Robotic Self Healing Chair
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mekender
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Robotic Self Healing Chair
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
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George guy
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Re: Robotic Self Healing Chair
I, for one, welcome our new robot chair overlords.
'Regulate' used to mean the opposite of 'constipate.'
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esa5444
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Re: Robotic Self Healing Chair
It looks like it's not so much self-healing, but self assembling. I bet you if you give any part of it a good whack with a sledgehammer, it won't be able to fix itself.
This reminds me of the famous Space Pen story. In case no one knows, the legend is that in the 60s, NASA spent millions of dollars to make a pen that would write in zero-gravity, under any orientation, would not be contaminated by exposure to water, wouldn't leak, etc. The result was the Fisher Space Pen. The Russian space program just used pencils. With this chair, it seems someone spent millions of dollars to develop something that could be solved another way. For example, make the chair out of heavy sections of steel. It will probably weigh close to what this robot chair does, and while it won't fix itself, if you manage to break it, you really really need to loose some weight.
This reminds me of the famous Space Pen story. In case no one knows, the legend is that in the 60s, NASA spent millions of dollars to make a pen that would write in zero-gravity, under any orientation, would not be contaminated by exposure to water, wouldn't leak, etc. The result was the Fisher Space Pen. The Russian space program just used pencils. With this chair, it seems someone spent millions of dollars to develop something that could be solved another way. For example, make the chair out of heavy sections of steel. It will probably weigh close to what this robot chair does, and while it won't fix itself, if you manage to break it, you really really need to loose some weight.