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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

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Back to the game ‘theme’ for a second, here are a few historical anniversaries for 2010:
400 years ago:
Galileo discovers Jupiter’s 4 largest moons and observes Saturn’s Rings
125 years ago:
the roller coaster is patented by LaMarcus Thompson
100 years ago:
Ray Bradbury is born, 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship, New York’s Penn Station opens as world’s largest
75 years ago:
the spectrometer is patented by Arthur Hardy, Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Pacific, first demonstration of RADAR by Scottsman Robert Watson-Watt
50 years ago:
LASER patented by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes, US launches first weather satellite, Navy bathyscaphe ‘Trieste’ descends to deepest point in the Pacific, Hoover Dam is completed, first Playboy club opens in Chicago
25 years ago:
Coca-Cola changes the secret formula for Coke, then changes it back 3 months later
I'd like to point out that a lot of these involve some kind of transportation or distance, though that may just be you pulling out the right anniversaries or pulling out these ones on purpose
Jupiter and Saturn are kinda sorta really far away (telescope?), roller coasters, airplanes, Penn Station (trains), flight across the pacific (distance/transportation), radar (detecting objects from a distance), satellite launch (more distance), descent (depth-->distance).
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

Now if we take Dave's morse code and add in the fact of the anniversary of the roller coaster, and the fact that FLL was about transportation - we have something to do with tracks/rails!
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

IMHO, the GDC isn't going to do an agregate theme based on a lot of different events that fall into some category("It's a remote sensing themed game because it's the 75th anniversary of radar, the 50th anniversary of the weather satellite, and the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discovery!"). Instead, if there's an event theme at all, it will probably be something that's well known, has an anniversary that's a multiple of five or ten, and has some relevance to FIRST's mission.

...of course, now that I've said that, the game will probably turn out to be "keep a radar dish pointed at Jupiter while on a roller coaster"
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

OK so, if you move your screen to amplify the reflection, you can see holes on the underside of the poles. That suggests that they attach to something, the coupled with the holes on the lexan. However, the orientation, the "what they attach to", and function sadly remain a mystery. However, my best guess so far, is that if you orient this vertically, it seems to be some sort of shelf, however, that doesn't account for the hole in the lexan. Oh well, this will bug me until kickoff.

On a side note, it kinda sorta looks like a person skiing, maybe that has something to do with the name of the game, if it's not actually a part we will see or use.

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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

i've read through some of the pages of replies, and i really like the ideas of tracks/transportation.

when i looked at the picture it looked like you could have two of these mounted across from each other to make a 'limbo bar' or something. my idea is; what if there are multiple bars or overhead tracking that we have to navigate boxes, or some other game piece down from, then score somewhere. think something like one of those annoying sliding puzzles, where you have to move multiple pieces around to get the one you want

either way, i think maneuverability is going to be really important in this year's game.
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Not really the same formula. They wanted to change from sugar to corn syrup so this is how they kept you from tasting the difference. Cain sugar tastes better to me.
I think he was referring to "New Coke", which was more than a simple change to corn syrup.

When have FLL games and FRC games ever been similar? I mean, the Mars FLL game was several years behind the Moon FRC game...
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

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I think he was referring to "New Coke", which was more than a simple change to corn syrup.

When have FLL games and FRC games ever been similar? I mean, the Mars FLL game was several years behind the Moon FRC game...
True, but FIRST has surprised us before....

and what i think our downfall is the fact that we keep saying that we "Like what we see"....

We want to see the water game, so we do... We hope that it turns out with tracks.... (It doesn't start off this way of course but around 30th page of the thread it starts to head off that way)

My $0.02 for now
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Back to the game ‘theme’ for a second, here are a few historical anniversaries for 2010:

75 years ago:
the spectrometer is patented by Arthur Hardy, Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Pacific, first demonstration of RADAR by Scottsman Robert Watson-Watt
50 years ago:
LASER patented by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes, US launches first weather satellite, Navy bathyscaphe ‘Trieste’ descends to deepest point in the Pacific, Hoover Dam is completed, first Playboy club opens in Chicago
Boulder Dam was completed in 1936, it was offically and permanently renamed Hoover dam in 1947. In 2011 it will be 75 years after completion. Anybody who knows anything about the history of design, having seen the embelishmants of this massive structure could tell you it dates to the late 1930's and not the late 50's. The style is quite distinctive.

Hoover Dam is an example of true engineering elegance, being both athesetically pleasing even in the smallest detail and yet very functional, but it is probably not significant enough an engineering acheivement to commemorate with a game a year early.

I think it is safe to scratch Hover Dam off the list.

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We want to see the water game
I, for one, have never seen a water game in the FIRST Game Hints, nor do I want to see one. :|
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

Has anyone checked into any NASA anniversaries of late?

If you do, spend some time checking out their website. It is awesome.
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

OK
for those looking at the morse codes...
anagram of the second sentence. "What is may not be."
results in "Maybe As hint Two."


so what does the first sentence give us??
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

Does anyone who's made a model of these know if they stack in each other? This could be a ladder for robots to step on or something.
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Ray Bradbury is born, 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship, New York’s Penn Station opens as world’s largest
Penn Station was probably the greatest tragedy of Robert Moses' "urban renewal" period of bulldozing everything to make way for new super highways and brutalist skyscrapers in the 1960s.

Original Penn Station:







Modern Penn Station:

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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

I hope that this is a water challenge. The metal pipes can be where the propellers would go and the plastic would go all around the electrical board and stuff
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Re: [BB] 2010 Game Hint #1

You guys, the water game has already been announced.
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