Posted by Anton Abaya at 1/25/2001 10:04 PM EST
Coach on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NONE AT THE MOMENT!

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In Reply to: Re: Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly
Posted by Matt Leese on 1/25/2001 5:23 PM EST:
: : All the best to your team ... "May your wheels have infinite mu and your CG never fall outside the borders of your footprint". (Only a FIRSTer would understand)
: : Thanx, Ernie P
: Infinite Mu you say? As nice as that sounds, you gotta remember that you've got to out power static friction to get going at all and that has it's own Mu. With infinite Mu you'd be sitting there for the entire two minute match.
: And as far as getting behind goes, there's this excellent quote from an engineer on my old team: "The sooner you get behind, the longer you have to catch up."
: Matt
I WILL NEVER SLEEP UNDER A TABLE AGAIN.
-anton