Playing Ping Pong on the Bus
I saw an interesting thing on the way home from work last night (actually I see quite a lot of interesting things in Vancouver, I guess because I’m just a country lad in a big city). Anyway, two young people were sitting at the back of the bus opposite each other and were playing ping pong! There was no net of course but they were using ping pong paddles to bounce the ball back and forth to each other. They were pretty good at it and it was raising a smile on many people’s faces.
What probably made it more challenging than normal was the motion of the bus because as the bus braked and slowed down the ping pong players’ bodies slowed down with the bus, but if the ball was in the air it carried on moving forward at the same pace! This meant that they had to react quickly and lean to the side to hit it. Interesting demonstration of physics and relative motion. Wonder if there’s a game idea in there? At least a flash game…
