How On Earth Does The Dirty Dish Tray Spin Around Like That? Step By Step Guide.
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How On Earth Does The Dirty Dish Tray Spin Around Like That? Step By Step Guide.

We all use them, but do we really know what's going on back there?

Dylan Sawyer
May 06, 2019
Villanova University
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How On Earth Does The Dirty Dish Tray Spin Around Like That? Step By Step Guide.
Dylan Sawyer

We all see the rotating dish trays in the PIT and SPIT, but do we really understand how they work. In this article, I hope to explain, step by step, how the process of getting that thing to turn works. I hope you leave informed and a little more ~ w o k e ~ about the topic.

1. Buy the aardvarks.

Every year, dining services has to buy aardvarks to run on the wheels under Awakening (https://www.theodysseyonline.com/stop-the-oreo-2018). The wheels have ants in front that the aarvarks think they are running toward.They supply the power, but the power to what?

2. Power the anti-gravity machines under the dining halls.

This is gonna sound weird, but see 3. for context

3. Hire the cyclists.

So basically, we hire cyclists to ride on upside-down spin cycles that are attached to belts. These belts...

4. Turn the treadmill belts.

Yes. The cyclists power the treadmills, this may seem like an unnecessary buffer, but Villanova loves to create jobs for people who are looking! On these treadmills run the chefs. This will make sense later (step 5.)

5. Fill the spray bottles with rotting fruit juice.

Every step the chefs take on the treadmill sprays a little bit of rotting fruit juice on the dish trays on the turnstile.

6. Hire people who hate flies.

As the fruit juice is sprayed, it attracts flies. SO, we have people stand behind the tray turnstiles that can't stand flies, they swat at them and in turn, turn the trays (pun intended).

See, it's not that hard to understand. I hope now, you can look at those trays spinning around and say "wow, I'm so ~ w o k e ~ about those now! Let me know what else you want explanations to, and I will definitely answer with an article explaining it

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