It is impossible... ...until there is no other way...

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Oh man, your win in that match was amazing. I have been wondering for quite a while now why your robot went up in smoke. I was also surprised to see that the E-Stop button didn't work (I have this memory of your driver jamming it and yelling at the refs...)

Thanks! I was actually the one who hit the E-Stop (Nick, the driver may have hit it after me - I'm sure it was hit more than once), it's the first time I've ever had the pleasure of doing so since I first got involved back in 2005. In retrospect, hitting the E-Stop was a bit pointless, because the only way to get the smoke to stop was to turn the robot's power off - but at the time it seemed like the correct action.

I'm still waiting for Pictures of the smoke cloud to surface...

[kirtar]

*looks at title*
I cite Clarke's Three Laws of Prediction (couldn't resist)

1. # When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. # Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.