Stand aside Michael Jordan , because ex - Washington Redskins linebacker Ken Harvey has been lurch NASA scientist and speculation capitalist alike on a high construct sport : Float Ball . Planned for locale including space shuttles , the Moon and even Mars , needless to say , it ’s a crazy idea . Actually , grave that . It ’s only a half - crazy mind . Float Ball is a compounding of football and basketball game in a zero gravitation environs . Players bounce their direction through the court , ricocheting off the floor , roof , obstacles and other players . The destination is to project the ball through the basket . The big goal is to bewilder your player with the ball through the hoop — a manoeuvre we ’re coining right this second as the space jam . Despite Harvey ’s popularity blank space entertainment circles , he has no design on how to fund the space sport . But he does n’t expect the vision to actualize over night . Astronaut physical fitness program coupled with VR simulator would of course progress into high-pitched stakes competitive sportutainment . And while he may be correct , Harvey forgets about one matter : Geeks detest jocks . So go build your own spaceship , a’hole . [ NYT ]
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