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launching golf balls
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:03:08 GMT
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Original-From:
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Shane Weston <shanew@/Spamless/bmi.net>
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shanew@bmiSTOPSPAM.net
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Launching at my family reunion last year, someone said "put a this golf
ball on top and see what happens" So I did. woah there was only one
person in the group that could track it regularly it went outta sight!
and came down FAST went thru a tree on it's way back down once and
snapped off a 1" diameter limb cleanly. It all stopped when the 4th
launch came down VERY near my uncles new truck! also I really didn't
want it landing on someones head.
I launched these on top of just plain 2l bottles no fins/nosecones.
While typing this I thought of an experiment I saw on "Bill Nye The
science Guy" some time ago. They put a tennis ball on top of a
basketball and dropped them from chest high. the tennis ball rocketed
away and the basketball bounced only a little bit. The basketball gave
all its energy to the tennisball. I think this may be what happened here
because the bottle didn't go as high.
Resuming DeLurkis Modis, Shane Weston in the Great COLD northwest.
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