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I saw that on the box a couple of days ago, and even though you know how it's going to happen, it still surprises you. Mind you, the construction of that room is incredible! 22,600 cubic meters of space, pumped down to less than 2 grams of air? 
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They could have also done a microphone & oscilloscope showing the waveform when the ball hits the box just to add to it!
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Or a comedy sound effect to see how many people noticed? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: 22,600 cubic meters of space, pumped down to less than 2 grams of air
So about as much atmosphere as a German bar.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: So about as much atmosphere as a German bar.
Depends who's in it! I've spent some fine evenings in German Bars. Some of them I can even remember... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've spent some fine evenings in German Bars.
The one Brits go to? 
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Gawd no! 
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Dutch then? Of was it a German bar abroad, because god knows, Germans in bars in Germany are about as lively as Norwegians. Actually they are all the same, boring. Its only when you get south of somewhere in the middle and it becomes Austria that they get fun.
Of course that just my opinion, feel free to discard it. 
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Quote: fine evenings ... bars
Quote: remember
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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No...some of them you wish you could forget!
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Aaah, you mean Quote: fine lousy evenings
We've all had those. I was on a pub crawl in Manchester once (the location being suspect enough). The last one had the news on TV and it was announced that Keith Moon had died.
I really can't shake that one!
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You you also get the really fine evenings that start out brilliantly, and then you wake up in a strange place, with strange people and have no idea how you got there. But it comes back and you start wishing it hadn't...I didn't do that, did I? I did? Why? And more to the point how?
Worse, if you don't remember, there will be plenty of people able and willing to recall perfectly for you... 
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Makes me think of The Moody Blues: "Woke up late, wasn't where I should have been"
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Quote: and then you wake up in a strange place, with strange people and have no idea how you got there
...and can't find your trousers or your left sock. Been there!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Breathtaking!
Life is too shor
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Awesome!
But remember there is no such thing as gravity...the earth just sucks.
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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You learn about it in physics class, but to see it is awesome!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Not really. Do it with two balls of the same diameter made of vastly different material, exactly the same without al the vacuum malarkey.
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You are talking about knowing - I'm about seeing!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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No, actually I am talking about seeing. Take two balls, same diameter, different material, drop them from same height, both hit floor at same time.
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What I meant, is that seeing two balls of the same size does not make the difference than a solid ball vs some feathers...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I swear that sometimes Brian Cox's intonations make him sound exactly like the goth dude on The IT Crowd.
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One of the coolest things I've ever messed with was a slotted line in my Electromagical Fields class in college. Having studied all about standing waves and VSWR and mastered all the funky math, it seemed like black magic. Then putting a diode detector in the carriage of this thing and watching the voltage rise and fall, exactly as predicted by the math, as the carriage is moved along the line was a major eye opener. Sometimes the math really does match the real universe! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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What on earth would they need a vacuum chamber that big for?
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