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WCDT: 2131-35 (27 Feb- 2 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE! Week 6
Arancaytar:
--- Quote from: pendrake on 29 Feb 2012, 01:16 ---1. For the comic title, I could see how zero-G Volleyball could be illegal. One really hard ball-spike could literally decapitate someone.
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How would that work, though? With or without gravity, a spiked ball gets the same initial momentum. The only real difference I can see is that the ball keeps its momentum longer, while it bounces off the walls unpredictably. Is it humanly possible to spike a volleyball hard enough to kill someone on a direct hit, in Earth gravity?
Redball:
Hard to see how damage or injury from 1/2-pound inflated ball spiked at 90 mph or more from the player's hand would be different in earth's gravity or in a 0-g arena, other than that dodging injury might be more difficult with no friction surface handy. What is the range of injuries from being hit by a volleyball? What little reading I just did discusses some of the physics, but deals with shoulder injuries rather than the hit-in-the-face dodgeball kind.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 29 Feb 2012, 10:05 ---Seriously, how would an AI emulate drunkenness - by slowing clock speed? Taking a few processors offline?
Wandering too close to a big magnetic field?
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You had to put that Fanfic in here, didn't you?
And as for Volleyball - you guys are missing the point. Theoretically, you could keep the ball in the air indefinitely in zero-g.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 29 Feb 2012, 16:11 ---you'd need a net for the players *and* a net for the ball
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And a net for the net? [/Xzibit]
cesariojpn:
Wait, Hanners showing skin? Wouldn't the exposure of all that skin to the elements be counterproductive to her OCD and germphobias? And the sweat.....
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