{"id":276,"date":"2008-05-07T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/276"},"modified":"2008-05-07T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:30:15","slug":"mini-hoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/276","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Hoops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Popsci, the physics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/scitech\/article\/2008-05\/breakdown-tiny-trick-shooters\">tossing a ping-pong ball into a beer cup<\/a>, with videos of, well, tossing a ping-pong ball into a beer cup, under various conditions you&#8217;d find in a dorm (starting with the unlikely presence of beer cups).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These guys are pretty amazing. And the nonchalance with which they accomplish each trick shot adds a certain understated humor to this entertaining video. But though the guys seem to be developing a seemingly useless (if highly impressive) skill in their spare time, there&#8217;s quite a bit of complex science at play. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think being able to edit out the misses tempers that amazing\/impressive just a little.  Mostly it reminds me of how much free time I had in college, even though it didn&#8217;t seem that way at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Popsci, the physics of tossing a ping-pong ball into a beer cup, with videos of, well, tossing a ping-pong ball into a beer cup, under various conditions you&#8217;d find in a dorm (starting with the unlikely presence of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}