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and why would it shatter instead of splatter, bounce or other? Does this claim apply to new silly putty, or was the test done with old, brittle putty? And if you drop silly putty from that height onto the comics from the Sunday paper, will it still pull the image onto itself? - Morgan Haley

Morgan, I forget the technical term for this, but have you ever noticed that if you pull a piece of Silly Putty apart slowly it stretches and gets thin, whereas if you pull it apart quickly it (more or less) breaks without deforming to much? I think that's why the silly putty would shatter upon impact. Would like to see video, though. - Joe Bonner

Is it something like "non-Newtonian" ... ? I've seen a video of a big ball of the stuff, still new and squashy, dropped several storeys and it does indeed shatter. - Timothy Griffin

I think Timothy's hit the nail on the head: non-Newtonian fluid properties. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Share video, pretty please Timothy? Think you can find it somewhere? - Kamilah Gill

my brain hurts - Morgan Haley

Kamilah: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Timothy Griffin

here's video of this year's drop at NCSU (I believe they do it every year): http://www.youtube.com/watch... - holly

Remember when ball made from 6 million rubber bands was dropped from a plane onto the Mojave Desert? http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news... - Micah Wittman

Wild. Timothy, you ROCK. - Kamilah Gill