20,000 Bouncy Balls Dropped From A Helicopter

20,000 bouncy balls dropped from a helicopter - for science | The Salt Lake Tribune

Oh man, you gotta love this stuff. If ever anything would make my geeky little heart, err, face smile, it's a story such as this. Some college science geeks put together this little demonstration to show some blah, blah, blah science stuff which doesn't matter. It was just cool to watch. And despite it being a world record of the dropping of such bouncy balls in that quantity, Guinness World Records people didn't even respond. Jerks! Just kidding Guinness, I love ya.

This brings me to a couple of fun things, atleast for me they were fun as a kid. Do you remember the Superball? That thing was amazing! This story made me think about that bouncy ball and how crazy bouncy it was. Of course it also reminded me of being scolded by my Mom for bouncing that sucker all over the house. But then when shooed outside, my brothers, friends and I would see how high we could get the Superball to bounce. I suspect that we could've even matched the altitude of our bounce to the altitude of the helicopter which dropped these 20,000 bouncy balls.

The next part the story reminded me of the new editions of the Guinness Book of World Records which I would get every year as a teenager. I loved looking up the odd sort of things and how fast someone could run or how tall some dude was. And as teenagers go, atleast me, I would peer into my future as the Guinness Book of World Record holders and see my name as the person who hopped the longest on a pogo-stick while I was practicing it in gym class. But, alas, I hold no such record as James Roumeiotis currently holds that record at more than 19 hours. The Jerk!

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Smile until your face hurts!