Mark French, a professor at Purdue, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5981379/what-happens-when-a-900mph-ping-pong-serve-hits-your-paddle">created a cannon that can fire ping pong balls at 900 MPH</a>. The serve is certainly not returnable and it leaves a hole in the paddle, even though <keyword id="88467" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Ping-Pong">ping pong</keyword> balls are so light.
As Gizmodo points out, <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5981379/what-happens-when-a-900mph-ping-pong-serve-hits-your-paddle">the ball has an equal energy and momentum of a bullet</a>, so it could potentially be very, very dangerous.
The ping pong ball gets fired at about 5:40:
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Here's What Happens When You Serve A Ping Pong Ball At 900 MPH

Mark French, a professor at Purdue, created a cannon that can fire ping pong balls at 900 MPH. The serve is certainly not returnable and it leaves a hole in the paddle, even though ping pong balls are so light. As Gizmodo points out, the ball has an equal energy and momentum of a bullet, so it could potentially be very, very dangerous. The ping pong ball gets fired at about 5:40:

Mark French, a professor at Purdue, created a cannon that can fire ping pong balls at 900 MPH. The serve is certainly not returnable and it leaves a hole in the paddle, even though ping pong balls are so light.

Here's What Happens When You Serve A Ping Pong Ball At 900 MPH

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