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Re: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!!
Posted by Eric Rasmussen.
Engineer from FIRST.
Posted on 8/26/2000 9:22 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 8/21/2000 8:04 AM MST:
: 2. How much can you do with a boat before it sinks. Im sorry, maybe its just lack of faith and engineering experience, but I just don't feel that we could put too much on a floating robot without it sinking (thinking on a larger scale here because im sure FIRST wants the crowd to be able to see whats goin on)
You need to start thinking 'outside the box'. Sure, a boat could get swamped and sink, but what about an inflatable raft? Open-topped canoes are regularly used on whitewater rivers by adding large, inflated 'bags' (don't know the technical term) at the front and back, thus preventing the majority of the volume inside of the canoe from being flooded if water splashes in. Just imagine how much buoyancy you could get from submerging a single 14' diameter inflated ball.
-Eric
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