Purdue team smashes Rube Goldberg world record

The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own Guinness world record for largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 300-step behemoth that flawlessly accomplished the simple task of blowing up and popping a balloon.
The team spent more than 5,000 hours constructing the machine that accomplished every task ever assigned in the competition's 25-year history, including peeling an apple, juicing an orange, toasting bread, making a hamburger, changing a light bulb, loading a CD and sharpening a pencil.
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[bigredginganinja]

The worlds most expensive rube golberg machine and they spend 50cents on a potato camera

[jbear0000]

All that work and the video is only 2:17 long, it moves too fast from one step to another, is completely unclear how each step triggers the next step and has a bunch of guys hooting in the background.

[Charlie Clark]

The red bull and the ok go ones are probably bigger then this.

[Miguel Ledesma]

zombie nation

[TheDrB]

One orange is left uncrushed, it is not flawless...

[42oomfoofoo]

what was the song that it started to play?

[Thekra Al-Hazmi]

AWESOMENESS!! 

[ir1shfolktale]

Theyre sorry that they dont live up to your standards.

[squidface63]

I want that to be what happens when i flip the lightswitch

[Rewxarx]

"please keep watching this"

*walks in front of camera*

-.-

[DCainnorthwoods]

... that was -starts tearing up- beautiful.

[Oxymoron808]

Meanwhile in drought ridden africa...