 22d ago
    It's certainly not possible to keep a Jenga Tower growing forever. For each floor you add you need to leave at least one piece in a lower floor. Eventually you run out of pieces. It's possible to "complete" a Jenga Tower, but at that point it has to stop growing.
    • thfuran 22d ago
      But it doesn't, strictly speaking, have to stop going. The bottom floor could be removed and placed at the top.