During a football game, punter Ray Guy kicked the football 72 yards. A comment was made by a sportscaster that they believed the football was filled with helium. "Sports and Science meet frequently. Radar guns, after all, are used to time baseball pitches. But when officials halted the Auburn-MSU game an seized the football after a 71-yard punt, things grew a bit odd." (Lafferty) The football was taken and tested and it disproved the sportscaster's statement because there was no helium in the football, just air. This however, got some people to pondering and they conducted some tests to find out if a football filled with helium would travel farther than one filled with air.
There were two experiments completed. One experiment was completed by WBNS television. The second experiment was done by a team of physicists and chemists from The Ohio State University in collaboration with the Columbus Dispatch..
The experiment completed by WBNS concluded that the helium-filled ball......
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