What would you use Flubber for?

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by darksidZz, Oct 15, 2008.

  1. darksidZz Valued Senior Member

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    Remember Flubber? That weird gak like substance that was invented in that movie and everyone could bounce all around the basketball court? I wonder what you'd use such a thing for... hummm me... bounce up and down to look in girls windows? Maybe better tires (car go bouncy bounce)?

    Clothing that would bounce bullets back?

    Grrr!
     
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  3. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    I'd coat my scooter and riding gear with flubber so I'd be invulnerable to collisions.

    Flubber would be my second choice...... my first being unobtainium

    BTW -- what were the properties of flubber? If I recall correctly, it seemed to go higher and faster every time it bounced. Imagine putting something like that in a piston, or any sort of device that converted the energy into "work"
     
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  5. RubiksMaster Real eyes realize real lies Registered Senior Member

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    Wouldn't that be worse? If you crashed, all the deceleration would happen in an instant, and you would accelerate the other way in the next instant. Unless, of course, that worked in the movie.
     
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  7. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Make coins out of it so they bounce back up to you when you put them in a vending machine so you never have to pay for stuff again.

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  8. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    As was demonstrated in the movies, things that were flubberized were easily able to overcome to usual problems of momentum, impact forces, and sudden vector changes. Not only that, but each impact was accompanied by that "boing" sound. How can a person not prefer that over a horrific "crunch"?
     
  9. sniffy Banned Banned

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    Great for gagging?
     

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