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An article describes the newest missile defense scheme--75-miles-per-minute space cannonballs.
These “monkeys” held pyramids of cannonballs for each gun in a muzzleloading battery on a battleship.
5. "These dwarfs may look insubstantial, but they are like cannonballs to a giant galaxy."
If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.
As for the square brass monkey with circular depressions for stacking cannonballs, it would have to contract a great deal more than the iron balls to cause them to tumble.