nautiscarader:

Okay, so two things: 

1) this is an homage to one of my personal favourite shorts, where Tom constructs a Ruby Goldberg Machine, down to the patent plaque at the top of the blueprint

and 2)

THE MATH IS LEGIT 

I mean, I have no idea what lengths of diagonals of quadrilateral inscribed in a circle have to do with a boxing glove on a spring, but the fact that you remembered those equations Thomas, is worthy of an applause.