As a physics teacher, I find that appalling!
Best way in the world to explain first class levers!
Oh, I agree. Also, you can teach your playmates about gravity and acceleration if you suddenly jump off. It's no fair, though, unless you scream, "32 ft/sec/sec" as you jump!
And the longer the lever, the better it works. ;-)
What I find even more amazing, thinking back on this after all these years, is that EVERYTHING we played or played with, as a child, served an extremely useful purpose in later adult life. There were lessons learned, and principles of science/physics, etc taught, that just sort of "osmotically infiltrated" into one's mind, only to be finally understood when one had formal training.
I guess the most important lesson, though, was the "360 degree spacial awareness", learned unconciously then, but at one point during the late 1960's was a very important priority for me indeed LOL......
It's too bad that today's children grow up in a nanny state, foam rubber, round, soft edge world, because some day, these selfsame children are going to have to leave what they have percieved all along as safe, and the results will be predictable. Darwin Award bets, anyone? ;-)
Keep the Faith for Freedom
Greg ( Turning electricity into RF energy for almost 40 years)