The topic of this story is Balls. Real Balls. Not HA HA Balls – serious balls. Science balls. I know as well as you do that it would be real easy to just throw in a lot of testicle humor and hope for a few cheap laughs, maybe even a high-five or two. But I hope that you appreciate the fact that I took the high-road on this one and just stuck to the balls at hand. I hope you understand that if anything is going to be coming out of my mouth for this story, it’s going to be balls, balls, balls. Blogging can be a real juggling act at times, but rest assured – this time the only thing that I am going to be juggling is balls. Two, perfect balls. Check it out!

This [above picture] is one of the two most perfect spheres ever. Exactly one kilogram—Imperial units be damned forever—smooth to the nearest 0.0000000003 meter (1.18110236 × 10-8 inches), and round to within 0.00000005 meters (1.96850394 × 10-6 inches). They were made using silicon by metrologists from the by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

I would sure like to see those balls! Hold them and see how smooth they are. I wonder what they feel like if you roll them together in your hand? Seriously though, I had no idea that until now, July 15th 2009, there were no perfect balls on this planet! Sure, there were OK balls and acceptable balls, I have seen plenty of great looking balls – but even the very best balls were still far from perfect. It’s not like balls are something new. It took this long to get perfect balls? Geeze, balls have been around since the Stone Age! It’s true! I read that after a long, victorious hunt, Cave People used to go back to their cave where they would play with each others balls by the fire to relax. You have to remember that they didn’t have TV back then so a nice set of balls must have been fascinating to early man. Well, it may have taken thousands of years of ball evolution, but we finally did it! Perfect Balls! Way to go us!

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