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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012

To see what this looks like from under a glass table, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9WUaB...

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  • TheoreticalIdeation

    "If you're watching on a mobile device.."

    Many thanks for making considerations for the mobile crowd! :)

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  • MrOnTheCheap

    I saw two big boobs

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  • mactsk

    it makes one revolution in either axis, mutch like the moon and the earth

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  • KiyaWarrior

    the rotation of the tube + it spinning results in it only showing the 0 side. its kinda like the pull of gravity + the speed of a satalite going around the earth canceling it out from leaving orbit or crashing into the earth.

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  • zerokoolz11

    Youll gonna see the letter your that u put your finger on when you spin,because the end of the pipe os long than its center so your eye cant catch because its longer and faster than the center, its like bringing a long rope and tie one of it end with an flash light your gonna see a big light circle but u can stil see the center caz its kind fixed

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  • pianoisthebest22

    great thing for my 13th birthday... though i just saw it

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  • th0m3s100

    because the two seperate spins (vertical spin of the tube itself and the spin of the tube on the table) are equal....?

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  • Hoschi0913

    i think ,the side you press on to make it spin,spins slower then the otherside with the other letter,since the eye only catches a max of 24-25 frames a second,the other faster side exceeds this,so therefore it becomes "invisible"

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  • BombNeon

    Xxxx

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  • TheCCrunner98

    you're good

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  • Zachary G.

    I think it's because the side he started with goes faster

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  • Ramy Said

    Neither

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