Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00918
To: dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:06:44 -0500
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Overextension
> well, I agree with the neat-ness of the Ecosystem idea, but I think we as
> beamer seriously don't have the reasources to do something like that. Think
> of it, we all build REALLY nice, durable, bots. right? Well I'll bet you
> money that the builders are going to want to KEEP their bot's home with
> them. If we all submit one bot, then we have do for what some equates to
> giving away a child, (SERIOUSLY! People put a great deal of effort into
> these things, and they don't want their creations threatened. Especailly
> since it took MONEY.) Then what would be do? Send them all to me? I'd keep
> them in my Bedroom??? The logistics are enormous. Who would get the beam
> park? Me or you, or him? Who get's priority? On top of that, how are we
> going to study this?
Yes, that's something that I thought of briefly, but then I figured that the
people'd be getting their bots back sooner or later anyway, so that ain't so
bad. Still, you're right about the question of who'd host it. Maybe we could
put it to a vote?
> Now I think each of us building our OWN beam 'hive's' is a good idea.
> Something I'm working on with walkers. And it would be our own satisfaction.
> If someone sat down and COMMITED to something, somthing could be done. For
> example a BIG Robot Expo, (something that perhaps required more than Just
> BEAM robots) like COMDEX would CERITANLY be in order. Robots have nearly as
> huge a technical field as computers and could certianlly draw the same sort
> of crowd as the COMDEX affair. Don't think so? I'm not talking JUST BEAM.
> I'm talking BEAM and everyone else. University's would be there. Companies,
> WEb buisness's BEAMERs, Hobbyists, EVERYONE. Demonstrations, talks, papers
> published, books for sale, If you don't think it would be ludicrously huge,
> then you don't know robotics.
Thank you! I've decided to give it a shot, no matter what anyone thinks,
because I'm really stubborn and I'm trying, anyhow. Even if I can't DO, I'll
have learned something (hopefully) =)
Not as many people could go to that sort of thing as could send a bot in the
mail. Me, for one. I'd never make it anywhere past Kitchener without my dad
saying no.
> Now this is a little off topic, but the point was, that at something like
> this we could all go, (or send our bots entrusted to someone) and they could
> sit in some kind of demonstration for like a week. How brilliant would that
> be? It would should the BEAM scorning robotics world that BEAMERS are
> actually building alot of stuff, and unlike other people's various
> creations, ours could all 'live' together peacefully for a small period of
> time. See? I think the dynamics are possible but though has to go in it. I
> personally would like to see some sort of convention deal. But thats far
> fetched for now.
Ya, well, it ain't that off topic. Sending our bots with someone would be a
good idea, though I'd feel left out *sniff*. Take lots of photos!
If people could agree on things without quite so much discussion, it
wouldn't be that far-fetched. But heck, it's human nature, and we're ALL
guilty of THAT =)
> Dennison
Signing off,
Rob Rix
'If anything can possibly go wrong, it probably already has'-Murphy's law
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