Good to know: no time travel.

[Alan8or]

It's too bad we didn't get one this year, as this is my last as a student, and I'd love to be able to program one of those bad boys!

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Zyik

Maybe one of these days we'll get a flux capacitor in the KOP. I'm going to bet that would have some very strict rules on it.

Even still, a flux capacitor needs 1.21 gigawatts of electricity (I looked it up) to operate; Our KOP would need to need to provide some sort of Power of Kits.

[4throck]

Originally Posted by IbleedPink233

If you're worried about it passing inspection, why don't you just travel to the future and see if the inspectors will clear it?
Hmm, actually, if you're already in the future, you may as well see who wins nationals and see if it is worth it to keep working (yeah, right - like anyone's going to pass up building a robot). Then again, if you are skilled enough to build a time machine, then beating Overdrive should be a piece of cake.
One piece of advice - make sure that if you go to the past, be sure to have a backup in case you go to a time before Exide batteries were invented (otherwise you'll have to go through the business of stealing a train and all that business).

It would be awesome if you went to the future and found out you were going to win. Then you could just sit back and relax for the rest of build season, since you will win anyway.

Sure, causality will collapse and space-time would probably rip apart, but who really cares?

Also, concerning the plutonium, remember that it should be available at every corner store. Also suicide booths should be legal. And where's our space base?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Richard

If you use a flux capacitor make certain it is a COTS component, or that you fabricate it from COTS materials.

I would... but it's not available for pick-up till after The Championship Event this year... This is very annoying. I'm looking into getting it expedited though.

<crosses fingers>

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

You could always just go to Pit Admin and ask if any other teams have one. I still laugh whenever I'm reminded of the team that did that in Houston in 2003.

That would be team 11

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by IbleedPink233

If you're worried about it passing inspection, why don't you just travel to the future and see if the inspectors will clear it?
Hmm, actually, if you're already in the future, you may as well see who wins nationals and see if it is worth it to keep working (yeah, right - like anyone's going to pass up building a robot). Then again, if you are skilled enough to build a time machine, then beating Overdrive should be a piece of cake.
One piece of advice - make sure that if you go to the past, be sure to have a backup in case you go to a time before Exide batteries were invented (otherwise you'll have to go through the business of stealing a train and all that business).

Bah. Go to the future, find out next year's game, and astound everyone as you decode the clues.

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Just one question:
How does one get back on track with the thread topic?
or
Are we already?

Edit: well, 2 questions...maybe...

I think the point of this thread is that you can't get back ...

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

You could always just go to Pit Admin and ask if any other teams have one. I still laugh whenever I'm reminded of the team that did that in Houston in 2003.

Hey, be nice to those Pit Admins. I know one of them quite well this year. There's a reason why they put non-tech people there - the techs are all busy doing techie things, like inspections and making the field work.

Beside, from what I remember of Houston (from the FLL corner) any pit announcements were more like annoying noise than information. Most people probably didn't hear the joke.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Zyik

Hmm lets see...

Does anyone remember a team coming out of the future and running into the rack? ...

I suspect that 832 did it, but the Head Ref was never able to confirm that. Anyway, they didn't get penalized.

[Molten]

Why not go to the past with this year's game video and show it to yourself. That way you would already have your robot done before the game began. But isn't there some sort of rule against that? Oh well, who cares about rules?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by IndySam

Restrictions on contact between the Robot and The Rack are much more severe, as they would have to involve reverse time travel.

Come someone tell me what The Rack is btw?? Wasn't that last year?? Did they actually mean Track, or is this really a time travel back to 2007's game kind of clue???


Anywho... I believe Rule <T01> disqualifies a team who uses the the space/time continuum to extend build season more than 6 weeks anyways.
I'm sure maybe a team update will come out (some time in the future...*) to include time during the game to be covered under this rule as well.








*Not that I have actually USED the space/time continuum and have any insider knowledge of said team update... but.. ya know... just sayin' there may or may not be one.

[Tom Bishop]

Originally Posted by Richard

I suspect that 832 did it, but the Head Ref was never able to confirm that. Anyway, they didn't get penalized.

It's all rumor and innuendo. As coach of 832 I neither confirm or deny the existence of time travel. It is a secret weapon after all!

[CodyJ543]

Please direct your attention to my signature, I think it raises a very valid question on this topic.

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2054 Big Blue Crew!

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by CodyJ543

Please direct your attention to my signature, I think it raises a very valid question on this topic.

Other than to go back (less than a year) and buy a lottery ticket, why would you want to go back in time to 2008?
What purely awesome thing has happened so far this year that you would pick 2008 as your year to go back to compared to every other year something cool (or bad that you would want to try and prevent ala' the movie Timecop, or the TV series Quantum Leap) has happened?

Unless you're a New England Patriots fan (lame), I don't personally see anything worth visiting so far in '08.

And if you invented Time Travel, would you even be the type of person to even care about something like Football?

Seriously.. I'd rather go forward in time.

[Tom Bishop]

If Mankind was ever going to discover time travel...wouldn't we be seeing people from the future today?

How do you know you're not? You can't expect time travelers to advertise themselves. It's against Union rules!

[BigJ]

If someone invented time travel...

and went back in time to accomplish something, and did it...

Then, in the present, they wouldn't have a reason to invent time travel...

And thus, wouldn't invent time travel...

And thus, the task the person accomplished wasn't completed...

so they invented invent time travel...

and went back in time to accomplish something, and did it...

Then, in the present, they wouldn't have a reason to invent time travel...

And thus, wouldn't invent time travel...

And thus, the task the person accomplished wasn't completed...

so they invented invent time travel...

and went back in time to accomplish something, and did it...

Then, in the present, they wouldn't have a reason to invent time travel...

And thus, wouldn't invent time travel...

And thus, the task the person accomplished wasn't completed...

so they invented invent time travel...

[Woody1458]

Originally Posted by EricH

What's the acceleration needed to get to 88mph in 50 feet? And the plutonium is easy to get around, all you need is a lightning bolt every match so you can get that 1.21 jigawatts of energy (though you still need to get it from an approved supplier).

Getting 1.21 jigawatts of energy would be considerably difficult considering Watts is a measurement of power