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To: SG who wrote (101213)	2/12/2009 12:51:08 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

<<over time, every complex society has collapsed.>> This view is what underlies use of the Rube Goldberg analogy to NOW. i have used this analogy so oft, i figure i'd better take in account my age and realize Rube Goldberg is not known by all the youth amongst us:) This is Rube Goldbergism in a nutshell:) "Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg (4 July 1883 – 7 December 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning. He is best known for his series of popular cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines, complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society is named in his honor. In addition, there are several contests around the world known as Rube Goldberg contests which challenge high school students to make a complex machine to perform a simple task." en.wikipedia.org