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[BananaStand]

Did Tom Brady do it?

Scientifically speaking, how likely is it that the 'ideal gas law' resulted in deflating footballs before 2014 AFC Championship game.

[Savy]

Scientifically speaking, how likely is it that the 'ideal gas law' resulted in deflating footballs before 2014 AFC Championship game.

Not ideal.

#bestsciencejoke2k17

Yeah but this is messy and more annoying than simply having a wet coaster stick to the bottom of the glass when I pick it up.

Ok, well keep your windows open. That's a free solution that will keep humidity low, perhaps low enough to eliminate condensation when you put ice in the drink. I assume it's warm enough to have the windows open if it's warm enough to have ice in your drink. If you're one of these morons who has ice in drinks in winter, then I don't care about your humidity problems to be quite honest. I hope you have a mouldy bathroom.

Here is the clever bit, enough kitchen roll so that the bottom piece doens't become wet then you just pick up that bottom bit and magic easy to clean up. Still both my solutions aren't even close to solving the problem just much easier lazy ways to deal with it.

I usually have my window open, I like my room being quite cold.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Scientifically speaking, how likely is it that the 'ideal gas law' resulted in deflating footballs before 2014 AFC Championship game.

Quite likely.

Historically, the story goes back to Archimedes of Syracuse ca 250 BCE. He studied buoyancy and density for the first time in recorded western history.

Jump forward 1850 years to Gallileo (ca 1600), who demonstrated that changes in temperature of a fluid cause it to change its density, too.

Then another 50 years or so to Pascal and Boyle (ca 1650) demonstrating that force equals pressure times area and that the pressure times the volume of a closed system is constant.

Then about 1800 it all takes off. Charles Law (1787) that volume over temperature is a constant. About the same time Avogadro did his seminal work in chemistry and told us his namesake number, 6.022(10)^23. In 1809 Gay-Lussac showed that pressure over temperature of a closed system is also constant.

Then a 35 year old in 1834 named Emil Clapeyron was all, "lolz, PV = nRT, ya noobs. Get gud."

This is all pretty well documented, too. In famous old books that people been talking about for centuries in other books.

[BananaStand]

Quite likely.

Fuck off. Tom Brady did that shit.

If it's so likely, how come balls being under-inflated wasn't a problem for the previous 90 something years in the NFL? There were other games played on cold days