Quicksand Fans

Hey guys!

Look at what I found on YouTube:

[link removed by moderator - underage content]

I think a good idea for next videos! How about it?

Cabeca from Brazil

I'm sorry, but this had very young children in it.

Nessie

It wasn't the tabletop thing again, was it?

tanya_wam wrote:It wasn't the tabletop thing again, was it?

Nope.

Nessie

Sorry! I would want show the clever pool and not children!

Follow another link without forbidden content:

https://youtu.be/pjjO84p18sU

I hope you enjoy it!

Ahhh...yes! That looks lovely!

A big enough pool...enough of those things...a bit of a foliage in the background...

A surreal new quicksand pit!

Thank you for that!

Nessie

A simple computation:

1 pool of these things, according to the ad = 10,000,000 balls

1 package of the same = 1250 balls

Price of 1 package = $10.00 (US)

Number of packages to fill the pool = 10,000.

Therefore, the cost to fill the pool = $100,000.00 (US)

Fred588 wrote:A simple computation:

1 pool of these things, according to the ad = 10,000,000 balls

1 package of the same = 1250 balls

Price of 1 package = $10.00 (US)

Number of packages to fill the pool = 10,000.

Therefore, the cost to fill the pool = $100,000.00 (US)

That's a lot!

How does that compare with the cost of other quicksands made by other producers, in terms of clay or peat or sand or whatever magic secret ingrediants bleck is made from?

Out of curiosity, if the water were coloured with a dye, say a brownish one, would the spitballs absorb it so it looked like a kind of quicksand?

Without knowing the actual size of the pool described in the spitballs ad, a direct comparison is pretty much impossible. A calculation is possible, however, if we accept its dependence on an assumption or two. The advertisement described a "backyard pool". Let's assume that the pool was 4 feet deep and 24 feet in diameter. The volume of such a pool is roughly 12500 gallons, which is roughly 5 times the volume of the largest pit at Studio 588 (which is the old and no longer used cork pit). If everything else remains the same, AND IF THE ASSUMPTION IS CORRECT, the cost to fill the Studio pit with spitballs would project to $20,000.00 (US). That would be on the order of 15 to 18 times what it originally cost to fill that pit with cork to a depth of 2 feet. (Because cork floats it does not have to be filled all the way to the bottom - we cannot tell if that might be so with the spitballs, but I doubt it).

Perhaps the materials might be available in bulk at, say, half the retail price. If so, the cost for a pit is still in the 10k range.

I'm willing to make the above-mentioned pit available but not to spend that kind of money myself.

tanya_wam wrote:

Fred588 wrote:A simple computation:

1 pool of these things, according to the ad = 10,000,000 balls

1 package of the same = 1250 balls

Price of 1 package = $10.00 (US)

Number of packages to fill the pool = 10,000.

Therefore, the cost to fill the pool = $100,000.00 (US)

That's a lot!

How does that compare with the cost of other quicksands made by other producers, in terms of clay or peat or sand or whatever magic secret ingrediants bleck is made from?