Trouble in Archimedes
 

FIRST News – “the FIRST to report the truth”
By Andy Baker

ATLANTA:

The city is experiencing X-Treme Heat (223), since some LuNaTeCs (316) dumped a truckload of Element 945 (945) into the Underground today. “It sounded like some Deep Thunder (147) combined with High Voltage (231)… pretty wicked!” said BP (360) O’Gorman (982) from the Quad City (648) area. This happened in the Archimedes division, and luckily the Newton, Galileo, and Curie divisions had no contamination.

Onlookers quickly started Screaming at the Team (1037) of Nautae (974) hooligans who were acting like a bunch of Delphi Demons (858). But they gave no other Resistance (86).

Authorities were called in to tackle this anti-Paragon (571). Even the FEDS (201) have gotten involved, along with local SWATT (1088) teams and tech-savvy L33T Crews (521). While some may think this is Robbextreme (56), others want even more personnel to be involved. The chief of police neither denies or admits to calling in the Megaforce Squadron (814), the Arctic Warriors (174) or the Rhode Warriors (121) to ComBBat (21) the WildStang (111) bunch that did this. “We’ve got our best crews on it”, says KD (606) Cooney (269), Atlanta chief of police. “We heard that the kids who did this are from the Hammond (71) area, but we are not sure.”

It would appear that the substance had lethal affects, turning friendly FEMBOTS (692) into a episode of U.R.R., Ultimate (922) Rampage Robotics (459).

Many questions have been brought up regarding the severity of this strange element. While it is usually used in building a variety of robots, from Probots (301) to Pyrobots (1396) and Beachbots (330), it is not used in SieH20Bots (237) and Crandroids (448). According to robotic expert Montclair (555) Rice (870), “The newer forms of robots do not use Dexterous Gearheads (102) and therefore need Burning Magnetos (342) to Red Jam (311) the robot’s Dynamos (250). That is where this scarce element comes in to play. With this new technology, the Circuit Runners (1002) can transfer many more Kil-a-bytes (1024) under lower Voltage (386).” He seemed to be armed to Infinity (900) with this information, as he continued “However, there are some drawbacks. Some Tyranical Mechanicals (1272) did not obey the Second Law Enforcers (178) when using some material recently, and they came up with a Bionic Bulldog (60). Others created RoboDogs (435) and the Huskie Brigade (65) was not pleased at all. Some Huskies (1112) were even hurt when approaching these RoboDawgs (288). Also, I have heard that other careless users have made smaller, but equally deadly mistakes by creating Killer Bees (33), RoboBees (836). They are surely shuffling a deck of Killer Kards (136).”

While this is interesting, it is still a mystery as to Who CTEKS (716) knows where this stuff came from. Theory 6 (1241) states that it even came from an ancient Minotaur (1369). Others claim that Martians (494) brought it to earth after being shot down by the Eagle Corps (1158) in the great Eagle Robotics (399) wars of the 90’s. Some don’t even care… they just want these perpetrators jousted into space by the NASA Knights (122) or Robo Knights (1315).

There were rumored reports that the AIS (1414), the American Intelligence Service was looking into this case, but Deputy-general Holly High (1141) could not be reached for contact.

The only lead that currently is guiding the investigative team is that a TechnoKat (45) was picked up for TechnoJay(94)-walking outside of the Underground right before the attack happened. He was speaking in Arab Robotics (548), about some Woburn (188) TechnoTiger (966) who wanted to go to Palo Alto (8). There was a car waiting for him, a late model Adidaron (476) XHS (806), made by Alpine Robotics (159). While this did not make any sense, it seemed to coincide with the craziness of the day.

Then again, this all may be happening because there is some crazy robotics contest in town next week, but who cares about that?

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LOL!!!!

That is absolutly hilarious Andy I have no clue how you are able to come up with those every years for the division. I dont even think I would be able to find all of the team names much less create such a story around them!

P.S. thanks for adding "the tech-savvy L33T CREW"!!!!! :p You truly are amazing wiht what you have done with not only the story but everything kudos Andy, I know this isn't the only thing you have done for the CD fmaily and look forwards to meeting you at the Championships in Georgia!!!! You do Archimedes proud!!!! :D

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Very nice!

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Andy, you have just now made my list of people to meet at Nats.. lol
Not that I didn't want to meet you before, but this story just put you on the list for sure..

See you in Archimedes.

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wow Andy i have to commend your large ammount of free time but i cant help but feel left out you didn't mention The L33T CREW(521) Haha? Great little story nonetheless heh good luck in georgia hope to see you there !


I mean really wow too much free time... haha

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Crap... it's still new enough to edit. I think that a part of the story needs to be altered. :)

BTW... free time, I have that this week. I am on vacation, and compiling a "scouting sheet" for Archimedes. This story is just a by-product.

AB

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Andy Baker is now officially the only person with more free time than I ... (crawls sheepishly back to Curie Division)

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ahh i can feel my own coolness rise... ok so i cant but thanks for working us in !

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I only count 66 Andy. This story only works if the whole division is in it. :)

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wow, andy, that's amazing! i wish i had that kind of writing talent! i'm not even in archimedes and i'm impressed! hope to see you for a brief bit at nationals!

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hahaha i love it....gj andy

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Well... ya know, I just can't find the names to some of these teams. They either have a website that is down or it just points to the school's website.

Hey... I could use a follow-up story. Someone else in Archimedes can come along and update my "article" by putting these teams (and their names, if they can get them) into a story: 352, 459, 692, 922, 1112, 1141 /edit... not 1140/, 1414.

Andy

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how about....

....It would appear the Element 945 (945) that spilled from the overturned truck had lethal affects, turning friendly FEMBOTS (692) into a episode of U.R.R., Ultimate (922) Rampage Robotics (459)...

...The local crime units are also relying on rescue dogs, such as the Huskies (1112), which have been brought from around the area including North America, Brazil and Britain, to search through the rubble for any survivors reports Officer Griffin(1141)...


Sorry I dont know what 1414's team name is I think it is just "AIS robotics"
inwhich case you might use AIS as an accronym for something like ....

members of the American Intelligence Service, AIS (1414), were also witnessed as to being on scene after the incident

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*claps*.. wow. you even managed to work in our weird school name..


i think everyone else has just been woburn'd! by mr baker here =)

brilliant! see you in a couple of days now = D

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MisterX, thanks! Time for some editing.

Andy

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Wow, this is awesome!


Very nice job, Andy! :D

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Wow, that is amazing :D

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Very nice!
Team 836 the Robobees.

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Wow, again! Quoting myself from last year "I'm amazed and scared at the same time." hmmm..does Andy really have an engineering degree? :P

For those of you who didn't catch Andy's story last year you can read it here.

:)

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wow mr. baker, you have amazed me again. I thought last years story was great, but this one blows it away!

Great Job and Good Luck To Everyone in this AWESOME divison :)

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This story is so great. They should make a super reputation category that's called "Andy Baker like" and it should include about 20 green boxes.

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Ahhh... one of my favorite things I look forward to before Nationals :) Great story again this year, Andy! I'm glad we're in your division and get to be a part of the story.

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Haha! You ever think about taking up poetry or writing? Looks like you're pretty skillful at it :) I like it a lot! Good luck at Nationals!

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You know... that is a good question. No, I have not written much poetry, but I do like to write when I have time.

Thank you all for the kind comments.

Speaking of writing...

(oh, no... here's goes Andy again...)

If you look at the some of the more respected people on these Forums, you will notice that they all have one thing in common: they know how to write.

You wonder why JVN is well-respected? He can write. He clearly can express his feelings and opinions in writing. So can Dave Lavery, Joe Johnson, Ken Leung, and many others. Sure, you may not agree with everything these people say, but you must admit that they can write well.

So, do you want respect? You want people to listen to you? Then put your effort into your words. Choose them well. Take your time and show the readers in this community some respect by proofing your work, taking the time to spell things correctly, and thinking about what you write before spilling your emotions hastily onto the keyboard.

A good rule that I use is this: each post I write could be read by over 1,000 people. The effort I put into my writing makes it easier for each of those people to read what I have to say. Then, when they see another post by me, they are inclined to read it.

Side note:
Please wait to read this, as I am going back over my note and proofing it - for your sake and mine. :)

Andy B.

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Well done, Andy! I am in awe of your wittiness. I only wish that I could come up with something like that.

Leave it to those kids from the Hammond area to cause something like that....=)

Bravo!

Kev :ahh:

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Ok, why can't some of us college students have that much time, I mean, seriously if we had that much time we might actually get to sleep at night as opposed to being the freaks of nature we are. Oh well, great story Andy, thanks from 900 for including us and good luck to all in Archie. See you all there and hopefully Archie will take home the championship this year.

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And someone once said that I was the one with too much time on my hands!!!

Holy narration, Batman! What has become of the world! When well-respected, known-to-be-nerdy, engineers turn to artistic prose - and it turns out to be both readable and entertaining - will all our assumptions about never mixing engineering and art have to fall by the wayside?! Will all the other universal constants be next?! What will become of our understanding of the world! * Could global understanding of the Lewis equation and Adaptive Huffman Coding be next?!

Tune in tomorrow and find out! Same Bat-time! Same Bat-channel!

-dave

(* just maybe it will be a slightly more fun place to be! Good job, Andy! :) )

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Do I see a tradition forming?

It's a good tradition.

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The benefit of being in the same division as the Technokats is that your team gets included in Andy's story :). The drawback is that your team has to compete against the Technokats :ahh:.

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I'm more worried about Andy blaming 111 for causing the trouble. Will he unleash the entire division on us and not just 814, 174, 121 and 22? :)

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I think it is safe to say that the Megaforce Squadron did not ComBBat the WildStangs...

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Very cool, but i have i little complaint. OUR NUMBER IS 1140 NOT 1141 OR 1040. sorry but we got jiped on an allaince because sombody got our number wrong