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Realism - Right on
Posted by Mike Aubry at 1/9/2001 9:50 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chiefs, from Pontiac Central and Delphi .


In Reply to: I'm with ya... but also realism
Posted by Andy Baker on 1/8/2001 11:14 PM EST:



Andy

: We have tried hard to be honest over the past two years. The difficulty of honest communication is more about how much wishful thinking your team uses.

This is so very true and I'm glad that you pointed it out. This is a trap that many veteran teams and alot of rookie teams fall into. Everyone at some time or other does this. Alot of it is due to our strong competitive nature - ie: "I just know we can do it, we did it once in practice and I'm not giving up until I prove it to ya" - oops - this year that could really hurt not only your team, but the other 3 on the alliance. What is even more disturbing is that in this next "less that 6 weeks" many teams will design and build something that they really and truely don't know will work. Time will run out, and the practice rounds will be where they get to see if they can do what they say they can. Unfortunately, this is a killer game this year. Do the math, physics, or engineering - bad headaches will result as the outcomes of free body diagrams, force vector analysis, and mathmatical calculations related to frictional forces, masses and cg's, etc. are arrived at. This is one of those problems that looks easy to do, but gets proportionately more difficult with the actual attempt to accomplish it. Teeter's and ramp angles and counterbalances and goals that are unstable and worst of all the added pressure of the clock. Bad headaches - I tell ya. "TICK, TOCK, TICK, TOCK - NOW IT'S TIME TO STOP THE CLOCK!" That's my offering for this years universal cheer. Good Luck, let's keep sharing thoughts and ideas. Tomorrow, I'll post where our heads are at as far as what we think is important to accomplish to be successful this year. In other words - our take on playing the game. Better, if we run our thoughts past ya, then to think about it in a vacuum and then find out we were way off.



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