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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by red_giant@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

You may consider wind resistance.

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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

1mg at 1 lightyear. By the time it reaches Earth it will simply burn up in the atmosphere. I'll take my $9,460,730,472.58 as direct deposit, thanks.

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

How long do you think it takes a gravity assisted tennis ball to reach earth, and do you think dollars, even in those amount, will continue to have value?

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If I die from it, can I still give the money to someone else in my will? Because then I'd make it large enough and heavy enough to crash the entire capitalist economy and give the money to a friend who would then distribute it to the people. Or maybe to some random guy in a rural village in Indonesia or somewhere, just for fun.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

May I consider going inside before the ball hits my head?

[-] gramxi@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

I'm not answering this because I know you'll call me a nerd

[-] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Tennis balls are deceptively dense, a 2 meter radius tennis ball would have its weight in tons.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

One kilogram, 10^19^ meters

I'll take that money in quarters please

[-] nasezero@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

10kg at 10,000,000 miles. I would be flying to Tel Aviv in this hypothetical, so you can just leave the cash in the crater of my atomized remains.

[-] xarm@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

I support LGBT - let's Go Ball Tel Aviv

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

You forgot about the terminal velocity.

1 kg, 1 meter up. No way you're tricking me into doing math.

[-] red_giant@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

You broke your fucking neck

[-] RION@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Whatever gets me enough impact force to level a city for no reason at all.

In unrelated news I've been thinking of taking a trip to Washington DC

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

2x normal size and from low orbit. either i did my napkin math right and terminal velocity won't even concuss me, or i'll be dead and not have anything to worry about.

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Ball gets burned on re-entry think-about-it

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

depends on the terminal velocity of a fuzzy and sightly deformed sphere

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

1g tennis ball from high orbit

10000*36000000/1000 = thanks for the money, doofus

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

2x normal size is hardly comical tails-pout

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

it would be funny if it clogged a pitching machine or someone tried to cram it into a tube

[-] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

2 x 10^30 kg at 0.01 meters. Turning the solar system into a binary star system with this. Money wont matter.

[-] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago
[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

What's lighter, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?

[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

A kilogram of fethers ofc

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

A kilogram of lighters.

[-] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Assuming the tennis ball retains the same mass, I will make the tennis ball big enough such that the outer shell of tennis ball is a few atoms thick. So maybe the size of earth? Drop it from one millimeter. The only down sides of this are that the tennis ball is displace a huge amount of air in our atmosphere, devastating air currants and weather. Since that the interior of the tennis ball will be a near vacuum, it will also be incredibly buoyant in the atmosphere. I don’t think the gravitational attraction of the earth on the near side of the tennis ball will be enough to overcome the buoyancy, so I will have to jump very quickly to make contact with it. As the tennis ball’s shell makes contact on my head it will likely rupture. All the displaced air will now fill the colossal void left by the tennis ball. I will be sucked up into the vortex and likely murderlated by the sheer force on my body. The ensuing maelstrom will level buildings and destroy everything on the North American continent except the mountains. The tsunami ripples of air will continue to rebound around the whole planet for months if not years.

I will leave all my prize money to whomever survives. Because a tennis ball is .06 kg and the prize money is $10,000 per kilogram per meters dropped. So I think the result is around $6.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wouldn't the planet also be covered in felt and rubber as a result? I think between the catastrophic weather and the material swallowing the planet and polluting everything, it might wipe out humanity and most terrestrial animals.

It's also large enough that it might fuck up the Earth's orbit, and then everything is dead.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

Are fractions of meters and kg allowed?

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

these mrbeast challenges are getting out of hand

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

1g dropped from the moon

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Drop it from space, and just keep the normal size. If you just want the money.

Drop it from the iss and a tennis ball the size of mars. Because I'm not going to be the only one concussed.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Big enough to force the Earthnoids into space!

[-] fox@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Normal size tennis ball from Pluto. It'll burn up in the atmosphere and I'll collect my $360 billion dollars

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

if it can't hit you i don't think you get paid

[-] fox@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Then it'll bop my helmeted heat going at whatever the air resistance speed is

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