Has anyone else ever had this thought?

[hippywife]

Why in Times Square does the ball come down instead of going up? It seems to me that with such a huge crowd it would be more visible at the turn of the new year if it went up. And even if that were not the case it just seems like a backwards way of doing this thing.

[LiberalEsto]

1. Gravity. nt

[elleng]

18. Bravo! Ditto, LibEst!

Happy New Year!
:fistbump:

[kayakjohnny]

2. You've got a point there.

If we were celebrating the end of a year, then the ball drop might be right, as in 'bringing the hammer down on another one'. But since we're celebrating a beginning, is should be uplifting as in 'going upwards to the sky'.

I think you're on to something there.

Cheers!

[RandomThoughts]

4. Huge label trap around the word 'ball'

Just so people know that effects some groups, and why they use that imagery, to try to put that concept in your mind.

Don't fall for that label trap, bounce back :D That label trap can be insidious.

[hippywife]

5. See, now...

this is what I'm talking about. Onward and upward, no? :hi:

[kayakjohnny]

6. Yes!

:hi:

[boston bean]

3. nope.

:-)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. But where would it go?

[hippywife]

10. Just to the top of the structure

it normally comes down on. It would be a simple matter to reverse the process, I would think. :shrug:

:hi:

[PassingFair]

14. And how would we know when it got there? nt/

[madinmaryland]

26. To infinity and beyond. nt

[rug]

8. Going down is the only way to start a year.

[hippywife]

12. Would you care to

elucidate? }(


:rofl:

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Elucidate?

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[hippywife]

15. ...

:rofl:

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. I've always thought of it like the sands in an hourglass...

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So you're counting DOWN the last few seconds of the year.
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The fireworks so traditional at midnight seem to meet your qualification
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MiddleFingerMomSis went to Times Square for New Year's Eve sometime
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Said with the press of the crowd, she had never been anywhere NEAR
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[hippywife]

11. And they are expecting a million there tonight! Eek!

I could not handle that, either.

I do see what you're saying but... :hi:

[Duer 157099]

16. Yeah, we should launch that ball into orbit instead

A new one each year until there are so many glittery balls orbiting the planet that we have to find a new planet to live on. Or something.

[hippywife]

17. Well, that's a little beyond what I had in mind.

Too much junk in space now as it is. We're polluting a whole new realm. :eyes:

:hi:

[Forkboy]

19. Yeah, I hate things going down.

What a sucky way to spend the Holiday!

[begin_within]

20. I wish they would make it a giant beach ball and then let everyone bat it around.

[RandomThoughts]

22. That was method to develop community spirit in Communist USSR

Did you know that? Instead of teaching individual accomplishment, they taught group accomplishment.

In school they taught the whole class would knock a ball in the air together, instead of some individual sports, that actual meaning of Roller ball, however Roller ball applies equally to economic consolidations or commissions.

Interesting that you post that when current conversation is on economic systems and control systems.


Some of those teachings are used in corporations to keep employees working for the company not any of their own interest also, as Bill Murray said, the corporate system learned the methods to create followship unaware in many people by cult techniques.

[Odin2005]

21. IRRC because it used to be a literal ball that was actually dropped.

[tigereye]

23. hmm, was there ever a time when it went up?

why do I seem to remember something like that happening in the past?

[hippywife]

24. I don't know because, honestly

I have really never cared to watch, but it just seemed to me that it was done backwards.

Maybe you subconsciously feel the same and your memory is substituting that for what really takes place? :shrug:


:hi:

[hayu_lol]

25. Since most of us believe in the theory of ...

gravity, it seems more natural for the ball to drop down.

[tigereye]

28. no, I seem to remember when I was a kid it looked like

it went up rather than down. I'm not quite old enough for that kind of substitution yet, I don't think. :D

[charlie and algernon]

27. How about we give everyone in Times Square a helium balloon

so at midnight, a million balloons are let loose into the sky. How could would that look?

Of course 100,000 fish would die in the Hudson River and the Atlantic ocean from eating those balloons, but it would look awsome!