dropping a basketball off empire state building

Factual Questions
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[QUOTE=brad_d]
A basketball is pretty big, and really not that heavy; you would not expect it to have a terminal speed as high as a human, for example.
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So would a human being thrown off the ESB bounce or pop?

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How fast is a basketball going when dribbled by a pro athlete?

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[QUOTE=SaintCad]
So would a human being thrown off the ESB bounce or pop?
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They’d go splat.

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[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq]
The problem is that it is on a conveyor belt that goes as fast as it does. This precludes it from moving at all; it simply hangs in midair.

Unless you choose Door #2. :stuck_out_tongue:
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Okay, suppose you dropped a basketball into the Marianas Trench?

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Then the airplane would not be able to take off because it would be underwater at the same time. And besides, the Marianas don’t play in the NBA - they’re in a Polynesian league, I believe. Incidentally, this does prove the existence of crop circles, however.

46

What does Extra Special Bitter have to do with anything?

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If you want the basketball to miss the tiers of the building you take Shaq up to the top, tell him to throw that ball onto the tier and tell him that it is considered a free throw. :smiley:

I think a more interesting question would be what happens to a golf ball or a dart.

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[QUOTE=Captain Carrot]
Right, but that’s a human force, not terminal velocity. Many pitchers can get fastballs over 100 mph (or so I’ve heard), but that’s irrelevant; the issue here is how fast gravity will make the basketball go.
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The issue here isn’t making the basketball go anywhere. The basketball has to want to go, if it will ever reach self-empowerment and peace.

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Throw the ball down from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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An African or European basketball?

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Are African or Eurpoean basketballs magically able to avoid the tiered levels of the ESB?

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[QUOTE=Philster]
Are African or Eurpoean basketballs magically able to avoid the tiered levels of the ESB?
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For that, you are you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.

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[QUOTE=Ludovic]
Wait. You couldn’t just drop a basketball from the empire state building: it’s tiered.
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So, you’re saying it will all end in tiers?

mm

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Wait a minute - you couldn’t drop a basketball from the top of the Empire State Building. First of all, there are tiers that would keep the ball from hitting the ground. Didn’t anyone think of that? :smack:

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Enough with the lame jokes.

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[QUOTE=treis]
Enough with the lame jokes.
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You were close mamboman, it seems that it all ends in treis.

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[QUOTE=CC]
Wait a minute - you couldn’t drop a basketball from the top of the Empire State Building. First of all, there are tiers that would keep the ball from hitting the ground. Didn’t anyone think of that? :smack:
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Only if you forget to unplug it first!!

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[QUOTE=treis]
Enough with the lame jokes.
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You have your enough with your lame jokes? I prefer my enough on the side, and lame jokes as a main.

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Gry.

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Has anyone brought up the tiers yet?