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Re: Team 1089 robot going to Rutgers!

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Originally posted by Tton
Just because we didnt explain what are robot does enough im going to say it real fast:

Sure, you weigh 165lbs, but that's a useless statistic without the coefficient of friction of whatever is between you and the floor. 90 foot wingspan? Wow, that's impressive.

I don't mean to rain on your parade in any way, but qualitative data is almost useless in an engineering profession. You can't just tell your boss, "It took half my strength to break this part." It says nothing useful about the strength of the part, because it's relying on your strength, an unknown amount, and your abilities to accurately guage your strength.

Also, you should probabaly post this in the Existing thread for your robot. If every team made 5 threads on their robot, this wouldn't be much of a robot gallery. It would be morely a war on who can spam their way to the top. It's useless to do that, because any good team knows not to base their strategy solely on pictures and qualitative data.


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Last edited by Jnadke : 10-03-2003 at 13:37.