a really big ball of silly putty!

[tundra]

My freshman year of college a guy decided to drop 100 lbs from the roof of
our engineering building.  I still have 2 lbs of it somewhere.

In 1989 there was the great Silly Putty drop here at Alfred University.  A
graduate student decided to do an experiment to settle the question of what
would happen to a ball of Silly Putty if dropped from a certain height.
Would the putty bounce, break, or splatter?  An egg of Silly Putty that
weighed 100 pounds was dropped from the roof of McMahon Engineering
Building.  This drew a crowd all wondering what was going to happen.  When
it was dropped, the ball bounced about 8 feet into the air, returned to
Earth, and shattered on the second impact.

-Brett

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> hartmann
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> Subject: RE: a really big ball of silly putty!
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>
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, derek.cf.PEGRITZ wrote:
>
> > > my husband at some point decided that buying silly putty
> > > directly from dow chemical company was a great idea....
> >
> > That has *got* to be the most retarded thing I've ever heard
> of....I mean,
> > that's so retarded I honestly can't believe someone beat ME to
> the punch in
> > doing it!
>
> heh.  yah, i laughed good and hard when he explained what the big box
> in the utility closet of our first apartment was.  then he explained
> how he's made the purchase price over several times by selling off 1lb
> pieces around his office, and i stopped laughing and though, "damn,
> the boy makes money in the weirdest schemes."
>
> but in the past year, he's tapped out his immediate market and still
> has TWENTY POUNDS leftover.
>
> > Hmmm....With that amount of Silly Putty, I bet I could "carbon-copy" an
> > entire *person* just like I would a panel from Gasoline Alley
> in the Sunday
> > Funnies.
>
> i just keep thinking about how far it would stretch or how high it
> would bounce.  i mean, if i dropped that thing off the space needle it
> might land in idaho...
>
>
> deeann mikula hartmann
>
> "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
>    --ludwig wittgenstein, tractatus logico-hilosophicus
>
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