Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

Well, it's also saying a lot if my current location's two primary benefits are low traffic, cheap lots and increased survivability in case of nuclear war or catastrophic global pandemic.

To fully make use of it I need to buy lots of forest and go full survivalist in there. Have underground farming, stables and geothermal power. So, after fallout my people will ride out from our vault! So if I at any point appear to be absent it's because I'm deep underground building a tripod.

 

so, this is undoubtedly an experiment to see how many swordfights is required before one or both swords breaks *nod*

 

I'm leaving this here. You can move it to a political thread if it starts a debate. Probably won't. I like it.

http://gizmodo.com/obamas-plan-to-save-the-internet-1656774403/ jschreier

Obama's asking the FCC to reclassify the internet as a public utility. Of course, the FCC is its own entity and he has no direct control over I think it might be a good idea. This means that internet providers won't be able to do sneaky sneak (or at least limit their capacity to) things like throttling, blocking, paid prioritization, etc. I read it, I liked it. I'm not going to talk about it more than I have to. I've had a fuck-you day. I'm going to sleep. Gnight.

 

that's obviously early experimentation by japan to get mobile suits working. to work out specifically how the arms will work.

 

Due to the increased mass and higher torque etc. the sword fighting would not be the same as with humans. Direct stabs etc. would be much more preferable and successful blocks would not as easily throw an opponent off balance or even seriously throw the sword in the other direction.

With these robot arms we can see how they almost completely lack the capacity to make an actual swing, instead they just emulate a swing by rotating certain joints but it's not an actual swing as it can be stopped in an instant - if a human makes a full swing with maximum strength then he cannot stop it in an instant, he has to plan ahead to stop it before hitting.

I suppose those arms are built for precision construction and not fencing. Actual fencing arms would be pretty cool and have things like full 360 rotating joints. Also it could make sense to go straight for tentacles since the tentacle itself can be built so that it can be protruded and extended at great speed and strength, making for a mechanically strong and high performance system for puncturing targets.

/Nitpicking /Partypooping

 

He got a fox to sit on his face. I'd say he had fun.

 

Mechanical tentacles are excellent limbs and can easily outperform ones based on human skeletal structure. Also, it is surprisingly easy to manufacture a tentacle design based on nested cones. Cones have great feature in that they are highly tolerant of deviation while still capable of being stacked / nested. That means that lesser degree of precision is required for manufacture and at same the design has higher tolerance for damage. If designed right, they can also have any section removed if need be and the device merely loses a little length, another great feature that adds to sustained operation in challenging environments.

Tentacles, man.