Glow in the dark tape measure (2014 game hint)

[Longrange97]

So one of my team mates accidently walked in on the deans list ceremony while they were going over what the teams will get in their totes and at one point Blaine (the MC for Galileo) and he said "the next item will help you in the 2014 game...a glow in the dark tape measure"
I believe that this is a very important clue. the following is my theory on the meaning of the clue

ok so i have been thinking. in the early 20th century people used the element radium to make things like watches glow in the dark. radium is the element directly preceding the actinides. and a element called americium is in the actinides (named after america, the home country of FIRST ROBOTICS)... americium is used as an ionizer in home fire alarms (why they put radiation warnings on fire alarms). so this obviously has to do with fire.
and this brings me to my next point. "why would you need a glow in the dark tape measure?". you may have bad vision in the dark... what helps night vision... carrots. and what else is orange? THAT'S RIGHT, FIRE!!! and you know what else is orange? the sun! what is the sun made of? hydrogen. thus i conclude that our robots will need to be powered by (orange?) hydrogen fuel cells. also the waste from hydrogen fulel cells is water... it has to be a water game... and where there's water there is fire, and where there's fire there is hot air, and where there's hot air there is hot air balloons. so the only explanation is there is a secondary challenge where we need a flying mini bot(ftc?). also sandbags are used to weigh down sand bags. so that must mean there is a sand field in the middle of the field.

back to americium... if you add up the values for all the letters in "Orange" (ascii) and subtract that value (604)from 610 (team number for 2013 champions) you get 6. the 6th element in the actinides is plutonium. the half life of plutonium 241 is 14 years. if you take half the half life of plutonium 241 you get 7. americium is the 7th element in the actinides. confirming my fire theory thus confirming the flying ftc bots.

and plutonium is used as the core of a fusion bomb. besides plutonium or uranium a fusion bomb contains deuterium and tritium... isotopes of hydrogen. again confirming my theory of a water game, and being powered by hydrogen. speaking of uranium they also used uranium to color glass in the early 20th century... bringing us all of the way back to radium.

also if you take the atomic numbers for americium, plutonium and uranium. add them, then divide that value by 610 it is 46% multiply 46 by 2... what does that equal that's right 92 the atomic number of uranium. so we will also be able to use depleted uranium parts on our robots next year

im sure that this is just the beginning of all we will discover with this amazing hint. tell me if you have anything to add on to this

[connor.worley]

An FLL theme about tackling the challenge of nuclear waste actually seems possible. It also has nothing to do with the original hint, but still.

[fb39ca4]

Anyone else think the measuring tape game at the power tools booth could be expanded into an FRC game?

[Iaquinto.Joe]

Originally Posted by fb39ca4

Anyone else think the measuring tape game at the power tools booth could be expanded into an FRC game?

Can you explain the game?

[coalhot]

I call red herring

OH MY GOD. MAYBE....JUST MAYBE.....We'll have to measure our parts twice, and then cut them once while machining them! It's a BREAKTHROUGH!

[Nick Lawrence]

Stop. It's sleeping season.

-Nick

[2789_B_Garcia]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

Stop. It's sleeping season.

-Nick

AMEN! Why am I even on here?!?!?

[kristinweiss]

just to clarify the tape measures are not actually glow in the dark but instead have a flashlight on them

[Qcom]

A nuclear game? Marie Curie was a nuclear scientist... maybe they are going to somehow scew the game to favour the curie divison. I can see the rules now:

G35: All FOULS and TECHNICAL FOULS caused by the CURIE divison during the einstien playoffs will be negated compeletey.

[Roger]

Originally Posted by marandola316

The 16 is in red because the standard distance apart to put studs in a wall is 16 inches. On most tape measures the numbers are in red every 16 inches.

Betcha didn't even notice the black diamonds every 19.2" (it's not quite 19-3/16").

That does sound like an interesting tape measure game.

[evanperryg]

I think we may be going in completely the wrong direction. Maybe we will use the tape measures for some kind of extending thing (My team almost did this to make a level 2 climber) and the light might be used for the retroreflective tape that they use on the vision targets. Perhaps this game is similar to 2011 with the whole forklift thing.

[pyroslev]

What color does the tape measure glow? Anyone know?

[fb39ca4]

Originally Posted by evanperryg

I think we may be going in completely the wrong direction. Maybe we will use the tape measures for some kind of extending thing (My team almost did this to make a level 2 climber) and the light might be used for the retroreflective tape that they use on the vision targets. Perhaps this game is similar to 2011 with the whole forklift thing.

Exactly what I was getting at. Maybe the game will make use of tape measures to extend and hook onto objects like the game at the power tools booth at championships.

[NanoCollins]

Did anybody else think that they may just turn off the lights on the field, or block the vision of the drivers making us rely on our vision systems. They wouldn't have to do it for the whole field either, just make us go through a maze tunnel or something that you can't see but have reflective tape on the floor making your robot follow the tape to get through. (just a thought, but it would be cool).