TIMEOUT! 50lbs. Silly Putty + 7 story building.

Okay, so...

The GOP's imploding before our eyes.

Feh!

"Ever wonder what would happen if you dropped 50 lbs of Silly Putty from the 7th floor of an office building? Wonder no more as our crack team of Sunbelt Scientists take the challenge."

Ahhhhhhhh, experimental physics -- how I adore thee.

Go ahead and take 2 minutes to check out:

LINKY TO GOOGLE VIDEO OF SAID "EXPERIMENT"

•  More antidotes to our present world o' crap:

  Cute Overload

  by Simplify on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:24:28 AM PDT

  •  I like that.

    Thanks.

    The little dog with the chick in his mouth is pretty darned cute.

    by Rex Manning on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:34:35 AM PDT

    •  Yeah,

      click through the "greatest hits" collections on the left sidebar.  Due to the principle of conservation of ugly, with the concentration of cuteness on that site, it's no wonder everything else is so jacked up!

      by Simplify on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:41:00 AM PDT

  •  Crap. That is CUTE.

    Cute as hell!

    by EconAtheist on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:39:35 AM PDT

•  Sweet!

  Thanks for posting this.

  Have you seen this one?:

  The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project.

  (Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations.)

  Check out the "Gravitational Response Test" where they do the same thing with a Twinkie.

  by Rex Manning on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:31:53 AM PDT

  •  I am type-surfing right now

    Tabbed browsing rules.

    Ok.  One moment... lemme go watch...

    [time elapses]

    hahaha

    Conclusions:

    Twinkies are affected by gravity. However, their reaction upon impact is much smaller than expected, and they maintain a good deal of structural integrity from such a lofty fall.

    I'll be damned.  Good until 2086, indeed.

    by EconAtheist on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:42:26 AM PDT

  •  What're they calling "noxious?"

    Didn't they watch Jon Stewart's Musharraf interview this week?  Don't they know Twinkies are a tool of international diplomacy?

    by Simplify on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:43:49 AM PDT

•  Sounds like an episode of Mythbusters n/t

  by JML9999 on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:40:23 AM PDT

•  Hey do you think if we

  send Bush a 50 pound ball of silly putty he will roll it over the Constitution and finally give it a read on the putty it's self. It would be so much more fun for him that way, and might be just the thing to get him to read the damm thing.

  by iliketodrum on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:44:01 AM PDT

  •  Nah.

    He'd just stretch it out until the "funny pictures" disappeared.

    =|

    by EconAtheist on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:47:35 AM PDT

•  Not to totally hijack this thread, but I will!

  My other-than-dKos Internet vice:  Airliners.net
  Some really unbelievable airplane pictures there.  Check out most popular of all time, photographers' choice, and one of my personal favorites.

  by Simplify on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 12:58:22 AM PDT

  •  *I* certainly never stopped myself from

    hijacking a thread... hell - why should you?  lol

    =P

    Cool pics there!  Fark.com often links to the photos on that site.

    by EconAtheist on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 08:28:09 PM PDT

•  Thanks, I Needed That

  by gmoke on Sat Sep 30, 2006 at 08:09:18 PM PDT