The fine folks at Sunbelt Software figured the first experiment should be (what else?) the classic David Letterman five-story-building drop test. Would it bounce? Would it explode? See for yourself.
I woulda cut the mass into halves and made up busts of George Bush and Saddam Hussein. And THEN I would’ve dropped 'em.
Link won’t work directly for me. I tried this.
Ahhh…, but what would they do with $247.00 worth of bananna pudding?
Find the world’s largest comic strip…
Ok, now I’m no economist, and I enjoy a seemingly pointless experiment for one’s own amusement as much as the next intellectual, but I’m beginning to see why the software industry is crumbling.
I couldn’t get either link to work… but the answer to what to do with 50 pounds of silly putty seems obvious: embed yourself in it, and jump of a building! WHEEEE!!!
I couldn’t get either link to work… but the answer to what to do with 50 pounds of silly putty seems obvious: embed yourself in it, and jump off a building! WHEEEE!!!
If neither of the above links work, try www.w2knews.com and look under the Tech Briefing section. Sorry 'bout that.
I’ve come up with a few more ideas:
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Make a hollow shell, carve a wicked face in it and put it on my head, a la The Headless Horseman. Black cape and a black horse and I’d be all set.
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Perform covert operations in the dead of night around town and make statues of notable historic figures anatomically correct. Or maybe grossly anatomically incorrect.
Astroboy - you probably wouldn’t want to do that (embed yourself) if you’d seen the pictures or video, but if you’d like to volunteer please, PLEASE have someone make a video of it. I’m trying to put enough clips together to compete with the Camp Kill Yourself guys.
I’d make a full body cast of some one. Then fill it with the Silly Putty. Then display it in a refrigerated case. Cold would slow the oozing process. So, over the course of several days, the human figure would gradually collapse into a pile of caucasian-flesh-colored goo. I’d then take the Putty, refill the body mold and do it again.*
I realise that I’m assuming that 50 pounds of Silly Putty would have quite a volume. I’ll have to check on just how many cubic feet you’d get with 50 pounds of the stuff.
And I’ve obviously miscalculated. I’d assumed Silly Putty is much lighter than it actually is. From the pictures, it seems Silly Putty has roughly the same weight per volume as beef.
So 50 pounds would definitely NOT be enough to create a solid human sized figure.
Revised plan- Make the body cast. Using wire coat hangers, create an armature to mount the Silly Putty on. The Putty will coat the outside in a thick layer (since your average human skin weighs in at roughly 6 pounds, 50 pounds of Silly Putty would be a rather thick coating). Then mount in a refrigerated display case. At first, the figure would appear to be a standard sculpture, except for the glowing eyes (light-emitting-diodes would be best. They’re not easy to break. They produce almost no heat and they require very little electricity.). But as the figure melted, the wire structure and its bizarre innards would be exposed- flashing fiberoptic nerves, flourescent bulbs, and vials, flasks and tubing of strange bubbling fluids (I’d have to check as to what would work best here. IIRC peanut-oil has a rather low freezing point. Standard radiator fluid might work. Colored vodka should work as well.)
Wait til all the Silly Putty oozes to the floor and repeat the process. Every now and then, new innards could be used. Fer instance-use a thinner layer of skin and a urethane cast of a doll, fill the cast with Silly Putty and place inside the abdomen of the large armature. As the Silly Putty oozes from the large human, the pregnancy will be revealed. After that, the fetus cast could be enlarged and/or repositioned each time the armature is recovered, leading to a birth 9 months later.I’d make sculptures of body parts and leave them at random locations on the campus.
My mind was warped before I came here.
25 pound fake boobs :0
DocCathode - I like your style!! I have a friend who owns an alternative dance club and is always looking for new ideas for really wierd and freaky stuff to put in the lobby…
We’ll give you credit if we end up using this - promise!
Doc, it sounds like you’ve got your Halloween decorations all figured out. Nice descriptions.
More ideas:
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Shape the mass into a baby, then make up situations where you’ll have to toss your baby to safety (i.e., stuck atop a collapsing ferris wheel). Imagine the stranger’s surprise as his arms become detached at the shoulders trying to catch 50 lbs.
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Fake food. Dinner party. 'Nuff said.
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I’m thinking of some kind of slingshot crossbow device that shoots little Silly Putty balls. Introduce unwelcome intruders, freeway overpasses, stray cats; mix well and let the fun begin.
I would cover my entire body with it, enter a radioactive chamber and become…
Silly Putty Man!!!
The world’s gooiest superhero!
I would bounce, stretch, break, and pick up newsprint!
I would have to avoid heat to avoid embarassing melting, but hey, I could mold my face and body to whatever shape I wanted.
I have a start. I already own about three pounds of the stuff, bought over the course of about three years. Now that I can get it bulk, my plan will finnaly come to fruition!
Why are you all looking at me like that?
i just have to know…
What on earth is silly putty??
is it like blu-tac?
or plasticine?
More like blu-tac. But less sticky. It was created as a synthetic rubber substitute, but did not live up to expectations. The invnetor didn’t do much with it until he found that people loved to play with the stuff. The rest is pink bouncy history… http://www.sillyputty.com/history_101/history101.htm
that link pretty well covers all you need to know.
Naked Silly Putty Tag-Team Female Wrestling
Think of it – in addition to slipping and sliding in the stuff, you can pick up images of your opponent and distort them: “Hey, Louise, looks like you need to lose weight!” The taunting only adds to the fun.
Roll it up into little balls and bounce them off your opponent. If the heckling fans get too bad, throw them at the fans.
Can anyone say non-newtonian-thicksotropic-viscoelastic-fluid? Ten times fast?
Make a silly putty baby. When people ask you what the sex is you say “Boy. Watch this.” And bounce it off the floor. Ooh the look on their faces.
This one only needs one egg.
Or maybe make a silly putty nose then fill it with ketchup. Have friend rip and squeeze it off your face in front of other unsuspecting friends.
You know, I’ve only bounced and took imprints from comics with it before. I’ve relly neglected the amazing amount of uses for silly putty. I wish I had a couple of 10 year old sons right now. We’d have a blast.
P.S. That this will have some serious hairs in it.