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I read somewhere that a good rubber ball will bounce back two thirds of the drop height. The original plan was to go to the top of a tall building, drop the ball then run down stairs to two thirds of the height to see if you could catch the ball on the way back
BUT now all I want to do is to get
one of those massive rubber band balls (as made famous by competing farmers somewhere in US), hang it from the bottom of a hot air balloon (a big one, or a chinook) take it a mile high, and cut the rope. I had envisaged doing it over an old airfield.
Oh, and film it for repeat viewings.
Rubber Band Ball story (probably not [Snoyes]'s)
http://www.walesonl...l&objectid=12779931
[phundug, Nov 13 2008]
world's biggest rubber band launch
http://www.videosif...Rubber-Band-Be-Shot
the result will surprise you [samosa_pirate, Nov 14 2008]
[link]
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//The original plan was to go to the top of a tall building, drop the ball then run down stairs to two thirds of the height to see if you could catch the ball on the way back//
Better yet to make a carefully timed bungee leap, so that the bottom of the leap coincides with the top of the bounce. |
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// the bottom of the leap coincides with the top of the bounce. // |
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And bring a paper bag, to carry your teeth home afterwards ..... |
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Ripley's Believe it or Not did just that (they used a plane, rather than a balloon or helicopter). The ball exploded on impact. When they found the crater some minutes later, many of the chunks of rubber band were still vibrating. |
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How do you add rubber bands to a ball that's already two feet in diameter? Do you make a rubber band chain and wrap it around and then tie a knot? |
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anything involving rubber bands gets (+). The more the better. Even better to have thousands in a ball. |
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//How do you add rubber bands to a ball that's already two
feet in diameter?// |
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They use giant rubber bands. They're used for holding large
items together in shipping. |
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You can only drop it from so high before the law of diminishing returns takes effect. (aside - who the hell passed that law? Let us all join in the effort to repeal it!) |
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The ball reaches terminal velocity after it has been falling a while and then any higher does not make it bounce any further higher. |
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Or you drop it in vaccuum. |
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How long's that then? About the time it takes to drink a cup of tea? |
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Snoyes has exactly the same story as in the link, i think. |
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Yeah, it's baked. Wish I'd seen it. If they had done it from a balloon they could have taken it up a little bit, dropped it and repeated higher and higher until disintegration. |
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