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Superball!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-you-don't-learn-in-physics-class dept.

Ben from Western writes "The Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University dropped 4000+ balls 70 feet through one of our buildings. We took numerous pictures and filmed numerous videos including: from the side on the bottom watching the balls hit the ground, from the top watching the balls drop, from the bottom looking straight up as the balls dropped... Most of our club members are slashdot readers so we hope the general audience of slashdot will enjoy this as well."

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  1. Bah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Drop 4000+ Bowling balls and I'll watch.

  2. Instant +5 Funny comment by neonstz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Putting several hundred megs of video online and then posting it on slashdot has never been a good idea.

    1. Re:Instant +5 Funny comment by WesG · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well at least he had the balls to post it... :-)

    2. Re:Instant +5 Funny comment by joe_bruin · · Score: 5, Funny

      they may have a lot of balls at Western Washington University, but apparently they're a little short in the fat pipe department.

    3. Re:Instant +5 Funny comment by Aliencow · · Score: 3, Funny

      I bet if you try to email them now it will bounce...

  3. Cleanup? by Bob+Vila's+Hammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Not it!"

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  4. slashdot readers? by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they were slashdot readers why would they intentionally slashdot themselves?

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    1. Re:slashdot readers? by Liselle · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is presuming you can get close enough to the webserver without needed a hazard suit and a commercial-grade fire extinguisher.

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  5. Won't someone think of the bandwidth by dswensen · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, 135 MB video files ready to download...

    Trying to use up the remainder of that research grant I see.

  6. Thousand of hits by Liselle · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope some of you folks in the club are also taking pictures of your webserver from different angles, as thousands of people hit it. I've gotten faster transfer rates using two cans and a string. Poor thing. :D

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  7. Feel the Burn by AttillaTheNun · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Most of our club members are slashdot readers so we hope the general audience of slashdot will enjoy this as well."

    Then you know what to expect next. Feel the burn of a good server slashdotting.

  8. Hope your not running a mailserver on the same box by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because mail would bounce quicker than you balls.

  9. Re:Instant +6 Funny comeback by jpm242 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Putting several hundred megs of video online and then posting it on slashdot has never been a good idea. Well, its a better idea than spending your tuition money on 4000 rubber balls.

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  10. Time to upgrade? by tarquin_fim_bim · · Score: 3, Funny

    This page should be viewed in Internet Explorer with a screen resolution of at least 1024x768 for optimal viewing.

    That's just about all I can see, my OS browser must really inferior.

  11. /.'d by ee_moss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Boy, that site was taken off faster than a prom dress.

    1. Re:/.'d by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "than a prom dress..."

      What's sad is that I initially read that as PROM... as in P-ROM, as in Programmable ROM.

      *sigh* I need a social life....

    2. Re:/.'d by ee_moss · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... not that many of us /.'ers would know first-hand how fast that would be

  12. Slashdotted by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well well. Someone really dropped the ball.

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  13. The Late Show by porp · · Score: 3, Funny

    David Letterman, eat your heart out.

    porp

  14. gravity AND chaos?! by milktoastman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yours is the Gravity and Chaos club? Isn't that rather specific? I mean, do they actually have groupies for that sort of thing?

  15. what this is really about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    "Our geeky club only has 3916 hits since May. We're trying to increase that by atleast a whole factor. Watch us drop a bunch of balls! We're slashdot loners, so we hope that a good slashdotting will boost our self esteem."

  16. Tomorrow's Story... by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University dropped 4000+ connections every 70 milliseconds through one of our servers. We took numerous pictures and filmed numerous videos including: from the server logs watching the server hit the ground, from telnet watching the server drop, from http looking straight up as the server dropped..."

    I'm thinking they can drop the "Gravity and" part of their name now. The other half, they've definitely earned. That they're almost all slashdot readers kind of implies this chaos was deliberately staged for the above "tomorrow's story".

  17. Re:Basketball + Superball = WOW by X_Bones · · Score: 4, Funny

    yep... did this once in my dorm, dropped the basketball+superball onto a hard tile floor. The superball rocketed sideways and hit my roommate right in the middle of the forehead; he damn near choked on the hot dog he was eating. Funniest thing I've ever seen...

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  18. WARNING -- SPOILER! by CHaN_316 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just saw the movie, and it was amazing! The 4000 balls were let go, and they fell, and they bounced all around. I didn't expect that ending...it was pretty cool! Although, character development wasn't that great... and one could argue this was mostly an action flick, but whatever, I still liked it.

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  19. RTFA? by GQuon · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would only gain statistics about people who actually RTFA. Could hardly include ALL slashdotters?

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