red_giant [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days agoA comically large tennis ball is dropped on your head. You earn $10,000 per kilogram of tennis ball multiplied by the height in meters of the fall. How large a tennis ball and how high do you choose?message-squaremessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareA comically large tennis ball is dropped on your head. You earn $10,000 per kilogram of tennis ball multiplied by the height in meters of the fall. How large a tennis ball and how high do you choose?red_giant [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square38linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarerobot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·7 days ago2x normal size and from low orbit. either i did my napkin math right and terminal velocity won’t even concuss me, or i’ll be dead and not have anything to worry about.
minus-squareQuillcrestFalconer [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·7 days agoBall gets burned on re-entry
minus-squarerobot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days agodepends on the terminal velocity of a fuzzy and sightly deformed sphere
minus-squareWhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 days ago1g tennis ball from high orbit 10000*36000000/1000 = thanks for the money, doofus
minus-squaremrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 days ago2x normal size is hardly comical
minus-squarerobot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 days agoit would be funny if it clogged a pitching machine or someone tried to cram it into a tube
2x normal size and from low orbit. either i did my napkin math right and terminal velocity won’t even concuss me, or i’ll be dead and not have anything to worry about.
Ball gets burned on re-entry
depends on the terminal velocity of a fuzzy and sightly deformed sphere
1g tennis ball from high orbit
10000*36000000/1000 = thanks for the money, doofus
2x normal size is hardly comical
it would be funny if it clogged a pitching machine or someone tried to cram it into a tube