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The Space Billiard "Table" would be a large sphere with a magnetic surface and a couple of holes on it (ok, maybe 6 along xyz axes). The balls look like typicals balls except made of iron. When stabbed at with a cue stick, they would roll around the surface of the "Table", and "fall" into the holes which
have slightly stronger magnetic fields. The "Table" surface would also have a bunch of rubber bumpers for the balls to angle off and complicate life a bit.
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Any magnetic force strong enough to keep iron balls stuck to the sphere when a tangential blow hits with force would prevent them from rolling very far. |
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//prevent them from rolling very far// - The magnetic force is normal (perpendicular) to the sphere and wouldn't cause rolling friction anymore than gravity does on a flat table. I mail ordered one these not realizing that 'Space' meant I needed a Zero-Gravity environment. The balls just roll down to the bottom in a cluster. |
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Er, how do you get to play this? And more importantly, where do you rest your beer? |
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So nothing like knocking asteroids around in space towards black holes, then? |
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It looks like they ARE going to do Space Golf, though. |
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I kinda like this idea, except you could play in zero gravity and have balls floating in 3 dimensions....then you would have some mental calculating to do!! |
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Make the sphere out of plexiglass and put the balls inside. You wouldn't need magnets. Have holes at the xyz axis like you said, and little spring-closed trap doors to stick the cue stick in. The balls inside would be racked into an "apostle formation" instead of a triangle.
An apostle formation is when you have one ball in the center and the other twelve packed around it, each touching the ball in the center. |
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