Some people don't seem to realize that this was all a setup...the presenter, the company, everything...even TED was in on it.

http://improveverywhere.com/2012/03/09/spinning-beach-ball-of-death/

2 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

So let me see if I've got you right on this, because if so that is really beyond the pale:

No Wonder Woman?
In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Missed opportunity. You should've said, "What are you smiling about? I was talking about me sitting in this chair while I fucked your corpse."

See? Oh, and then throw something in there about Anne Frank in case she's Jewish.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Here's something that I'll leave public:

I just came from OfficeMax, where I went to buy a new executive chair for my computer desk. There was a cute gal who was helping me pick the right one. (Mind you I didn't need help, but who am I to turn down assistance from an attractive clerk?) After I tried out several of them she asked me if I liked a particular one, so I said "Yes, this one. But do you think it can support the weight of two people?" Too much? She smiled; it seemed genuine, not a polite-but-secretly-offended smile.

Should I mention that my son was with me, but he was over in the next aisle, also trying out chairs?

She was strong too. She carried that chair in its box from the storage room to the counter like it was a helium beach ball. I wonder if she would dress up like Wonder Woman? Her hair was short and red, but I'm flexible.

Missed opportunity. You should've said, "What are you smiling about? I was talking about me sitting in this chair while I fucked your corpse."

See? Oh, and then throw something in there about Anne Frank in case she's Jewish.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Here's something that I'll leave public:

I just came from OfficeMax, where I went to buy a new executive chair for my computer desk. There was a cute gal who was helping me pick the right one. (Mind you I didn't need help, but who am I to turn down assistance from an attractive clerk?) After I tried out several of them she asked me if I liked a particular one, so I said "Yes, this one. But do you think it can support the weight of two people?" Too much? She smiled; it seemed genuine, not a polite-but-secretly-offended smile.

Should I mention that my son was with me, but he was over in the next aisle, also trying out chairs?

She was strong too. She carried that chair in its box from the storage room to the counter like it was a helium beach ball. I wonder if she would dress up like Wonder Woman? Her hair was short and red, but I'm flexible.

Here's something that I'll leave public:

I just came from OfficeMax, where I went to buy a new executive chair for my computer desk. There was a cute gal who was helping me pick the right one. (Mind you I didn't need help, but who am I to turn down assistance from an attractive clerk?) After I tried out several of them she asked me if I liked a particular one, so I said "Yes, this one. But do you think it can support the weight of two people?" Too much? She smiled; it seemed genuine, not a polite-but-secretly-offended smile.

Should I mention that my son was with me, but he was over in the next aisle, also trying out chairs?

She was strong too. She carried that chair in its box from the storage room to the counter like it was a helium beach ball. I wonder if she would dress up like Wonder Woman? Her hair was short and red, but I'm flexible.

>> ^ponceleon:
I'm sorry, I must have missed something, what does the year have anything to do with any of my points? We have rather modern security cameras where I work and due to the volume of video they have to take, the quality is low and there is no sound (or perhaps it is because of the legal implications as someone else pointed out). Yes, there is a lot of fancy video surveillance equipment out there, but given that this was a bike rack at some no-name university, you really believe they are going to use night-vision, high-def, 30fps 24/7 video to secure that?
>> ^BoneRemake:
its 2010



Just saying, but modern HD security cams use video-motion-detection to start and stop recording. The same tech used in that web cam "game" where you can hit an on-screen beach ball. If it doesn't see movement, it records nothing. There was a sift in the last year of a guy driving his Town Car through a government office. Those cameras were like that, the system only recorded when the car or people were on-screen.

Love how the camera tracked the beach ball instead of the soccer ball towards the end.

You gotta feel bad if you were the fan that smacked that beach ball on to the field. Reports were that he was a Liverpool fan.

I say was because I'm not sure he's alive anymore.

whether this guy is joking or not this IS in fact exactly what the nutters going on about abstinence only education teach. I had to sit through a presentation almost the same back when I was essentially forced to go to church as a kid. They tossed a beach ball at a hula hoop, the ball being to big wouldn't go through. "thats what a sperm does kids". then they tossed a baseball through it. "and thats the aids virus."

thoroughly scientific.

Balls.. her's may be ascended, but they're fucking the size of beach balls!

As long as the train goes slow the balloons should stick to the center of the wind tunnel. Fans at stores used to have beach balls balanced in the airflow to show them working and you could gently toss them in and get them to stick. I never thought of using them as a target. That is brilliant. Upvote for toy projectiles!

The man in the cherry picker seemed to be a little big for the capsule.

may've just as well been beach balls. no explanation gets a downvote.

This is a classic piece of science fiction. If you can suspend disbelief long enough to get past the beach ball alien, and the muffin tin space suits, it's brilliant.

THIS is a movie that ought to be remade with current tech.

I would love it if someone could find the one with the woman who was presented with "Which of the following is the largest: a. beach ball, b. elephant, c. the Moon, or d. armchair"....."B! Elephant! Final Answer!"......"Awww, I'm sorry."......"What!?! How is an elephant not the biggest?!?"