17-10-2006, 23:29
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
no team (6th Gear)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,940
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Re: Firing Softballs
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
The difference is that those racquet balls are significantly smaller in both volume, surface area, and mass. It will be MUCH harder to shoot a softball any considerable distance, especially over a long duration.
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I have a thought. Who wants to bet me that I can't use a Hangin' Around legal robot to heave a softball X horizontal inches and/or Y vertical inches?
Toss out some distances and tell me what you are willing to bet :-) Maybe some C-Channel? Maybe some of those expensive angle gussets?
I give my word of honor that right now I have neither a machine nor a design for one, that can toss a softball any distance at all.
My goal here isn't starting a betting parlor that uses Vex parts for currency; but instead there seem to be two camps here. Give me a fun challenge, some fun stakes to lust for, and let's see what I/we can do....
Any takers?
Blake
PS: Maybe the prize can be a piece of Vex metal that I get to write my name on. It stays mine until someone else beats my distance. Then I have to ship the trophy to them and they get to write their name above mine and cross mine out?
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