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charlottan posted:
they invented a new science called “dont
let the balloon hit the floor” scientests are being very careful and bapping that thing before it can fall jumping over the couch and shit
charlottan replied:
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hexoskeleton commented:
dramatic oversimplification of the field… each scientest can only hit it once and holding it isn’t allowed. and sometimes the floor is even lava. so the problem is a lot more complex than most laypeople might think
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The version my team invented was called “balloon ball” and the balloon had to touch a desk, wall, or cubical before it could be hit by a person again. But the important bit is that the balloon wasn’t entirely filled with air, it was partially filled with the propellant from a duster can. That made the “ball’s” path unpredictable.
There was also “balloon ball-ducken” in which there was a 2nd balloon inside the first balloon (and a sometimes a paperclip in the 2nd), but that sport was never quite ready for primetime.
Bullshit.
You’re not a scientist at all. I can spot an engineer a mile away and THIS GUY REEKS OF ENGINEER TO ME
Yeah… I switched sides and became an engineer…
I believe the technical term for that is “Keepy Uppy.”
… and they’re doing all this in a biolab with glass containers full of exotic bacteria, viruses and spores sitting on open counters and table tops.
It just wouldn’t be as much fun any other way:-).
Keepy uppy!
Is keepupology under physics, engineering, mathematics, philosophy, sociology, or spoken Finnish?
Has anyone else had the whole series of YouTube shorts about that recommended or is that just me?
that series is clearly scifi. in real world frolickology, holding the balloon or letting it come to rest in any way is instant death. it is a cool what-if scenario but it’s not hard scifi
the what
Lmao i know it’s gonna be cheese parade
At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.
*scientests
Technically each scientist can hit the balloon more than once, just not in succession.
This is the kind of nuance the layperson doesn’t typically understand.
Is this that whole immortality thing keep seeing?
balloon bop
