Those crazy kids at MIT are at it again.

[edbermac]

Newly accepted students arriving Thursday for a sneak preview of the MIT campus probably expected the usual round of pep talks and tours. Little did they know they would see a rec room that defied gravity.

The upside-down den – complete with with a pool cue laid down mid-game, a cat curled up in one of two leather armchairs, and a whiskey bottle on a coffee table – was found hanging under a high archway.



http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/04/those_crazy_mit.html

And last year a building got RickRolled.

"An anonymous group of students scaled the Great Dome of the campus and installed the first seven notes of Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up."

[RandomThoughts]

1. That is cool :)

Just to banter a bit, have to say, if they were real good, they would have used pool balls that had some numerical meaning. It looks like they got 1,2,3,7,10,11

don't see any pattern there. Note that 7 ball looks a little light in photo.


They could have done pie or something with pool balls.

no wait, what would have been really cool is if they had used the pool balls to show the first few digits of the gravity constant for artificial gravity computations.


But it does look pretty cool. :)

[cloudbase]

2. I wonder if they got any of these dandy t-shirts.

The Caltech folks pranked MIT one year by having these shirts made up and put out at MIT for distribution. The front of the shirt says MIT, and the back is pictured here. Of course, the shirts were packaged so only the front could be seen. Free! Take one!

[tigereye]

4. so funny!

[gratuitous]

3. I call this composition, "Hang in there, kitty"

And if Big Jimmy Walker had stuck to this pool table, Willie "Slim" McCoy would never have come and beat him up.

[nickinSTL]

6. I don't know...

after all, in addition to being cut in about a hundred places, he was shot in a couple more - and I don't think the upside-down table would have stopped bullets, even if he couldn't have reached him for the cutting.

:evilgrin:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Amazing what the nerds at MIT and Caltech think up and execute.