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Re: DARPA patent application

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What a great idea for 2007 FRC ! Call the new game "Just Shoot Me!" (or something similar -- I guess that name is taken by the TV sitcom.)
Are we back on the 2006 hint again?? That was the "spade's show" from the clue from this past year's game.

David Spade was an actor on "Just Shoot Me". Have we forgotten the clues meaning already??
Yeah, I was thinking about "a shovel's show" from the 2006 game hint, too. Just wanted to see if anyone picked up on the ballistic GDC possibilities raised by Dean's recently published patent application. A more recent game design thread included a suggestion that the GDC should test game concepts thoroughly before kick-off. Since a certain GDC member is likely to know much more about the subject invention that we do here in CD land, I thought incorporating the human launcher (aka Benge Bungee) into the 2007 game would allow the committee to leverage existing test data.

Just trying to be helpful ...
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Re: DARPA patent application

Human player/safety helmet

good, good.

(not meaning to be sexist, DJ could incorporate Rocket Man by Elton John into the mix - oh, and the game could be called: To Infinity and Beyond)
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Re: DARPA patent application

If this is really intended to launch a law enforcement officer onto the roof of a 5 story building, then what happens if the 'perp' steps in his way, and give the officer a slight push backwards as he is about to land?

or pops up at the edge of the roof with a sheet of plywood?

I can think of other uses for it though, like delivering groceries to a 5th floor window

or it would be great for shooting bundles of roofing shingles onto the roof of your house (instead of carrying each 50 pound bundle up a ladder)

Ill bet UPS and FEDEX would buy one for each delivery truck - just pick an open window and yell "INCOMING!"

could also greatly speed up olympic events, like the high dive - instead of having to climb the ladder for the 10 meter high dive, the athletes could be launched up in two seconds

I can even see new sporting events - with one of these, and lets say... about ten trampolenes, spaced out about 50 feet apart....

BTW, since the forces involved would be identical, shouldnt it be possble for someone to jump off a 5 story building onto the raised chair, and have the system catch him? Shouldnt it work in both directions?

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Re: DARPA patent application

I guess my problem with this being used in tactical situation is similar to what Ken said.

Whats a better target that a SWAT guy trying to prepare himself on this giant pnuematic launcher sitting not more than ten or twenty feet from the building?

What ever happened to helos? Seems like one would do a better job. A large trailer/pnuematic launcher is as good an RPG magnet as a Littlebird.

But it is really, really far outside the box!
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Re: DARPA patent application

Just a few quick comments:

Yes, this thing is real.

Yes, it really works.

Yes, it has been demonstrated to the very-top-level brass at DARPA.

Yes, DARPA got REALLY excited.

Yes, it launches a person safely without causing compression injuries.

Yes, DARPA has a very specific application in mind for it.

Yes, the "is the 'projectile' a sitting duck during set-up time" issue has been considered, and solved.

Yes, some of the members of the 2006 GDC got to see the videos of the thing in action. Unfortunately, it was too late to incorporate any of the resulting ideas into the 2006 game.

Yes, I have already determined that the device is capable of launching 2,160 Krispy Kreme donuts into the back seat of my Mustang with a vertical displacement of 65 feet, without cracking the sugary glaze on a single donut.

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Re: DARPA patent application

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Yes, the "is the 'projectile' a sitting duck during set-up time" issue has been considered, and solved.

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Well of course! Just use adaptive electronic camouflage on it! Doh!
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Yes, I have already determined that the device is capable of launching 2,160 Krispy Kreme donuts into the back seat of my Mustang with a vertical displacement of 65 feet, without cracking the sugary glaze on a single donut.

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Re: DARPA patent application

Okay, scrawled on a napkin at dinner, I figured that for a fifty foot launch, neglecting extra oomph to counter air resistance, a "launchee" would encounter ~ 4 g's. Really, not as bad as I expected, but the onset of the force is in ~ 1/3 of a second. I think the major obstacle in the design, which I'm sure has been taken care of by now, is to secure the launchee to the launcher, to get him going, and dissipate force, and then to release him. Dave, do you know how they did that?
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Just a few quick comments:

Yes, this thing is real.
Yes, it really works.

Yes, I know where the device lives

Yes, I have helped on this project (lifting mostly)

Yes, I have seen it work

Yes, I volunteered to get shot.

Yes, It is awesome.
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Yes, It is awesome.
Does that mean you were shot? Or, do they have a rule against shooting crazy people, figured anyone who would volunteer to be shot must be crazy, realized someone already wrote that book and went home?
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no...i really want to but the deka crash dummy is the only one going right now.
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So how does the deka crash dummy land?
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With a nice thud I'm sure, since it lacks the capability of grace and the ability to gain style points as humans do.

Well.. some humans. Others are not so graceful.

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OK, so now I guess we know that it's a real idea for people...

But... the first think I thought of was - this would be an AWESOME way to deliver a PackBot or Talon robot in a SWAT situation.

PackBot: http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=109
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If I designed this system it would definately have a crank on the side

that you have to turn 10 times to release the trigger

and it would go "Do Dut - Do Dut - Do doody do Dut! (all around the mullberry bush....)"

hey, theres the perfect name for this system "Cop in a Box!"

the box would be bullet proof, the guy turning the crank would be on the side away from the building

it could be painted with flowers and rainbows and stuff

and the perp in the building would be looking out the window going "WTH is THAT?!"

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