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amen!
Posted by Mike Sklar at 04/11/2001 2:35 PM EST
Engineer on team #21, ComBBAT , from Astronaut H.S. and Titusville H.S. and Brevard Community College and Boeing Company and NASA-KSC.
In Reply to: Battlebots is NOT violence
Posted by James Jones on 04/11/2001 1:53 PM EST:
Amen!
I agree violence in society (the so called bad behaviour FIRST is trying to improve or get away from)
refers to violence between human beings not machines.
Too often we personalize or humanize machines especially robots. They are nothing more than cars, cranes or backhoes. Are demolition derby's violent?
Of course not. Is auto racing violent (Perhaps but only becuase human drivers get hurt).
Intensity is the word/characteristic we should be striving for. That is what makes football, basketball, tennis, golf, racing, and yes wrestling to a lesser degree so popular in America.
FIRST should realize this and become as entertaining and intense as any other sport in America. The value/cash produced from this can then be used to meet the real objective of creating a technically aware, technically capable, intense society. If it does not than someone else will.
Does everyone know that Battlebots is creating an educational partnership and youth event! They have the profits and money to do this and know they can capture the attention of kids and change their lives also.
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