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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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Clean up wasn't too bad. We had lots of people to help, and most of the balls were contained on the ground floor, all the doors were closed so they had no where to go. What was funny was the first time we did a test drop, we didn't cover the floor with paper. Seeing as how the bouncy balls were kind of waxy, it waxed the floor really well. :D
The actual event was way cool, just the fact that we're doing something that a lot of people would be like, "What's the point", was worth it enough. Besides seeing all the balls hit the ground and then shoot every which way was really cool. If you get the chance look at the pictures of how many people showed up. Bond(age) hall had every balcony packed with people, which was way cool.
Chamrin
117documentarypremium1.mov.torrent hosted by Head Hunter's tracker (it's named ball drop on his page)
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That's neat. But why don't we actually use it?
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These ought to start working as soon as nettobert.physics.wwu.edu comes back online.
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