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07-30-2010, 11:51 PM | #1 | |
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July 31, 2010: Time Ball
From the What Is It blog, and also Neatorama's "What Is It" quiz this week, a Time Ball.
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07-31-2010, 01:45 AM | #2 |
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And I thought dropping balls just indicated the onset of puberty.
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07-31-2010, 03:08 AM | #3 |
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When the balls dropped, men signified to each other that their timepieces were synchronized by turning their heads to the right and coughing; or, hacking which brought about the expression "time hack."
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07-31-2010, 05:28 AM | #4 |
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Balls!
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07-31-2010, 08:13 AM | #5 |
still says videotape
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I never looked for an explanation of the New Years goofiness, suddenly it makes a little sense. Is there a deeper meaning to the use of the ball, representing a celestial object or something, or did somebody cob together a prototype from the parts at hand?
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07-31-2010, 08:30 AM | #6 |
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or weather like tomorrow when it will be REALLY cold.
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07-31-2010, 10:57 AM | #7 |
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Sorry, Bruce, ya really dropped the ball on this one...
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07-31-2010, 05:34 PM | #8 |
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And if the device was on a treadmill that was moving forward as fast as the ball was dropping downward, would it stop Time or stretch it to Infinity?
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08-01-2010, 05:42 PM | #10 |
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That is so frigging cool.
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