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Hmm I wonder where they're going, or coming from ....

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Canada.. possibly?

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what is it?

I'm not familiar with big green trailers =\

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For a second, that possibility worried me.... imagine the ThunderChickens and Simbots collaborating; even Beatty might have trouble beating the result of that duo. But then, I checked Google maps and found out that Sterling Heights, MI is north of Dayton, OH. Now I'm just puzzled instead of scared.

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omg!!!!!!! this is every FRC teams nightmare!

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Goes along with my theory here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...362#post681362

ThunderChickens have obviously moved south to evade the clutches of Karthik.

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Try the team logo painted on it. The number right below the big chicken head reads "217".

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Be afraid. Be very, very, graciously afraid.

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look at this thread and be afraid:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=62019

thunderchickens are in simbotics teaser!!!!!!!!!!!! be afraid!

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Wait, wait, wait. So now the question is
"Why did the chicken drive on the road?"
What a twist!

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I-70 E or I-75 N?

Maybe they were coming from Indiana.....

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OK ThunderChickens, reply to this thread!!!! what were you doing? if it wasn't you who was it!?

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I75 northbound

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No it's not. It just means the rest of us will have to make our coffee a lot stronger.

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hmmm... I found my next victim for IRI prank #2. :rolleyes:

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Can you say Thundering Chicken-Hawks?

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I'm surprised nobody else said this. Did you take this picture while driving? That's not very safe...:yikes:

JBot

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Of course you are right, kids don't try this at home. I'm a trained professional.

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I took pictures while riding a horse once ;).

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Arefin... count me in!

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How did you take the picture?:D

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the simbotic chickens :yikes:

OT: i tried to take a picture while doing a backflip didn't turn out to good

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The explanation is easy. Currently team 397's trailer is not owned by team 397 it is owned by my family. I use our rolling billboard to move large objects and when ever I move. Think about it, does a national champion team really need to collaborate with another team to win? I know a few people who have been on that team in the past and it is forbidden to leak out any information until it gets the ok.

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I'm not sure what you're looking at, but the picture being discussed here unquestionably shows the trailer of team 217, the ThunderChickens.

Unless you're claiming that you disguised your trailer to look like theirs?

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I am suggesting that someone from their team might be using the trailer for something other than robotics. :eek: Because the team might not own it, like my team does not.

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You might ask Division by Zero.

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Phone camera.

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Driving and using the cell phone and taking a picture with it. Where is your Safety Captain?

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You should see me using inventor while driving :yikes:

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wow pretty good resolution :D

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I'm pretty sure that's Derek Bessette driving. I think he was heading to Michigan to drop off a couple of arms, and then Indiana to pick up frames.

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scary... very scary to think about... 1114 and 217 vs. everybody... o snap

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Doesn't make sense, Karthik. This was on the NORTHbound side of a freeway in Ohio; Derek would need to be going SOUTH or WEST on a different freeway to pull off that maneuver (and wouldn't go into Ohio at all).

You don't scare me, other than the way 1114 normally does.

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:eek: :ahh:

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You know, there are moments in FIRST that make me smile a big goofy smile. This is one of those moments.
--
This thread had been fun.

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If you knew about Derek's sense of direction this route would make perfect sense. He usually waits until the last minute to call OnStar.

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Is Derek an old bald buy?

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No no... you're thinking of Karthik. :rolleyes:

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I saw kids from their Highschool today in Pontiac!

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Uh oh....

ThunderDelphi?

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You should have seen the route they took to/from IRI last year. We told them they didn't have to spend all that money on the Ohio Toll Road, but Nooo ...

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so where is that team from anyway:confused:

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Team 217 is from Sterling Heights, Michigan a suburb of Detroit.

217+1038 two of the top teams in the country collaborating, these are the things that scare me to death. If that happens I don't know if I will be able to deal with that much amazing.

217+1114+45??=2008 Championship

Thanks, I thought I only needed to be afraid of the Monster from Cloverfield. That combination is much more dangerous, and would graciously destroy the competition on their way to the championship.

One Other theory
148+217, Northbound on I-75, could have gone to Greenville , Texas to drop off a certain riveted frame and Copioli and JVN do have a history together.

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I personally can't believe this thread has gone to 3 pages.

lol.

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Tell us what you guys were doing and we can close it out.

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That's what a strong, consistent, and excellent reputation will do for you. :)

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Or a bunch of people with WAAAAAAAY too much time, probably a combination of the two though...I'll just pretend I know what they were doing.:]

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Right.....cuz everyone in FIRST has so much time on their hands right now. (PS...if you do come down and give us a hand)

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Heck, I'm bored. This thread gives me something to read.

/me ducks and gets back to work...

Paul, Ron... I'm glad you made it to Campbell's place ok, after stopping off at Perry Meridian. It's good that you took Raul's suggestion about filling up the tires even though Darrell said they were going to be fine.

See you next week.

Andy B.

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The thought of a Thunderchicken inspired collaborative effort between superteams forces me to call, "FOWL". :rolleyes:

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He will be one day - ba da bump!

Many people follow that advice, as if Ohio is Mordor or something.

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ThunderHuskies better.
They were at GM :P

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Oh oh. I-75 goes to Florida too!

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Sorry, I had seen that you posted:


I made the immediate connection to 47. My bad. Either way, that's pretty intense.
Can't wait to see what happens!

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The trailer was actually on its way back from Florida on some undisclosed business.

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Why you gotta be all serious about it. No point in keeping it a secret that it was picking up our new, Super-SpaZtik-Chikkin drive system that rabbits at 38 fps and hurdles both balls simultaneously (without actually breaking the no possessing 2 balls rule). It's made of a classified elemental material that can only be found in places where it's naturally warm year round (obviously not in Michigan). You saw it on northbound, right? Coming back from the special trip.

:)

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http://www.weather.com/weather/pastw.../45459?when=-3

nuff said

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Hey, I just said it was coming north from somewhere south. Say, Atlanta.. or Florida (which Mihai already said).. or Texas..

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Although this is a really funny thread, I have to tell the truth.

The trailer was on its way back from Texas (Greenville) picking up parts that 148 made for us and dropping off parts that we made for 148, 254, and 968 (see Travis' picture posted on very familiar looking machined parts).

148 made parts for us and 254 / 968 so it was easier for us to just drop off the parts to 148. One of our parents was already going to the Dallas area with the trailer, so we decided to save on shipping

We own the trailer as it was donated last year to us by a few of our sponsors, but we lend it out to parents and other ThunderChicken supporters.

By the way, 217 would never collaborate with 1114 becasue they are crazy and they talk funny.

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And we're proud of it. ;)

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I don't believe that you are collaborating with both 254 and 968. Cory said that there is not a third team in their collaboration. And both teams have very good machining capabilities.

148, I might buy. But the paragraph about the trailer being lent out could indicate that a parent/supporter was at the wheel of the tow vehicle.

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they may ahve the abilities but who would deny help? they arent necesarily vcollaborating just helping each other out in a graciously professional way :]

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Oops. You let the Chicken out of the bag, Paul!

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Copioli said in somewhere that 254/968 borrowed the drawings from their swerve drive a few years back, and putting two and two together i think it is pretty safe to assume that 254/968, 148 and 217 are all using the same swerve drive base and that 217 built. That is why in all of the 254/968 pictures there have been so many of the same parts, not for a practice, but for there 4 part semi-collaboration. It probably will wind up being a lot like the 217/229 collaboration from a few years back with them being fraternal twins, similar designs but different in many ways.

Then again this is all speculation and guessing on my part, it could just be they needed shafts and bearings from 254/968 and not anything more.

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FIRSTruth has a very interesting insight into this thread, even though Paul has supposedly debunked it. We shall wait and see...

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Hey, are the Chickens going to go out of their way to come to the Wisconsin Regional? (AKA The Second Largest Competition This Year, Aside From Cincinatti, if I have my facts straight) That would just make the competition. You guys sound really cool.

PS: If you DO come, bring a shovel. Or a robot-mounted snowplow.

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I believe the largest regional this year is GTR with 65 teams. Following that are VCU (64), NJ (63), NY (63), GLR (63), Connecticut (62), Florida (61), and Wisconsin (60). I may have missed some 60+ team regionals (I only checked ones I thought were likely to have a ton of teams), but I'm pretty certain those are all, or near all, of them. So Wisconsin is only about the 8th largest, but any regional above sixty teams is pretty large, in my opinion. The morals of the story? If you want to go to really big regionals, go east of the Mississippi. And that everything's bigger in Texas Canada.

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They're going to Great Lakes, Detroit, and St. Louis.

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I deeply resent that statement John. Have you been to Texas?

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Yep, I've been to both Texas and Canada. Trust me, everything is bigger in Canada... the snowfall, the country side, the FIRST regionals, the waterfalls, the taxes, the antennas, the oil reserves...

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Was there a ThunderChicken trailer sighting at the MWR?

Wonder if Paul was just trying to cover up the Sim-Chicken collaboration that we all fear...:)

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There is no Sim-Chicken collaboration (or if there is, you couldn't tell it by looking at these bots).

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I know I'm reviving somewhat of a dead thread, but some of the speculation on collaborations of 217 based on the trailer's whereabouts is interesting, given that 1114-217-148 won championship, and they were all mentioned in here.

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I wasn't sure how to say "I told you so" in a GP fashion.;)

Thanks for taking care of that for me!!