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  2. SkyDoesMinecraft - Wikipedia

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    In July 2017, Dahlberg announced in two videos that they were retiring from making Minecraft content, saying that they had become unhappy with the state of the game's community over the past couple of years and that they were no longer comfortable making family-friendly content.

  3. Markus Persson - Wikipedia

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    Persson began developing video games at an early age. His commercial success began after he published an early version of Minecraft in 2009. Prior to the game's official retail release in 2011, it had sold over ten million copies. After this point Persson stood down as the lead designer and transferred his creative authority to Jens Bergensten ...

  4. Bubbleator - Wikipedia

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    The Bubbleator was a large, bubble-shaped hydraulic elevator with transparent acrylic glass walls operated from an elevated chair built for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle. These transparent walls gave the illusion of looking through an actual 'soap bubble' by refracting light to obtain a rainbow-like effect for the riders inside.

  5. Tips & Tricks: How to Play Bubble Town (and Other Bubble ...

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    There are five different powerups in Bubble Town that you can acquire by knocking them down from the top (they will automatically activate with the next shot): . Sureshot - gives you an aiming ...

  6. Supercavitation - Wikipedia

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    If the bubble is not long enough to encompass the object, especially at slower speeds, the bubble can be enlarged and extended by injecting high-pressure gas near the object's nose. [ 1 ] The very high speed required for supercavitation can be temporarily reached by underwater-fired projectiles and projectiles entering water.

  7. Elevator paradox - Wikipedia

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    The elevator paradox is a paradox first noted by Marvin Stern and George Gamow, physicists who had offices on different floors of a multi-story building. Gamow, who had an office near the bottom of the building noticed that the first elevator to stop at his floor was most often going down, while Stern, who had an office near the top, noticed that the first elevator to stop at his floor was ...

  8. Inclined elevator - Wikipedia

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    A car is either winched up to the station on the top of the incline where the cable is collected on a winch drum. Alternatively a car is balanced by a counterweight moving along the track in the opposite direction, quite similar to an ordinary lift. [3] [4] Unlike a standard elevator, it can go up tilted grades. It can be used for both ...

  9. Escalator - Wikipedia

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    Parallel (up and down escalators adjacent or nearby, often seen in perpendicular areas, metro stations and multilevel movie theaters); Multiple parallel (banks of more than one escalator going in the same direction parallel to banks going the other direction);