Glow in the dark tape measure (2014 game hint)

FIRST Rumor Mill
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So one of my team mates accidently walked in on the deans list ceremony while they were going over what the teams will get in their totes and at one point Blaine (the MC for Galileo) and he said “the next item will help you in the 2014 game…a glow in the dark tape measure”
I believe that this is a very important clue. the following is my theory on the meaning of the clue

ok so i have been thinking. in the early 20th century people used the element radium to make things like watches glow in the dark. radium is the element directly preceding the actinides. and a element called americium is in the actinides (named after america, the home country of FIRST ROBOTICS)… americium is used as an ionizer in home fire alarms (why they put radiation warnings on fire alarms). so this obviously has to do with fire.
and this brings me to my next point. “why would you need a glow in the dark tape measure?”. you may have bad vision in the dark… what helps night vision… carrots. and what else is orange? THAT’S RIGHT, FIRE!!! and you know what else is orange? the sun! what is the sun made of? hydrogen. thus i conclude that our robots will need to be powered by (orange?) hydrogen fuel cells. also the waste from hydrogen fulel cells is water… it has to be a water game… and where there’s water there is fire, and where there’s fire there is hot air, and where there’s hot air there is hot air balloons. so the only explanation is there is a secondary challenge where we need a flying mini bot(ftc?). also sandbags are used to weigh down sand bags. so that must mean there is a sand field in the middle of the field.

back to americium… if you add up the values for all the letters in “Orange” (ascii) and subtract that value (604)from 610 (team number for 2013 champions) you get 6. the 6th element in the actinides is plutonium. the half life of plutonium 241 is 14 years. if you take half the half life of plutonium 241 you get 7. americium is the 7th element in the actinides. confirming my fire theory thus confirming the flying ftc bots.

and plutonium is used as the core of a fusion bomb. besides plutonium or uranium a fusion bomb contains deuterium and tritium… isotopes of hydrogen. again confirming my theory of a water game, and being powered by hydrogen. speaking of uranium they also used uranium to color glass in the early 20th century… bringing us all of the way back to radium.

also if you take the atomic numbers for americium, plutonium and uranium. add them, then divide that value by 610 it is 46% multiply 46 by 2… what does that equal that’s right 92 the atomic number of uranium. so we will also be able to use depleted uranium parts on our robots next year

im sure that this is just the beginning of all we will discover with this amazing hint. tell me if you have anything to add on to this

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An FLL theme about tackling the challenge of nuclear waste actually seems possible. It also has nothing to do with the original hint, but still. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Anyone else think the measuring tape game at the power tools booth could be expanded into an FRC game?

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92 minus 30 is 62. If you turn that number upside-down, invert it, break it apart into 5000 segments and rearrange those segments into the first three characters that came to your mind five days ago you will see a slightly deformed and upside-down H2O. Water game for sure.

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This has to be it! There is no other explanation.:slight_smile:

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Can you explain the game?

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I call red herring

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OH MY GOD. MAYBE…JUST MAYBE…We’ll have to measure our parts twice, and then cut them once while machining them! It’s a BREAKTHROUGH!

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Stop. It’s sleeping season. :stuck_out_tongue:

-Nick

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I’m not saying that all of this is actually hinting at next year’s game, because it’s much too early to speculate, but the wristbands from the team social thing glow in the dark.

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Blair Hundertmark was just being Blair and making things interesting. He like everyone else who is not on the GDC, except Dean and maybe Frank, do not know anything about next year’s game. The GDC works in their secret bunker, behind locked doors and keeps their lips sealed.

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I’d actually like to have a glow-in-the-dark tape measure for work. I’ve measured entire buildings in the dark with only a flashlight. Seeing the tape would help.

The only thing – don’t you first have to leave the tape out in the sun for a while so it would glow?

I suspect this is a variant of the tape-measure game. :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, right – game hint. Yeah, 2014 will be here soon enough.

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Dear god… It has begun.

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AMEN! Why am I even on here?!?!?

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just to clarify the tape measures are not actually glow in the dark but instead have a flashlight on them

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What I’m getting from this is that we will have to shoot tape measures into goals in the dark.

Or it’s a water game.

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At the Dewalt/Stanley booth there was a table, about 2’ x 6’ with a hole at each end. There was a player at both ends of the table and had to use a tape measure to pull all of the rings from the far side of the table into the hole on their side. Whoever finished this first won. I think it was to show how strong Stanley tape measures are.

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So, reverse logomotion?

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I just thought I’d point ou that every 16 inches on the tape measures there is a little red box around the number

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PUSHING GAME
16 boxes filled with (you guessed it) water!