Can balloons survive this?!?
Everyone knows that a balloon will
blast
if pierced by one nail.
Now, what happens when the same balloon is kept over a 100 pins, just like the circus people lay over a bed of pins, and is subjected to a downward force of 40 pounds.
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Nothing!
Because, when a single pin is used to burst a balloon, the area of the point where the pin is pierced is very small.
And as the pressure is inversely proportional to area, the pressure is very high.
Next, if it is kept under a hundred balloons the pressure applied is very low, or the pressure is equally spread between all the pins and over the balloon!!