Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/04/what-happens-when-a-golf-ball.html
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lol, now we need to see Hydraulic Press guy doing that with a golf ball.
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Well duh - call in a pro.
I saw another video where the golf ball crumbled, it it looked like an old ball that used the “rubber band ball” core and it was old and dried out.
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No. Him doing that to a steamroller!
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Good thing that golf ball didn’t break! I remember hearing when I was a kid that the center of the golf ball was explosive and if you cut one in half, there’d be an explosion!
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What? You mean the rubber band ball would burst open? I don’t think they ever made anything explosive in them.
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Wait. Are you telling me that things I heard as a kid may not be true?!?
So… I don’t have to worry about going blind??
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NO that is totally true. Look at me, I can’t see shit.
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What happens when a golf ball gets run over by a steamroller?
The same thing that happens to everything else.
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this is the best one ever:
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This must be like Rule 34…anything you can find on the internet has been crushed by a hydraulic press?
I’m afraid to ask if Rule 34 applies to the hydraulic press.
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Oh sure, it survives the steamroller. But I land one time on a cart path and it’s a shredded mess.
Perhaps that video should become a golf ball commercial?
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Nah. Or at least not for those with a solid rather than wound core.
In one golf round, my partner had hit onto the green and walked to it as I prepared to hit a wedge from about 70 yards away. I took a very hard, very steep swing trying to impress him with a shot that would land beyond the hole and backspin close to it.
The ball did begin to spin back toward the hole as I intended. But then it veered right, then left. I couldn’t understand what was happening. Meanwhile, my partner up at the green was laughing hysterically. When there I could see why – there was half a ball. It was rolling around as predictably as a football would. I had hit it with the edge of the wedge and it had split exactly in two. The other half went who knows where.
We weren’t competing so I just replaced it with another ball to putt out. But it caused me to look up the rules & yep, there actually was a provision for this: you must play the largest fraction of the ball.
But no explosion.
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rats…
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Repeat after me: “This is not a steamroller. Steamrollers are antiques that almost nobody living has ever seen in action.” Once you have that mantra down pat you should work on “That machine digging over there is not a steam shovel. Like steamrollers, steam shovels are also antiques and would never be used in even the most poverty-stricken third world countries.”
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In Lancaster, PA, and I didn’t hear about it in the 15 years I lived just north o’ there?
#GOD DAMMIT
I do loves me a steam tractor.
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But of course…
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