Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #00670



To: dilbertpete@hotmail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:11:31 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Beam Warbotics??


Greetings List,


> Does anyone feel that a beam robot can be heavily modified to become a
> killer robot. You know, take a beam robot, strap a video camera to it,
> make it able to be controlled by radio communications (make the robot
> able to do what it normally does like a photovore seek light, but a
> radio controller can override it), and attach some weapons to it(pipe
> bombs, guns, heat sinking missles, thermonuclear balistic missles.

My thought on this: no. "No what?" Just no. This is the kind of stuff the kids
in my school ask me about and I just shake my head.
This sounds a lot like that thread that was about bots defending themselves.
I, personally, thought the thread was constructive but most of the others were
opposed to it becahat you coulduse of a few messages like this one. What you
do if you want your bot to have some kind of defense is you could build it
with a shell ("mice-a-vore"..) or with sharp spikes to protect against curious
pets.

> Oh Well, if this is possible (FAT CHANCE), then BEAM might have a chance
> at robot wars

Fat chance is right. BEAM bots are not suited for the purpose of tearing
eachother apart. BEAM bots are weakling, low-power little guys. Robot Wars
are basicly RC cars with or without weapons trying to immobilize the other,
even though though the meaning of BEAM is vague, this is definitly NOT BEAM.
Furthermore, even a souped-up BEAM bot would be crushed in seconds at Robot
Wars, even in the featherweight class.

PS: This is in no way meant to offend anyone.

-TurtleTek
"Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
say that you know it. When you do not know a thing, admit you
do not know it. This is knowledge."
- K'ung-fu Tzu (Confucius)

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