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show transcriptcharlottan posted:
they invented a new science called "dont let the balloon hit the floor" scientests are being very careful and bapping that thing before it can fall jumping over the couch and shit

charlottan replied:
[screenshot of a tumblr comment] hexoskeleton commented:
dramatic oversimplification of the field... each scientest can only hit it once and holding it isn’t allowed. and sometimes the floor is even lava. so the problem is a lot more complex than most laypeople might think [end screenshot]

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Is keepupology under physics, engineering, mathematics, philosophy, sociology, or spoken Finnish?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago

Keepy uppy!

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Technically each scientist can hit the balloon more than once, just not in succession.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

This is the kind of nuance the layperson doesn't typically understand.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Is this that whole immortality thing keep seeing?

I believe the technical term for that is "Keepy Uppy."

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The version my team invented was called "balloon ball" and the balloon had to touch a desk, wall, or cubical before it could be hit by a person again. But the important bit is that the balloon wasn't entirely filled with air, it was partially filled with the propellant from a duster can. That made the "ball's" path unpredictable.

There was also "balloon ball-ducken" in which there was a 2nd balloon inside the first balloon (and a sometimes a paperclip in the 2nd), but that sport was never quite ready for primetime.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bullshit.

You're not a scientist at all. I can spot an engineer a mile away and THIS GUY REEKS OF ENGINEER TO ME

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 day ago

Yeah... I switched sides and became an engineer...

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 17 hours ago

*scientests

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... and they're doing all this in a biolab with glass containers full of exotic bacteria, viruses and spores sitting on open counters and table tops.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

It just wouldn't be as much fun any other way:-).

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

balloon bop

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Has anyone else had the whole series of YouTube shorts about that recommended or is that just me?

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 15 hours ago

that series is clearly scifi. in real world frolickology, holding the balloon or letting it come to rest in any way is instant death. it is a cool what-if scenario but it's not hard scifi

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Lmao i know it's gonna be cheese parade