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But Dave, I am seeing my family. I'm looking over my son's shoulder as he reads the Game Hint thread right now. It is great bonding time. Besides what else is there to talk about? ;) Families and FIRST they really go together!

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hmmm that would go well with the idea that the contest is dave against 5 robots to see who can eat more...

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Dave. Robots can't "eat" persay.

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Of course they can Adam,

Cory 1065: it uses chemicals to break down the protiens or digest small animals like flies and mosquetos and converts the proteins into mechanical energy
Cory 1065: i dont know how its done
Cory 1065 : but its done


...and yes when i use trillian, i organize people by name and team number hehe

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Okay, to clearify it was a program I was watching on the discovery channel, and it was being used in the robotics field to help build power supplies that do no needh human intervention. I do remember that the power cell they used with using the flies would take 3 days of "digesting" for 5 minutes of movement.

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We better start charging the cells now!

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Just for reference, the post i'm referring to is here

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...when you go off topic on whether or not robots could eat,
...When your parents get you a digital multimeter for christmas and its the first thing you play with

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...when you get a digital multimeter for Christmas and there's only one reason it isn't the first thing you play with. You also got digital calipers, and start making detailed, measured diagrams of common household objects (scotch tape dispenser, paper cutter, etc.) to model in Inventor, "just for fun".

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You know you've been in FIRST to long:

1. When most of your T-shirts are old team uniforms and FIRST crew shirts from 10 years ago.
2. When your spouse (who doesn't sew) offers to make all those old shirts into a a quilt.
3. When you continuously find 20 and 30 amp circuit breakers in odd places like seat cushions and lint traps.
4. When January doesn't start until the first Saturday of the New Year.
5. when you have an opportunity to go to the party at Dean's house and skip it in order to experience the January Night Life in Manchester.
6. When you say, "Oh No, not another ride on a Segway!"
7. and "Oh No, not another homework assignment."

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-When you know all the word to the Cha Cha Slide, and have these uncontrolable urges to dance when ever someone says left or right.

-When you forget what birthday cake tastes like without metal shavings in it.(havent had a metal-less cake since 4th grade, and imm almost done with High school now)

-The first famous person you ever met in FIRST was Jeb Bush( If anyone remembers, that was about 7 years ago)

-when your done early with a test,flip the paper over, and imediatly start drawing FIRST symbols,and designing a new team T-Shirt(I'm guilty of that, its not even funny)

-When you pray for just enough snow to keep the soda cold outside the metal shop door.

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There's nothing wrong with that...is there? :ahh:

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when your first thought after waking up is "gee, i wonder if anything new's been posted on Chief Delphi..."

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My team hasn't even been to FIRST yet and half of those thigns apply to us :ahh:

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~when you start calculating the ammount of pizza and soda u have consumed in the last 6 weeks-courtsey of my best friend from team 103