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Originally Posted by techalex
We also know that bumpers are involved, and if Bill annouced them that "early", we can assume there is a good deal of contact or at least multiple elements on the field they are trying to protect.
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So here goes my one, deeply researched, wild shot at the ecology of 2011's game. Never mind how old the Lavery reference is to Boxcar Willie in his picture post. The boxcar reference merely pulls us further away from the "truth" to Little Eva's Locomotion song. (I also like the "Back on Track" album title as the name of the game this year.)
Instead, delve backwards from the location of Willie's overpass memorial in Red Oak, Texas, part of Ellis county. It's a bridge over Interstate 35E for non-rail vehicles. Prominent in Ellis county history is a relatively recent underground, technological phenomenon. Construction work on it was begun about the time of FIRST's startup in 1991, only to be starved of funding by Congress in 1993. If I mentioned Waxahatchie, would your atoms begin to quiver? Only about a third of the 54-mile circumference was tunneled even though there were 17 access shafts excavated.
Yes, that's right. I'm talking about the Superconducting Super Collider project. My guess is that the six, on-field robots will be engaging in a series of super collisions.
Scoring? Maybe we'll be carrying accelerometers?
Crowd-pleasing? You BETCHA!
Loco-motion? Crazy, man, crazy! Ever hear of demolition derby? on a figure-8 track? We are going to have a pool-noodle flattening, aluminum bending, tire-spinning, full-bore crunch-fest that will be the absolute talk of FIRST's NEXT twenty years!