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A comically large tennis ball is dropped on your head. You earn $10,000 per kilogram of tennis ball multiplied by the height in meters of the fall. How large a tennis ball and how high do you choose? (hexbear.net)
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You may consider wind resistance.

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

1g tennis ball from high orbit

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

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

2x normal size is hardly comical tails-pout

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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