dropping a basketball off empire state building

Factual Questions
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Another problem is you have to get past an army of pig-human hybrid slaves to even reach the top of the Empire State Building.

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[QUOTE=Lately tho..]
Has anyone noticed that a basketball is made for bouncing, therefore it should bounce, and although the tiers may be impossible to miss, the ball will bounce from one tier to another and after clearing the last tier it will accelerate to the estimated terminal velocity, right?
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Not necessarily. It might bounce such that it actually gets stuck somewhere, or can’t clear the next tier or what have you. Interesting idea, but I don’t think it quite works.

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[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
Another problem is you have to get past an army of pig-human hybrid slaves to even reach the top of the Empire State Building.
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Pig-man!
/Seinfeld

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[Carl Denham]

[/Carl Denham]

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[QUOTE=treis]
Enough with the lame jokes.
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Oh, the thread will limp to a halt soon enough, leave them be.

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[QUOTE=Colophon]
If Chuck Norris was standing on the sidewalk at the bottom, the basketball would return to a greater height than it started from.
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If Chuck Norris was standing on the sidewalk the ball would stop 100’ from the ground hovering and quaking in fear, terrified it might hit Chuck Norris, who would in turn hit the ball so hard that all future basketballs would come out of the mold with a dent the shape of chuck norris’s fist.

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[QUOTE=Weirddave]
Oh, the thread will limp to a halt soon enough, leave them be.
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This thread is far too inteiresting to die.

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Wait, are you saying that the Empire State Building has teirs?

89

I burning your tiers.

90

Could God build a skyscraper so tiered that even he could not drop a basketball from the observation deck? The only way to be sure is to take off and drop it from orbit.

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[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
Another problem is you have to get past an army of pig-human hybrid slaves to even reach the top of the Empire State Building.
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True, and the only reason the tiers are there is so the Sonic Screwdriver doesn’t embed itself in the pavement.

Yep - even Doctor Who knows about the tiers. :stuck_out_tongue:

Si

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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
The only way to be sure is to take off and drop it from orbit.
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I did that SDMB cliche already. Go get your own. I don’t think anyone’s brought Opal into it yet…

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Did anyone unplug the basketball, first? :eek:

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[QUOTE=Ring]
King Kong didn’t bounce. Except off the tiers of course of course. But then again an ape isn’t a horse, however a horse is a horse of course of course.
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And if you tossed a horse, instead of King Kong, would we need to involve True Innocence Equine Rescue, better known as “TIER”?

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[QUOTE=Princhester]
I did that SDMB cliche already. Go get your own. I don’t think anyone’s brought Opal into it yet…
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The only way to be sure of it hitting the groud is to;

  1. Throw, don’t drop it.
  2. Take off and drop it from orbit.
  3. Hi Opal.
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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
The only way to be sure of it hitting the groud is to;

  1. Throw, don’t drop it.
  2. Take off and drop it from orbit.
  3. Hi Opal.
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    The **groud **won’t show up if Opal is there.

Si

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[QUOTE=si_blakely]
The **groud **won’t show up if Opal is there.

Si
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Well than I’ll just jump off the observation deck as punishment :o

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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
Well than I’ll just jump off the observation deck as punishment :o
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You have to jump out, really far - otherwise you’ll just land on the …
oh, nevermind.

:wink:

Si

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You won’t be satisfied until you see me lying bruised on the, oooh, at least the second tier! :stuck_out_tongue:

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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
You won’t be satisfied until you see me lying bruised on the, oooh, at least the second tier! :stuck_out_tongue:
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So, how fast would you need to be running to clear the tiers from the observation deck?

Si