a really big ball of silly putty!

[idlechic]

did you do the twinkie test, too?

jolie.

----- Original Message -----
From: "tundra" <tundra at telerama.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: a really big ball of silly putty!


> 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org
> > [mailto:pgh-goth-list-bounces at listless.org]On Behalf Of deeann mikula
> > hartmann
> > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 8:34 PM
> > To: derek.cf.PEGRITZ
> > Cc: pgh-goth-list at listless.org
> > Subject: RE: a really big ball of silly putty!
> >
> >
> > 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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