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Originally Posted by Thayer McCollum
The catapult was powered by four 500lb springs. ---The best part about it is it scared the safety inspectors to death, so in order to pass inspection the inspector told us if a team member stuck their hand in the springs when they were extended and held their hand there for 5 seconds we would pass inspection. So a guy from our team volunteered and promptly put his hand in the spring. A spring that, if its mounts failed would slam closed and crush his fingers into oblivion.
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Originally Posted by Knufire
So a volunteer forced a student to put themselves in a risky, unsafe situtation in order to demonstrate that the robot was safe? 
Am I the only one that fails to understand this logic? |
No, you're not alone there. I'm questioning whether this actually happened.