Oh, I really hope you people are joking in considering this...

Its always amusing to see dead threads come back, and the people that joined in the time that it was dead not read all the posts and post the same thing that had been similarely previously posted prior to the joining of the new users, particularly new to the dead thread.


Wetzel
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Dave teaches

Actually, there is talk of an aquarium being built in Atlanta. I'm not sure this is still discussion of building it, or working on how and where to build it.

Possibly this is why Atlanta is to be the home of Championships for the next three years? They have three water games planned out where they want to use the new aquarium for competition?

Alot of robotics research has been done for underwater situations for robots that explore shipwrecks and other parts of the ocean too deep for humans to explore. This might be another way to tie FIRST in with real-world stuff.

This is going to be great!

First I get to call physical plant at my school:

Me: "Hi, Jay, its Gabriel, you know how you offered to let us use that big room on the second floor of the brand new athletic center?"
Jay: Yeah
Me: ...yeah, well is it alright if we flood the place?
Jay: WHAT????
Me: How 'bout if we just take over the pool for six weeks, remove all the lane-lines and crap and drain it to the appropriate level?
*CLICK*

(Actually, I think they might actually go for the idea, when we were getting tours of campus on orientation the Aquatics Director said: "we don't like to think of it as a pool, we like to think of it as an aquatics experience center" - they've had such silliness as a performance of The Tempest and a "multimedia rave" in the pool)

But imagine how much fun retrieving robots after competition is over will be. We'll all get to dress up like fishermen!

And then there are the regionals, where they'll have to turn theatre stages and parts of colliseum floors into giant bathtubs. Maybe it would work at Reliant Park (IIRC they had big drains on the field) but I don't think it would go over too well at the Meadows theatre.

And how are you going to keep the water on the field? If its a few inches deep I'd imagine that robots would spray water everywhere, if its a few feet deep how is the audience going to see the competition? Are you going to build giant plexiglass walls around each field?

Then at the end of each day we could have a big Mopping party where everyone mops up the pits.

You might also run into problems changing the battery or doing any other sort of electrical work on a sopping wet robot. Most people in the pits are careful, but I've run into more than a few morons (including myself) who might create some serious litigatable issues.

On the plus side however we'd all get to say "Arrr" and "To the starboard Captain!" and "Captain! Hull Integrity Failing - we have to engage the emergency tertiary phase-matrix-reduction unit" -- not that some of us don't say those things anyway...

I think its a great idea and I'd do it in a heartbeat, I just don't think any sane person would.

Actually, why bother with robots at all? It would be a hell of a lot more fun to just build real ships with cannon and everything and compete in the local harbor. There could be some serious broadside action! And think of the plank-walking opportunities! And I heard there was a decommissioned WWII Aircraft Carrier on sale a little while ago and I might know of a few places to get some 19th century cannon, I mean, they're just sitting there, nobody's using them, I'm sure they won't mind if we take a couple off their hands.

This is going to be great!

First I get to call physical plant at my school:

Me: "Hi, Jay, its Gabriel, you know how you offered to let us use that big room on the second floor of the brand new athletic center?"
Jay: Yeah
Me: ...yeah, well is it alright if we flood the place?
Jay: WHAT????
Me: How 'bout if we just take over the pool for six weeks, remove all the lane-lines and crap and drain it to the appropriate level?
*CLICK*

(Actually, I think they might actually go for the idea, when we were getting tours of campus on orientation the Aquatics Director said: "we don't like to think of it as a pool, we like to think of it as an aquatics experience center" - they've had such silliness as a performance of The Tempest and a "multimedia rave" in the pool)

But imagine how much fun retrieving robots after competition is over will be. We'll all get to dress up like fishermen!

And then there are the regionals, where they'll have to turn theatre stages and parts of colliseum floors into giant bathtubs. Maybe it would work at Reliant Park (IIRC they had big drains on the field) but I don't think it would go over too well at the Meadows theatre.

And how are you going to keep the water on the field? If its a few inches deep I'd imagine that robots would spray water everywhere, if its a few feet deep how is the audience going to see the competition? Are you going to build giant plexiglass walls around each field?

Then at the end of each day we could have a big Mopping party where everyone mops up the pits.

You might also run into problems changing the battery or doing any other sort of electrical work on a sopping wet robot. Most people in the pits are careful, but I've run into more than a few morons (including myself) who might create some serious litigatable issues.

On the plus side however we'd all get to say "Arrr" and "To the starboard Captain!" and "Captain! Hull Integrity Failing - we have to engage the emergency tertiary phase-matrix-reduction unit" -- not that some of us don't say those things anyway...

I think its a great idea and I'd do it in a heartbeat, I just don't think any sane person would.

Actually, why bother with robots at all? It would be a hell of a lot more fun to just build real ships with cannon and everything and compete in the local harbor. There could be some serious broadside action! And think of the plank-walking opportunities! And I heard there was a decommissioned WWII Aircraft Carrier on sale a little while ago and I might know of a few places to get some 19th century cannon, I mean, they're just sitting there, nobody's using them, I'm sure they won't mind if we take a couple off their hands.

I think that a water competition would be great!

We have to build our robot in the summer!

So we could test it on us! To freshen up! Maybe put some ice inside it to cool the water!

Ahhh.... I love to see this come back... every year. It's like clockwork.

Just like the changing of seasons, it comes, the rookies like, the vets cringe in pain.

Hmmm... speaking of pools and water competitions...

In October of 2004, the World Swimming Championships will be held in downtown Indianapolis. The main pool will be in Conseco Fieldhouse, where the Indiana Pacers play.

From what I heard, there is only a week and a half available for the Fieldhouse to be converted over to a world-class natitorium (fancy word for swimming pool).

It will be a 25 meter pool.

Andy B.

:p

Comon - we all went throught this stage - let the rookies have their fun! :)

I know, but I'm still in pain.

water competition
 

Its awasome to think about but it would be even more awasome to see it happen.:]

Awesome to see happen...maybe but seriously...no sane person would ever want to put anything eletrical built by highschool students into water! I would be the person 7000 ft away from the arena....just in case! I mean...comon....we had enough robots set themselves on fire on the fields last year as it was. *shake her head* You're all nuts. However....if you want to play a FIRST game in a pool I recommend you play Marco-Polo in the hotel's pool at First and thus....problem solves. Heck...invite all the teams to play if you like but just make sure no one gets squashed. Never the less.....the idea is...amusing.

Students+Robots+Water...



Enough said.....................................

has anyone considered their might be a reason why the new breakers are waterproof? just a though...