What is a Space Ball and what is its purpose?

[bigbackclock]

So its has been like 2 months and I still wonder what are space balls and what is its purpose. Is it some kind of just a Soccer Ball? Or its something else?

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Works like artificial mass, only you decide how much weight is simulated with the slider.

Used to bounce, saw some great vids of crazy things, dont bounce anymore though for some reason.

Fun for traps and good weight for gravity torps that only have a small grav field to accelerate them :)

[bigbackclock]

So only for mass, no fun?

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Well it being round is a lot of fun, but yeah functionally its just a better artificial mass, dosent require power and can simulate a lot more weight.

Iv enjoyed setting up stuff like a bin with a hanger door floor, filling it with loose spaceballs, then letting them loose down a custom course to see which colour won. Same principal but hanger door walls for traps that squash engineers in two opposing spaceball avalanches. I do wish they still bounced though :)

PS Oh and im using one in my pinball machine, can have funky stuff happen to it with grav fields like how they used magnates in old school machines :)

[bigbackclock]

So there is fun actually

[Jack Schitt]

It's a movie released in the 90s. John Candy comedy and it wss one I watched an uncountable number of times. You can probably find it, at least clips of it, online to watch for free.

[Tryst49]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

It's a movie released in the 90s. John Candy comedy and it wss one I watched an uncountable number of times. You can probably find it, at least clips of it, online to watch for free.

The most famous clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

[Jack Schitt]

https://youtu.be/sen8Tn8CBA4