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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8320811" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Hm. Well, now things get <em>really</em> dicey.</p><p>At standard temperature and pressure, air has a density of about 0.075 lb/ft[sup]3[/sup].</p><p></p><p>A sphere of 10 foot radius has a volume of 4,188 cubic feet. So, a sphere of air of that size weighs over 314 lbs. The thing has a density somewhere in the neighborhood of hard vacuum. The only way this at all sensible is that we frantically wave out hands at physics in an attempt to confuse them and get them to look the other way.</p><p></p><p>So, trying to be... reasonable? I have a basketball. I just weighed it - it comes in a 1 lb 2.4 oz, a close enough analog...</p><p></p><p>If I hucked a basketball hard enough to just go as far as across a basketball court, and it happened to hit you (generic, not you MarkB) in the face, it could easily break your nose. I've seen it happen.</p><p></p><p>Ergo, hucking a one pound weight hard enough to go even 15 yards is enough force to do damage - so it is effectively an attack, and the sphere is immune to attacks, so if you tried it, the sphere would <em>ignore</em> the attempt. You can lift and carry the sphere, presumably by getting <em>under</em> it, because at that radius you can't grip the darned thing, but cannot impart any signficant momentum to it in short timeframes (in physics terms, it negates high impulses).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8320811, member: 177"] Hm. Well, now things get [I]really[/I] dicey. At standard temperature and pressure, air has a density of about 0.075 lb/ft[sup]3[/sup]. A sphere of 10 foot radius has a volume of 4,188 cubic feet. So, a sphere of air of that size weighs over 314 lbs. The thing has a density somewhere in the neighborhood of hard vacuum. The only way this at all sensible is that we frantically wave out hands at physics in an attempt to confuse them and get them to look the other way. So, trying to be... reasonable? I have a basketball. I just weighed it - it comes in a 1 lb 2.4 oz, a close enough analog... If I hucked a basketball hard enough to just go as far as across a basketball court, and it happened to hit you (generic, not you MarkB) in the face, it could easily break your nose. I've seen it happen. Ergo, hucking a one pound weight hard enough to go even 15 yards is enough force to do damage - so it is effectively an attack, and the sphere is immune to attacks, so if you tried it, the sphere would [I]ignore[/I] the attempt. You can lift and carry the sphere, presumably by getting [I]under[/I] it, because at that radius you can't grip the darned thing, but cannot impart any signficant momentum to it in short timeframes (in physics terms, it negates high impulses). [/QUOTE]
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