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Re: Trackballs

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Originally Posted by Uberbots View Post
according to my calculations, the mass of the air in the ball is about 1.5 pounds (at stp)... which is actually pretty significant.
1.5 pounds? To clarify, are you trying to tell me that you calculated the weight of about 20 cubic feet of air as being 24 ounces?

That's off by several orders of magnitude. That doesn't even pass the 'reasonable' test.

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