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Re: Suction as a method for possessing balls

I did some tests of this todayt using a vacuum cleaner and a soccer ball. It's not effective as a mechanism for "aquiring" a ball, becausebut it did seem to do the amount of energy required to have a substantial radius where it sucks enough is enormous, but it did seem to do a .ecent job of holding the ball in place
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