@chigrl The more we hear these dire prognostications, the longer the inevitable is delayed it seems. I need confident upper 'K' consumers throughout October for my business, so carry on with the doom stories even though I'm in your camp.
It breaks a board 2.5 meters up. And it has no idea that's high, for it, that's just another coordinate.
A human breaking a board at that height burns seconds on setup, the jump, the wind-up, the fear of missing and falling. A robot just calculates the strike trajectory from its current position to the target and executes it with the same confidence it would use to break a board at floor level. Height isn't a risk factor for it, it's just another number in the balance equation.
Breaking a board was never really about the power of the hit, even though that's what it looks like. It's about precisely timing the hand's speed at the point of contact and absorbing the recoil without losing balance in a body that's standing on a single point of support during the strike, not two.
People film this as a display of power. What it actually shows is that fear of heights, fear of falling, fear of messing up, are just three variables that were never programmed in, because there's nothing there capable of being afraid in the first place.
Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.
In continuing my day with gripes against big business today, next up is https://t.co/xfjhUrkO4l. Their next day promise is not worth much. And it's also impossible to easily contact them to give them your 2 cents worth. I ended up having to call them to get some satisfaction by wasting their employee's time. What a world we live in.
Bell Canada has to be the most self destructive company I have ever encountered in my lifetime, and that is a long time. I wouldn't know where to begin in describing their incompetence. If it wasn't for the infrastructure accumulated during the monopoly years, there would be absolutely no reason for them to exist. May they rest in peace. #bellcanada