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- Lyanto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60... a human sized nuclear hamster ball?
- g2g079, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52You'll love it until it pops and you start sinking while the water is forcing the plastic against your face. Don't believe me, try jumping in a pool with a vynal cover on top and see how much fun you have.
note. Don't do this, You will most likely die. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39It's not airtight... there's a big hole in the side. How do you think you get inside, sherlock?
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I'm in ur bubbles eat'n ur legz
- scooper86, on 10/12/2007, -8/+40now you too can be jesus...... but obviously cooler
- discochew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32"These are designed with intentions to battle other morons people in other big inflatable balls on the ocean."
I think that means that if you have one, and see someone else with one, you are obligated to battle them. Sorta like Pokemon. - CaptainEO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31What are you McFly? Chicken?
- lithuin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24I foresee lots of these washing up on beaches around the world, with skeletons in them.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Here's the link to the actual site the sells them, with more pictures:
http://www.sportsstuff.com/newstuff/nuclearglobe/index.shtml#
(no I do not work them, but yes I would love to rolls around in a giant hamster ball!) - ImYourRealDad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I'm not allowed to have one of these.
- Sturmur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I went to the Osheaga Music Festival in 2006 in Montreal. The lead singer from the Flaming Lips used one of these to roll onto the crowd.
Sick as hell.
There's a clip of it inside the promo video of the festival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsGOqexRNKo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eosheaga%2Ecom%2F - deathdefyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14why would it have to be air tight? that doesnt make sense... of course it's vented. its double layered with air in between, itll float no matter how many air holes they give you
- Blasphemous88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Oh man. Cubans can now get to Florida in style.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21These things have been around since the 70's.
- olego, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Did anyone else think of xkcd.com?
- bittermang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I will patiently wait for the first story of someone attempting transatlantic travel inside one of these things. Someone out there is bound to say, "Hey..."
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11http://xkcd.com/c211.html
- KingBabi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@CaptainEO
Nobody, NOBODY calls me Chicken! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Won't my claws pop it?
- venir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The article says only available in Australia.
Or just go to Target.
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-6195268-1636912?asin=B000EMVL5C&AFID=Shopping&LNM=B000EMVL5C|SportsStuff_Nuclear_Globe__Yellow__Red&ref=tgt_adv_XSC10001 - LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"out to see"
Out to see?!?! Out to see what? Does your beach have a really nice view or something? - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'd be more afraid of drifting out to sea on a stiff breeze (TFA suggests using these things in the ocean).
Using one in anything much larger than a medium sized lake on a windy day sounds like a bad idea.
Oh, and if you roll it the wrong way, you can probably sink it.
I'm pretty sure popping is the least of your worries. I'd wager most deflation would be slow enough to allow you to get out of the thing long before it started sinking on ya. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Two problems:
1) Wind. Roll all you want -- any gust over 20 MPH is gonna blow you wherever it pleases.
2) Storing enough food/fresh water. You're gonna be in there for a couple months, probably. Gonna need to eat an drink. - Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12It's called a ZORB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorb
Here's where to buy one http://www.zorbasales.com/zorbforsale.html - ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And a spray can of Bat-Shark Repellent. (tm)
- Timmmm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"The lead singer from the Flaming Lips used one of these to roll onto the crowd."
http://xkcd.com/c211.html - ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I think this would be awesome at the ocean to ride on the waves. Undertow wouldn't make any difference to it, it doesn't ride low enough in the water, but I wouldn't want to be in it when the wind is blowing out to sea.
They're made out of very thick PVC so popping them would be extremely hard. Just don't use it on a coral reef or keep rusty nails in your swim trunks and the odds of it spontaneously popping are nill, and there's plenty of air flow, you're not going to to cook inside of it and water will drain out. - Blaise01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I just plan on staying away from Boston with it, I dont wanna be mistaken for a walking bomb cause of the nuke symbol.
- brerfrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6These have been in SkyMall for a while...
- aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm thinking you would need to make a much larger one, and make all those little bubble things on it water containers, add a couple storage spaces (reinforced so they don't pop the bubble) for food, and perhaps some sort of gun or spear for fishing, (with a tether of course) and I'm wondering if there would be some way to use the sun to evaporate and distill water while still moving. also you would probably want to tint most of it, or make it opaque so the sun doesn't bake you alive.
Also the weakness you point out (winds over 20 miles, Could be your greatest ally if you set up your journey to ride the trade winds... Wont have much control though, but at least its faster locomotion than rolling in a hamster ball. - whatyousay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8ok, so when it pops, and you're underwater surrounded by plastic, slowly sinking down to your death, ITS AWESOME.
- imikedaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"I'd be more afraid of drifting out to sea on a stiff breeze (TFA suggests using these things in the ocean)."
Mainly because in the pool you'd easily smash your face up against the corner of the concrete and lose some teeth. This thing seems dangerous in any kind of water... - Radiohead84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5looks like fun but wont this be kinda of dangerious
they should make sure to but a warning label on it saying
"if punctured and starts to deflate, exit immediately or you will be enclosed in plastic, pulled down into the water, and drown...have a nice day" - mortigon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Drop me off in the middle of the Atlantic with one of these... I may die, but damn that'd be fun
- gardnmi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8It can't pop you idiot...sorry I saw the error of my ways. I'm sure it has some supporting wires or something.
- luigi1015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Does this remind anyone else of American Gladiators?
They had the some very similar stuff, just made out of metal to make them stonger. They were built to roll over solid ground like hamster balls, so they didn't have to be light or waterproof. - lowerlogic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Here's the reaction I expect to hear if you try to use this in the water off a beach of Cape Cod:
Boston: OMG! Nuclear symbol! It's a bomb! Oh noes! Terrorism! - ctc803, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4little kids in this thing would start running out to sea and never look back..
- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah you're right, but you're getting buried for being the third (4th maybe) person to mention it already.
- Evolve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yawn old.
Zorbs were invented in New Zealand, and have been here for a long time.
And they are very very hard to puncture by the way, you can roll over police spike strips and still it wont burst/deflate.
Plus when you do finally manage to puncture it, the whole Zorb is designed in sections so you would have to puncture in a lot of different areas to deflate one to the point where a human would have a hard time getting out. - superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@aywwts:
But what happens when it keeps rolling, and you want to sleep? how does one go about keeping it from rolling? not to mention if the wind kicks up the waves you could find yourself repeatedly crushed and shooting to the surface until a seam rips...
I could go on, but I'd annoy even more people than I already have - tsctsc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So, who's going to be the guinea pig and test this?
- wrzhydr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ Homunculiheaded classsssic comeback!!!
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As the name says, UNDERtow happens at the BOTTOM of the water. When you're floating on top, it doesn't bother you.
- rshu4you, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stay out of Boston
- CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3rabbit in the moon uses something like this also
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ZORB! i love those things :-D
- soupyc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No...no. No one HAS to do it.
- tozmervo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A hell of a lot easier than building an ark. More entertaining, too.
- kmccormi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah these have been around for awhile now ... my country club has one, and the kids can get in it and take it out onto the ocean. They all seem to like it.
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