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by agumonkey 2992 days ago
We used to weigh the nose up too, but without thinking about center of gravity and oscillation. We were 6yo it wasn't very clear what was going on for us even though I find it interesting that:

- we could iterate hundreds of time with joy - it seems like a stupid kid thing but it's quite subtle and technical, if approached so

Kids have this pseudo researcher mindset that only lacks a few symbolic notions to really leap across toying to understanding.