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This is an excerpt from the 30 minute long Rube Goldberg machine video The Way Things Go, as submitted to YouTube by the people who now own the rights to distribute it. Who knew there were so many ways to use fire to continue a chain reaction?
After doing some Googling, it isn't necessarily the same molecules that are burning and releasing oxygen. If you mix something that's going to burn with Sodium Chlorate, NaClO3, then 2 NaClO3 + heat --> 2 NaCl + 3 O2.
However, what makes this a Goldberg machine? If that was the end (as it seemed to be), it never performed a 'simple task in a complex/extravagant way', which is how I always heard Goldberg machines explained.
Anyway, still gets a vote.
The bucket at the end looked like a gremlin was thrown in it.
"Didn't like that it wasn't all one take, and didn't like that it wasn't true to the spirit of a Rube Goldberg machine (it didn't complete a simple task, e.g., filling a glass of water or sharpening a pencil). Still really cool though."
" too many edits."
Get some culture ya bastards. It's art, not a physics experiment, and it is the finest example of its kind.