pic: 931's 2007 design

[GaryVoshol]

We have a ship too:



Interesting that it was named "Saginaw" - after a city only 90 miles from home. http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/161188.htm

[Travis Hoffman]

1114 was a pleasure boat taken over by the Navy to patrol the Texas coastline during World War I - ooooh lots of danger involved there. Soak in the sunshine and drink mint juleps all day. Sounds like something those Simbot mentors would do!

[Tetraman]

Wow, this is sweet!

While looking for 174 on a boat, I found 174 in graffiti on a wall and I thought, "Alright! Thats my team getting the word out." But I found a boat.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I couldn't find one. Does this mean I'll fail at life in 2007? Depressing.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

I couldn't find one. Does this mean I'll fail at life in 2007? Depressing.

Well, I looked but also couldn't find a Navy vessel sporting 461.

A by-product of the search was three pages of integral calculus, seemingly unrelated to 461 except by the course number. The derivation shows why the transcendental number pi appears in the formula for the normal (Gaussian) probability density function commonly called the bell curve. So I guess 461 rings a bell ...

[artdutra04]

The SS-228 was an American submarine during World War II.

The USS Drum (SS-228):



And then there are the railroad locomotives:





And then there are license plates:

[rourke]

Niagara FIRST Teams are ready to go for 2007..... Would you expect anything less??? (Note they aren't identical triplets, but have the same pedigree)

[sirbleedsalot]

I type in 939 in google's image search and all I get is the CPU socket. Oh well mayby I need more google practice.

[RoboMadi]

Wohooooooooooooo!
i was able to locate one

[mtaman02]

Its one thing to joke about next years robot design, Its another to put up vessels, trains or other objects bearing your schools number and on top of it all you know the history behind not just a team number on the side of a ship or robot design.

Basically this is all fun and games for the sake of starting cool rumors but on the other hand what you are really doing is educating one another about history that just so happened to bear your team numbers - later on rep points shall be given and just so i don't forget to hand them out I will subscribe to this thread =)

Keep up the good work.

[Koko Ed]

The only 191 I could find was flight 191 out of O'Hare in '79. A painful memory in aviation history.

[Elgin Clock]

Oh man.. first a submarine, and then I finally find a ship!!!



"USS McFarland (DD-237/AVD-14) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for John McFarland."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_McFarland_(DD-237)


Creepy connection to CT as well.

John McFarland (1840 – ?) was a sailor in the United States Navy and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. McFarland entered the Navy at Boston, Massachusetts, 24 December 1861 as seaman on Ohio, later transferring to Hartford in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Hartford:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hartford_%281858%29
Her Anchor now sits at the University of Hartford.
sweet.. Road trip time!

[KTorak]

Bam..Bedford Express

[Tetraman]

The name of the 2007 game will be Boats, Trains, and Robo-mobiles.

[BoyWithCape195]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

The name of the 2007 game will be Boats, Trains, and Robo-mobiles.

...and planes