Potential Republican Crack-Up

[sionnsar]

Congratulations on 3000!

[Monkey Face]

Kewl! I hope I will be able to stay for all three meetings next week, but it will depend on how my week goes...for at least three of the days, I will have busy mornings out of the house. And that always wears me out. (Gads! I used to go from 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM or later and always get up refreshed and rested.) :o[

[Monkey Face]

WHOA!!!! I DID IT! WOO HOO!!!! YAY ME!

*doing a little dance, here*

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yay 'Face!

[sionnsar]

Yikes. Forgot it was my radio listening time. 3 hours of Celtic music, followed by an hour of medieval, then a varied program called "The Old Country." Get my week's fix of music in one sitting. (But "The Grateful Dead Hour" following drives us away.)

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

[Monkey Face]

Thanks!

I've missed a lot of 00's and all the 000's so far, so this one feels pretty good! ;o]

[sionnsar]

Trying out a new tagline...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I got one 000...mostly a case of me being in the right place at the right time when me and one other person were posting...it feels good!

[Monkey Face]

LOL!

Good one!
I'll have to replace mine, soon. I'm getting tired of it. Go figger.

[Monkey Face]

Yah...I like it too, and for a while, on the UT II, I was getting them quite often. Then I couldn't get any, and I think it must have been because of the lag time. Of course, when we moved to the UT III, it was a lot easier.

But I don't even think about it now...much.

[sionnsar]

Comes from another mossback on the WA State board, with permission.

Gotta go away for a few minutes...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Three hours of celtic followed by medieval would absolutely be worth listening to!

[NicknamedBob]

One of the unusual design aspects of the spider robots is the "panic response." They are designed to curl into a "foetal ball" when sensing an imminent tumble, pulling their legs and arms close in to protect the central electronics and energy storage systems, as well as minimizing damage to the spindly legs.

Bouncing down to the bottom af a steep slope in lunar gravity should not prove excessively damaging, and most would be able to right themselves and climb out again.

Most damage to their arms and legs should be repairable by simply replacing the damaged unit. These actuators are after all, interchangeable. Mechanically, the robots should enjoy a long service life. My primary concern is the battery system. There is no way to predict its longevity under these conditions.

[A CA Guy]

I hope you saved the hair as a nest for your fish...

[Monkey Face]

"...their legs and arms..."

Shouldn't that be "legs and legs?"

*ducking and running*

[Monkey Face]

He's at it again...http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1463262%2C122

[sionnsar]

Three hours of celtic followed by medieval would absolutely be worth listening to!

Oh, it is!!!!! And "The Old Country" is like "cultural folk" (a made-up term that includes Celtic), usually very good listening.

[sionnsar]

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[NicknamedBob]

The legs and legs, attach at the "equator" of the robot, with the first section having a reverse curve that matches the more or less curved surface of the central section.

When the robot reaches upward, as we would lift our elbow over our head, it can almost touch its elbows together at the top.

The next section, corresponding to our lower arm or leg, is twice the length of the first. This normally curved section can tuck in toward the robot very neatly, and the robot can assume an almost spherical shape, with its "arms" protecting its body.

When fully extended, these legs and arms have a great deal of "reach," being one and a half times the hemi-circumference.

The discussion about the possibility of a fall or tumble has prompted me to incorporate another safety feature. You may recall the Mars Rover "air-bag" landing technique. We will have Carbon-Dioxide operated "air-bags" mounted on the surface of the robot, to be actuated by its "panic response."

Our Gas-Cooled Reactors use Carbon Dioxide preferentially as a coolant and propellant gas, and we will even use the CO₂ tank in the robot as an emergency power source if its battery should fail utterly, and no other means of extracting it is available. This could necessitate waiting until the moon is in its proper phase to supply solar heat for the expanding CO₂ to provide force for the robot's "muscles."