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WCDT Strips 3001-3005 (13 to 17 July 2015)
DSL:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 16 Jul 2015, 09:01 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 16 Jul 2015, 08:33 ---or that she walks down stairs, alone or in pairs, and makes a slinkety sound.
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Or simply goes down like a Slinky:
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I believe we're saying the same thing, there.
Timemaster:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 16 Jul 2015, 10:30 ---I don't think Bubbles's chest plate is supposed to be conforming boob. It looks more like sectional articulation, like the Nolan Batsuit.
Still not a good idea, because of impact guidance, but Bubbles probably doesn't have a heart and lungs under there. In fact, I'm thinking a missile emplacement ala Striker Eureka. Changes the meaning of "Nice rack."
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This section of her chassis is probably the most heavily armoured. Because I suppose this is where the most important and vulnerable part is hidden: her CPU.
It doesn´t make sense to put the CPU of a warbot in his head. It is exposed, relatve small, has to be equipped with a lot of sensors and a speaker, plus the device that mimics facial expressions. Not so much place for a heavily armored "brain" left here. The chest provides a lot of space for the CPU and can be protected even better by additional external armour. Together with the energy source of the bot.
Hah, fictional robot technology. I love it. 8-)
TJ
Kugai:
I still want to know where Blossom and Buttercup are
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Timemaster on 16 Jul 2015, 12:45 ---This section of her chassis is probably the most heavily armoured. Because I suppose this is where the most important and vulnerable part is hidden: her CPU.
It doesn´t make sense to put the CPU of a warbot in his head. It is exposed, relatve small, has to be equipped with a lot of sensors and a speaker, plus the device that mimics facial expressions. Not so much place for a heavily armored "brain" left here. The chest provides a lot of space for the CPU and can be protected even better by additional external armour. Together with the energy source of the bot.
Hah, fictional robot technology. I love it. 8-)
TJ
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As previously pointed out, the seam and contouring on Bubbles's chest actually makes that section of her body MORE vulnerable. While arguments can be made for placing the most critical systems there, there's no actual reason they have to be.
Assuming that seam is just a point of articulation, given the stated resistance of her armor plate, anything that penetrates that seam is going to stay inside. It won't be able to get out. To borrow a phrase, it will "rattle around in there like Pac-Man until [she's] dead."
Whether the head is a better or worse location depends on how it is built. There's nothing that said human level AI requires a human sized brain. There may be no need for a kilo of matter in 1.3 liters of space. It might be much much smaller. That means much more of the skull could be devoted to armor. Since the skull is largely not articulated, it can be a much sturdier set of thicker armor.
There might be advantages, as well, in keeping the signal distance between the "brain" and primary sensor groups short. This might be off set by the added distance between the brain and primary motor groups, but that could be addressed the same way as humans do it- have a lot of basic motor function directed by the spine.
While there are arguments to doing it either way, there's nt absolute best way to build a QC warbot, until Jeph says there is.
Until that point, I'm going to continue to imagine that Bubbles's chest is full of missiles and she's all Itano Circus up on any challenger.
War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 16 Jul 2015, 13:03 ---I still want to know where Blossom and Buttercup are
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Now I'm sad cause she isn't blue.
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