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Really, really play pool with floating
billiards balls in a little watery pool.
Weird
currents near the pockets, with little
gates
that let the balls dop in with a splash. I
think this would be an outside fountain-
type pool game, but it would be waist
high
and would look (sort-of)
like a normal
pool table until you noticed it was full of
water and the balls were floating.
Be especially cool if it was a "black-hole"
sort of pool table with just one hole in
the center that sucked the balls down
whether you wanted it to or not...unlike
my ex-girlfriend.
I suppose if the hole was lit up and the
balls were the nine planets, you'd have a
real theme going.
Billiackey
Billiackey
If it freezes. [contracts, May 13 2005]
pool table pool
pool_20table_20pool
I knew I'd seen this somewhere. Turns out it was my own annotation. [waugsqueke, May 13 2005]
HB archives: "Air Pool"
Air_20Pool
Circa 2003. [lostdog]'s version of this idea using a cushion of air rather than water. [bristolz, May 15 2005]
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are you proposing a 'pillow" of water similar to that in air hocky tables? seems like a good start of an idea. |
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what would you use to give the balls enough vhoosh to travel across the water? sounds like explosive devices are required (or hamsters of course) |
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hmmm, trained water voles? |
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trying to dress a ball with a skirt might prove tricky. |
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My father's father's brother's son's wife's father created air hockey. I haven't seen a cent. [+] |
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Baked in the movies, Star Trek V, The Final Frontier. Featured a 'pool' table, with balls floating in water on a recessed tabletop. |
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This could also be construed as a pun, you realize. |
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How do you get over the problem of gravity (between the balls themselves, not between each ball and Earth)? When I eat Cheerios and have only a few left that float on the surface of the milk, the uniformly sized orbs tend toward each other or the edge of the bowl when they are near enough. I imagine this could either be an obstacle causing masses of "sticky" billiard balls, or an interesting challenge, unique to this version of the game. |
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How about a pool of mercury? |
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[XSarenkaX] - I think that when you propose something like this, you have to accept that the game changes - thats the beauty of it. Personally, I think this is a cool idea. Mercury could be a solution, although you need to make the balls have some ability to sink, since you dont want to recreate a pool table. You might need to re-define the idea of pockets because of the liquid overflowing.. |
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Your "Star Trek V" reference saddens
me greatly, my friend. Thank you; I'll
rent the movie (again). There is no
mind-meld which can cure my
blacken'd woe. Let us not lose
perspective and drown our hamsters
over a silly game. We shall drown our
sorrows instead with the creature
known to the locals only as "Kha-Nyou."
It is decreed. Now, play! Or the
enigmatic she-ensign known to the
locals only as
"Nurse Chapel" shall die... |
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how about molecular pool? You use an
an electron microscope to play on a tiny
pool table. |
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Use plutonium! ka-BOOM@#$%@#% |
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How about useing a pool que that sucks up water and forces it out over a short time to keep the balls rolling through the water's resistance. Like a really long turkey baster pool que. |
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<from Barcelona>¿Que?</fB> |
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//you need to make the balls have some ability to sink// |
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How about velcro (fuzzy-side) balls paired with velcro (crispy side) "sockets" attached at the appropriate areas (corners and sides) of the pool? Does wet velcro still work well? |
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I've had velcro sealing pockets on swimming trunks, so apparently. |
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Meatballs are the favorite meal of "Kha-
Nyou." |
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//How do you get over the problem of
gravity (between the balls themselves,
not between each ball and Earth)? When
I eat Cheerios and have only a few left
that float on the surface of the milk, the
uniformly sized orbs tend toward each
other or the edge of the bowl when they
are near enough.//
This is a
surface-tension effect, not a gravity
effect. The gravitational force between
two Cheerios 1inch apart is about 10e
-15 Newtons. This would accelerate
the two Cheerios towards eachother at
about 10e-12 metres per second-
squared. They would therefore collide
after about 158,113 seconds, or 43
hours, by which time they would be
soggy.
Please note that this
calculation assumes that you are eating
your cereal in a vacuum, with zero-
viscosity massless milk. I am assuming
that one Cheerio weighs 1 gram, and I
disregard relativistic effects. |
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Thanks for the info basepair. I thought the physics of Cheerios sounded a tad suspect, but then started realizing why I find it so difficult to get off the sofa. |
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