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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. Bittorrent ?? by jehreg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Special kudos to the first that makes a bittorrent available of the 117documentarypremium2.mov file.

  2. Eeeeek mirror! by Daath · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Somebody put up a .torrent ! Now! :) This I want to see!

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  3. Re:slashdot readers? by jafiwam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, yeah... but rather it will be small subset of the Slashdot readership as the vast majority don't bother to read the linked article anyway...

  4. Logistics by BrianWCarver · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where do you buy 4000+ SuperBalls and what does it cost?

    Imagining these guys sitting around and thinking this up is not so hard:

    "Dude. What if we dropped like a gillion SuperBalls at once."
    "Yeah. That would rock."

    But that they then followed through and figured out how to pull this off is much more impressive.

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