You read the same article I did, so I’m also a little fuzzy on the exact details other than attaching fishing lines to tendons and possibly tightening them with guitar tuners. I’m not sure how they launched an attack.
Fucking dangling modifiers. I thought they were saying that they manufactured targets using a pendulum-like device. I kept reading that statement thinking it was such an oddly specific detail to vaguely reference. But using a pendulum to ensure consistent force and accuracy makes sense.
Although, for my money, I’d rather strap a dead hand to a rocket-powered sled.
Anyone who hasn’t followed that link needs to do so now! It’s got human cadaver arms manipulated with fishing line and guitar tuning knobs. It’s got a link to an article titled “Your Face: Punching Bag or Spandrel?”
You can’t possibly find a better way to spend 10 minutes!
Heh. I gave up trying to figure out voting a long time ago. I find it both fascinating and disturbing that there are people out there who see anything I write as worthy of a dowvote. :)
I’ve just assumed, if you’re willing to accept that the human fist evolved for punching, that the chin evolved for taking a punch.
Wait, how did they make the cadaver arms punch and slap?
You read the same article I did, so I’m also a little fuzzy on the exact details other than attaching fishing lines to tendons and possibly tightening them with guitar tuners. I’m not sure how they launched an attack.
I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.
Fucking dangling modifiers. I thought they were saying that they manufactured targets using a pendulum-like device. I kept reading that statement thinking it was such an oddly specific detail to vaguely reference. But using a pendulum to ensure consistent force and accuracy makes sense.
Although, for my money, I’d rather strap a dead hand to a rocket-powered sled.
Yes, it was very badly constructed. I had to read it a couple of times to decode it, and I have the advantage of having graded essays :)
I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.
Anyone who hasn’t followed that link needs to do so now! It’s got human cadaver arms manipulated with fishing line and guitar tuning knobs. It’s got a link to an article titled “Your Face: Punching Bag or Spandrel?”
You can’t possibly find a better way to spend 10 minutes!
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Who downvoted you? I couldn’t have sold the article better myself!
Heh. I gave up trying to figure out voting a long time ago. I find it both fascinating and disturbing that there are people out there who see anything I write as worthy of a dowvote. :)