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Re: Water games

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Originally Posted by Magnetorb View Post
Robots can't swim in water without proper shielding, because water conducts electricity and you would have a monumental safety hazard. The robots we build all have electronics at least partially exposed, and shielding would be expensive.
Point of order: Pure water is, in fact, a terrible conductor of electricity. Really pure deionized water has resistances up to 20 megaOhms-cm. You could douse your robot in it and it'd be perfectly happy. Until it started leaching leaching ions from the steel, copper, etc. But up until then, it'd be just fine.

It'd be terribly expensive to fill a pool with water that pure, and even more so to keep it that pure... But still, it could totally happen if it meant there was a water game.
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