Balls

Kangaroo is one of those people who likes to push the envelope a little bit. Newbies to There quickly find out that the sea is solid; most people know that buggies travel faster over water than over land for some reason, perhaps to allow quicker travel between islands. A few people have noticed that balls bounce differently on the sea than on the land in that they don’t bounce lower and lower in the way you would expect; this may be related somehow to the buggy effect. Kangaroo is the only person I know who has pushed things to the limit and used this effect to make a perpetual motion machine.

The picture shows Kangaroo standing behind his construction, which as you can see is made out of four walls with windows plus one roof all placed in a casual portazone. You can put one or more soccer balls into such a cage and they will bounce forever in a quite hypnotic fashion. Drop a couple of dogs in there for the maximum fun; they really seem to enjoy this setup and will run round and round in circles after the balls.

You’ll find that if you drop one of the larger “feelium” balls over the ocean that it appears to vanish; in fact, it is just going straight up faster than you can see. You can verify this by putting out a large builder portazone with a large deck placed at its top, then dropping a feelium ball from a hoverpack directly under the deck and retreating rapidly to a safe distance before the ball hits the sea. The result is similar to Kangaroo’s cage but on a much larger scale and with much faster movement.