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File:   69.JPG     Desc:   they have little pegs set up and the pendulum can tell the time based on which pegs are knocked over.


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Name: km
Time: 01:55 PM
Date: February 02, 2008
Comment:     Hmm..I don't get this one. And where are the cadavers on display?


Name: andrew
Time: 02:14 PM
Date: February 02, 2008
Comment:     dude! yeah, there's one like this in washington's national history museum. the pendulum actually is stationary, it's the Earth that is moving


Name: dk
Time: 06:02 PM
Date: February 02, 2008
Comment:     yup, so as the earth turns under the pendulum, the pins get knocked over one by one, and because the earth spins at a constant speed, the same pins get knocked over at the same time each day, so you can tell what time it is!


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