2009-09-26

ball, fountain, kugelbrunnen

Wonderball

Incredibly, the ball in the middle of this fountain rotates. There is no way the water has enough force to do this. Either the fountain was designed by Uri Geller, or there is some hidden mechanism causing it to move.

Update: No cheating, no Uri Geller — the 4 ton granite ball rotates by the force of the water alone. The fountain was created by Christian Tobin (Mayer) in 1985.

13 comments:

  1. que buena onda de fuente, aqui hay una asi... bueno, dice la placa que es el mismo mecanismo, pero lo cierto es que nunca tiene agua =0S
    que bonita se ve.. cuando si sirve!...

    me encanta!

    un beso

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  2. Hola es increible lo que se puede hacer con agua.
    salud

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  3. Beautiful fountain with this ball floating - nice shot.
    Have a great weekend:)

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  4. Hydraulic is fascinating. It's just simple physics. Beautiful fountain!

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  5. 4 ton granite?? you gotta be kidding me.

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  6. Great ball:)
    Beautiful shoot. I like how the light mirror in the top of the stoneball.

    Have a nice weekend.

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  7. It's amazing isn't it? As smooth as that ball is, it doesn't take much force at all to move it. There's one in Seattle I've seen before. You get to move it by hand.

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  8. J'ai vu moi aussi une boule tournante dans l'eau pareille a celle-ci... mais ou?! Au Parc de la Vilette? Je ne me rappelle plus.
    Memoria fragilis ;)
    Je ne comprends pas comment c'est possible.. La science c'est parfois de la magie noire.

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  9. Very interesting fountain, I love it, that's a clever mechanism!

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  10. fascinating stuff - not seen any before

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