This is a perfect example of why science is always useful. Without the knowledge of the results, it would be easy to point and laugh at the start of this. You can almost see the anti science headlines. "Boffins spend TWO MILLION of YOUR TAX to make petunias PURPLE".
They really do their best to avoid words like debt and loan. Those are serious words, this is just a bit of fun! Buy now pay later! 3 easy installments!
Its technically the same as renting, but there's a lot of stupid historical reasons that make it awkward. You could be a leaseholder with a 1000 year contract costing a few pennies per year. Which makes you, for all intents and purposes, an owner of the property.
It's sometimes called an overbalanced wheel, an early perpetual motion device. The idea is that there's more weights on the right side than the left side, so the wheel will turn clockwise. The weights are on rods that fall to the right as the wheel turns, so there's always going to be more weights on the right. So the wheel turns forever. Free power woohoo!
The reality is that the balls on the left are further away from the axle. Futher from the axle = greater torque. Surprise surprise it all cancels out and the wheel eventually comes to rest.
I always wondered what the cutoff would be for apes/humans going to heaven. Apes aren't allowed, humans are allowed. At one point in evolution, a non-heaven-compatible creature gave birth to a heaven creature. That poor proto-human, living in heaven without parents and probably unable to speak. They wouldn't be able to sing along to the Ronnie James Dio concerts up there 😔
This is a perfect example of why science is always useful. Without the knowledge of the results, it would be easy to point and laugh at the start of this. You can almost see the anti science headlines. "Boffins spend TWO MILLION of YOUR TAX to make petunias PURPLE".