Professor Blue

A school dis­trict in West Vir­ginia of over 1,000 stu­dents began a mass slaugh­ter of pump­kins in pur­suit of science.

water bal­loons for science

“Orga­niz­ers say the goal of the event is not to make the squashes go splat, but rather to pro­vide some pump­kin pro­tec­tion…” when dropped from 40 feet.

“It’s an appli­ca­tions process, it’s a physics process,” said one big wig where the demon­stra­tion was held.

The win­ners used a vari­ety of mate­ri­als.  One group used “…milk car­tons instead of cups” along with cardboard.

Another group of stu­dents found that water bal­loons, tra­di­tion­ally the weapon of choice for cer­tain mid­dle school and high school enthu­si­asts, pro­vided ade­quate pump­kins protection.

Calls made to the Pump­kin Anti-Cruelty Soci­ety for a com­ment were not returned.