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Magic Levitating Golf Ball Trick

Magic Levitating Golf Ball Trick
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Me and my friend found this out a couple of days ago. All you need is an air compressor, a golf ball, and a nozzle that lets you spray air when you press it. You'll find out what I mean in the next step.

This is my first instructable so it is not perfect.
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
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Here is a list of stuff you'll need.

1. An air compresser
2. A golf ball
3. A nozzle
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May 11, 2008. 11:41 AMheavy.metal.nguyen says:
This is like the ping-pong ball and the hairdryer. But you need an air compressor for the golf ball because it has more mass. It's the Bernoulli principle (for the people who don't know). The ball stays in the air stream because it is in a lower pressure area. The higher pressure on the outside keep the ball in the air stream.
May 11, 2008. 11:58 AMkillerjackalope says:
I feel bournoullis principle should be used to more effect, think how easy getting a lift would be if you didn't have to stop at floors for other people...
May 11, 2008. 4:23 PMheavy.metal.nguyen says:
That's an odd concept, explain more about it.
May 11, 2008. 4:39 PMkillerjackalope says:
Umm Elevators that blast masses of air up hollow tubes, there's an up tube and a down tube, the down tube has just enough air to slow descent but not falling quickly... People simply jump in their respective tube and grab handles to stop at their floor and open the door, since it would actually not take that much serious mechanicals it wouldn't be overly costly, the main expense being a fan powerful enough to do the job, none of the usual elevator equipment would be necessary and the original door would only need to be fitted with rubber seals and buttons for the insides of the tubes... Not sure about efficiency but coolness, defninitely, though in exceptionally busy buildings this concept could prove cost effective and even efficient...
May 19, 2008. 5:01 AMb-train says:
lol how many females in an office wear skirts??? heheheh
May 19, 2008. 6:17 AMkillerjackalope says:
Not enough...
May 11, 2008. 5:03 PMheavy.metal.nguyen says:
Now getting off at the right time would be a different story. Miss a floor and you're pretty much dead.
May 11, 2008. 5:06 PMkillerjackalope says:
Not really, the idea would be that it would go up at a speed reasonable enough to catch your floor and the top floor would have a big mesh ceiling and handles to make your way to the door...
May 11, 2008. 6:15 PMheavy.metal.nguyen says:
There would be many variable to take into consideration, like mass of a person, and their surface area.
May 11, 2008. 6:25 PMkillerjackalope says:
Yeah but it would still be cool
May 11, 2008. 6:57 PMheavy.metal.nguyen says:
Kind of like the tubes in Futurama.
May 11, 2008. 8:20 PMkillerjackalope says:
Yeah...
May 18, 2008. 7:31 AMross353 says:
you seem to be forgetting that many people use elevators for such things as boxes, bag's children in buggy's/stroller. it would be cool for the people who don't need to use it for any of this but other than that completely useless.
May 18, 2008. 1:29 PMkillerjackalope says:
it's a if the world was cooler idea, not a perfect point, however an elevator powered by this system could work in principle, it would simply be tightly fitted in its shaft and be a moving platform...
May 18, 2008. 5:22 PMsolo.card says:
I would love to play in an elevator like this. Very similar to those wind-tunnel things that simulate weightless-ness (or a free-fall sky dive, or something similar), but I reckon it would need a huge fan.
May 18, 2008. 5:25 PMkillerjackalope says:
yep, I reckon on big **** off fan is in order...

*delivery guy, need someone to sign for a big **** off fan
*Woah that's on big **** off fan
*wel ya going to sign so I can **** away off, it's my lunch.

Note that was overuse to make point of fan's big **** offness...
May 18, 2008. 6:19 PMsolo.card says:
Hmm, maybe thats a little too big? I was thinking golly-darn big, not ****-off big...
May 18, 2008. 6:18 PMkillerjackalope says:
hehe...
May 18, 2008. 7:12 PMJamesRPatrick says:
I can do this with a ping pong ball by blowing it upwards.
May 18, 2008. 7:12 PMJamesRPatrick says:
By the way, quit spamming.
May 18, 2008. 7:15 PMkillerjackalope says:
What are you talking about spamming, I got started on a related topic, then made a forum topic to cover it, people still reply to this though.
May 18, 2008. 7:16 PMkillerjackalope says:
Or did you mean the author?
May 19, 2008. 3:47 PMJamesRPatrick says:
Yes, I mean the author. Check his comments.
May 19, 2008. 6:00 PMkillerjackalope says:
Oh right, sorry launched into one, then realised, sometimes you get the odd person that calls it spamming to have a conversation on an 'ible... Even though all benefit...
Jun 7, 2008. 6:55 PMitsmanofpopsicle says:
Cool! My text is squeezed because of useless comments(no offence)!
Jun 7, 2008. 7:12 PMkillerjackalope says:
The conversation was actually topical so meh...
Jul 16, 2008. 5:02 PMcorey_caffeine says:
let us extend this
Jul 17, 2008. 6:49 AMkillerjackalope says:
Even more?!?!
Aug 11, 2008. 1:20 PMitsmanofpopsicle says:
Even more!!!
Jul 17, 2008. 9:25 AMcorey_caffeine says:
yes
Aug 11, 2008. 1:21 PMitsmanofpopsicle says:
Even more!!!
Aug 14, 2008. 7:09 PMcorey_caffeine says:
the prophecy has been fufilled i posted again
Aug 30, 2009. 12:50 PMharley_rly says:
you guys never finished it
May 11, 2008. 4:46 PMmwwdesign says:
I like the way you think, haha!
May 11, 2008. 4:50 PMkillerjackalope says:
Chec out the parachute simulator ideas, it's not a completely unbelievable idea...
May 19, 2008. 5:13 AMmetldrumer984 says:
on the whole elevator thing, you could have a pad u stand on before entering the tube which adjust the fan to accompany your details, and then choose your floor. enter the tube, your balanced out and then you proceed down or up.
May 17, 2008. 10:32 PMtechnodude92 says:
thats becasue you commented everywhere and i quote.

"This is cool! check out my awsome instructable

http://www.instructables.com/id/Magic-Levitating-Golf-Ball-Trick/"
May 18, 2008. 7:30 AMLego man says:
Yeah now there is 700 views.
May 17, 2008. 8:39 PMstandupclothing says:
yawn
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