Can One Raise A Sunken Vessel With Ping-Pong Balls
Can One Raise A Sunken Vessel With Ping-Pong Balls?
Being assigned an I-Search paper, I was to acquire a question that was appealing to me, and that I did. It all started after mindless searches via the internet and some procrastination, to which I found myself to be in front of the television. While I knew I should be looking for a suitable question, I still sat there watching on. I happened to be flipping through the channels when a commercial for the Mythbusters brought about the question if one can raise a sunken vessel with ping-pong balls, to which I thought, "Why would anyone want to use ping-pong balls to raise a- hey, that could be my question!" It was so hilariously stupid that it caught my attention, so I used it. I started …show more content…
I went online and saw that they had already tested this myth on a previous show, so I left a posting in their board room asking them how they did it and for the results of their "Ping-Pong Rescue." To my surprise, I had gotten a response sooner than what I had originally expected. In which they described, in detail, that they had to determine what water pressure a ping-pong ball could survive and find a way to get the balls into the boat, they had selected, effectively. They went on to say that they had used a pressure tube to find out that a ping-pong ball could stand up to 90 PSI. They also said that they used a long three inch diameter tube, to which they put a funnel in one end and the other end into the boat that they had sealed up. They then put several ping-pong balls in the funnel at a time and put a garden hose in the funnel so that the water, pulled by gravity, would "wash" the balls down, filling the boat. Jamie also noted that one of Adam's seals, had failed and several hundred ping-pong balls escaped the boat and had floated to the surface and they had to reseal the boat. Adam also calculated how many balls it would take, determining that it would take around fifty-thousand ping-pong balls since fifteen balls displace 1 pound and that the boat weighed in around three-thousand pounds. Adam and Jamie concluded that the boat was raised and, in the end, it only took
Being assigned an I-Search paper, I was to acquire a question that was appealing to me, and that I did. It all started after mindless searches via the internet and some procrastination, to which I found myself to be in front of the television. While I knew I should be looking for a suitable question, I still sat there watching on. I happened to be flipping through the channels when a commercial for the Mythbusters brought about the question if one can raise a sunken vessel with ping-pong balls, to which I thought, "Why would anyone want to use ping-pong balls to raise a- hey, that could be my question!" It was so hilariously stupid that it caught my attention, so I used it. I started …show more content…
I went online and saw that they had already tested this myth on a previous show, so I left a posting in their board room asking them how they did it and for the results of their "Ping-Pong Rescue." To my surprise, I had gotten a response sooner than what I had originally expected. In which they described, in detail, that they had to determine what water pressure a ping-pong ball could survive and find a way to get the balls into the boat, they had selected, effectively. They went on to say that they had used a pressure tube to find out that a ping-pong ball could stand up to 90 PSI. They also said that they used a long three inch diameter tube, to which they put a funnel in one end and the other end into the boat that they had sealed up. They then put several ping-pong balls in the funnel at a time and put a garden hose in the funnel so that the water, pulled by gravity, would "wash" the balls down, filling the boat. Jamie also noted that one of Adam's seals, had failed and several hundred ping-pong balls escaped the boat and had floated to the surface and they had to reseal the boat. Adam also calculated how many balls it would take, determining that it would take around fifty-thousand ping-pong balls since fifteen balls displace 1 pound and that the boat weighed in around three-thousand pounds. Adam and Jamie concluded that the boat was raised and, in the end, it only took