Have there been any technological advances in boucey bouncy ball technology in the last decade or two? What is the most dangerous boucey bouncy ball I can buy?

Edit: I will admit 3 things.

  1. I don’t spell good
  2. I def forgot about newtons 3rd law of motion and that bouncy balls aren’t magic or something. They will always have less energy than I throw it with after the 1st bounce.
  3. Gonna have to think of new way to commit murder. I could shoot bouncy balls out of potato cannon but that feels cheap.
  4. I don’t count good either
  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    6 days ago

    The Elders tell of a young ball much like you. She bounced three meters in the air. Then she bounced 1.8 meters in the air. Then she bounced four meters in the air. Do I make myself clear?

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    20·
    6 days ago

    Please stop putting in comments about bouncy balls. OP made clear by typing it twice he she wants to know about boucy boucey balls.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    5 days ago

    I actually did this research a while back and there is an ultimate bouncy ball that I forgot the name of. I will report here once I find it again.

    Edit: Megabounce XTR is the one.

    I also have tried the Waboba Moon Ball and that’s cool but the craters make it bounce all over the place. Up to you whether or not you want that, but I can’t have that unpredictability indoors.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    Bouncy balls are already reasonably efficient. If you want them to be more dangerous, you just get ones that weigh more.

    • DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      3·
      5 days ago

      This is a pretty good answer, but my inner child says nah. Golf balls are for adults. I want a bouncy ball!! Or bouncey ball! (depending on your persuasion 😉)

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        You can carefully crack open a golf ball to reveal a decent bouncy-ball.

        From memory, I think it is a weighted core, wrapped in a long thin strand of rubber.

        Glue the rubber strand to stop it unravelling and it should be good.

        (Crack open carefully means with a vice and a hacksaw, rather than using any knife)

        Edit: Turns out the wound rubber strand is only in balls up to 1970, newer balls have solid cores which may be fixed to the outer shell in a way that is hard to extract the bouncy-ball.

    • DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      Thanks for the video! Those metals are dope!

      Makes me want a Saw movie based on weird real life science taken to the extreme. Jigsaw meets Cave Johnson!

      Like two people are trapped together in a giant amorphous metal room made to look like a pinball machine. One of the people has to get in a giant amorphous pinball. The other person controls the paddles. If they score enough points in time they both move on to the next room. Well both if the one person isn’t splattered inside the pinball.

      Sometimes I worry myself slightly

  • glibg@lemmy.ca
    2·
    5 days ago

    An outdoor lacrosse ball is super bouncy and has a decent amount of weight. Fun to play with against a wall.