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.
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You forgot about the terminal velocity.
1 kg, 1 meter up. No way you're tricking me into doing math.
You broke your fucking neck
Hell yeah
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
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.
1g tennis ball from high orbit
10000*36000000/1000 = thanks for the money, doofus
Ball gets burned on re-entry 
depends on the terminal velocity of a fuzzy and sightly deformed sphere
2x normal size is hardly comical 
it would be funny if it clogged a pitching machine or someone tried to cram it into a tube
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.
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?
2 x 10^30 kg at 0.01 meters. Turning the solar system into a binary star system with this. Money wont matter.
What's lighter, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?
A kilogram of fethers ofc
A kilogram of lighters.
Are fractions of meters and kg allowed?
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.
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.
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.
these mrbeast challenges are getting out of hand
1g dropped from the moon
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.
May I consider going inside before the ball hits my head?
Big enough to force the Earthnoids into space!
I'm not answering this because I know you'll call me a nerd
Normal size tennis ball from Pluto. It'll burn up in the atmosphere and I'll collect my $360 billion dollars
if it can't hit you i don't think you get paid
Then it'll bop my helmeted heat going at whatever the air resistance speed is
One kilogram, 10^19^ meters
I'll take that money in quarters please
Tennis balls are deceptively dense, a 2 meter radius tennis ball would have its weight in tons.