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Consider a hyperbolic paraboloid for your "curved surface." [link] Be sure to click on and move the java item around. |
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Soccer could stand to be hyperbolic. That ball seems pretty lazy and inert much of the time. |
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45° is extremely steep. Believe it or not, a 30° slope feels like about 60 when you're standing on it. |
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Back to the idea - wouldn't this make football even more boring as a spectator sport? |
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45 is wonderfully steep. I want the players teetering and working just to keep from falling down. |
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So far as spectator interest, this will concentrate the action in the center of the field. |
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Thanks to the Parabolic Pool Table, I'd honestly never considered a *non-spinning* parabolic sport. It would be sufficiently interesting to be worth trying. |
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Basketball. (+) Something has to make that sport more watchable. |
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Maximum or minimum at center field? |
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"Interplayer visibility would be greatly improved." |
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This is discriminatory: it isn't necessary to have a parabolics to play sport. Some of the sports even provide the opportunity to lose one, if you had some to begin with. |
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[ling, ling ling ling ling!] |
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It took me a second, and then I regretted that second. |
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Didn't cycling bake this decades ago? |
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The concept is pretty neat, but you'd really
have to legalise doping, because players
have a hard time running for 90 minutes
as it is. |
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But this way they spend half their time running downhill. |
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They would be running half the *distance*
downhill. Since uphill running will be twice
to three times as slow, the poor bastards
will spend 66-75% of their time on ascent. |
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Um, skateboarders on a halfpipe with basketball hoops so that they have to jump really high to dunk would be cool, or halfpipe jousting like on skate-or-die, or skateboard football on a halfpipe would be awesomely sweet too. |
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Imagining Tom Brady chucking a football up a 45 degree incline for a touchdown gets this a bun alone. |
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