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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. Behold the power of /. by Lehk228 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    wow, if they are regular /. readers why did they put the story up on a server that canno handle the load?

    anyways, it sounds pretty cool to watch, except that i can't get the video or pics off the site due to the /. effect. I wonder, were the balls uniform or were large and small mixed, a heterogenious drop would be very interesting, especially if dropped in waves (groups) so that balls moving down would meet balls on their initial bounce. Also dropping uniform sets of balls on differen shaped objects would be nice

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  2. Liars! by barfy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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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