Saturday, October 17, 2020

Dry Ice Loophole Makes Mockery of Robotics Competition


There's no solution more compelling than those lazy "it's not stupid if it works" moments, even if they're technically against the rules. A low budget or DIY solution might make a judge mad, but you can't say that your solution wasn't effective. For another story of a stroke of lazy genius, here's a guy who needed a permit to build a garage so he just bought a van.

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Text - What is the funniest loophole you have ever seen? Kevin Yue, studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology When I was in school, they held a robotics competition. It was pretty simple, conceptually. You had to make a firefighting robot. It would have to navigate a maze, find a candle and put it out (fully automated, no remote control). I can't remember the exact size but I think the robot had to be smaller than 1 foot in length, width, and height. Scoring was as follows. You start with

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Text - • Could separate into parts to search rooms in parallel • Operated on very little code (there were a few benchmarks for this) I entered a block of dry ice: It basically just had a spring-powered hammer to shatter it into little pieces when the start timer went (so that it would evaporate faster)

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Text - In seconds the entire maze was filled with a white fog and the candle was definitely out. I had the fastest time by a landslide even before you counted my deductions: • Didn't use a fan? Check • Search every room? Check. • Separate into parts to put out fires in parallel? Check I think I could've been the only person in history to ever win a robotics competition without writing a single line of code or soldering a single wire. But alas, the judges disqualified me by unanimous vote. WHY AR

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Random, Hilarious, And Outright Discouraging Fails


We can all become so caught up in our daily lives and just trying to muddle through existence without making a mess of everything, that we forget that there are other people out there failing hard. Like so hard that all the rest of us can do is scratch our heads, and wonder how they've made it this far. Sometimes our brains take a recess, and dumb stuff happens. 

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Text - Grundy County Sheriff's Office 2 hrs • O Just a word of advice- If You Are Going to Make a Fake ID- leave your girlfriend out of the photo... #SeriouslyDude.. #WorstFakelDEver MISSISSIPPI CENTICATION EXRATION 7-12-2009 DA TH DATE SEX 205-3504 1977 180M CLASS ESTR ENOORSEMENTS 5-09 C JOSE PACHECO 3535 HWY 80 E PEARL MS 37208

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Hemp oil - I'm not particularly proud of this but I feel like I need to tell everyone.. you see that tiny pickle in the upper left hand side? I spent a good; 30 seconds trying to fish that dude out before I realized, that pickle is actually my pinky underneath the jar.

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Dish - |Ingredients 1/2 cup rice 1/2 cup water 1I milk 1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence RATING: REVIEWER: I was wanting to use up some full cream milk, bought by mistake instead of light milk. and came across this recipe. Have just cooked it and the rice is so beautiful and creamyI only added 1/3 cup of sugar as my husband doesn't like things too sweet. and it's perfect for us. Thank you very much DATE: 01-06-2015 19:1350

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Text - Halloween 2019 My Superman & his Supergirl! Ter-Lee Comedy @terryleeborror You didn't think this couples costume completely through, because Supergirl is Superman's cousin.

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Gadget - 8AS AIREAG ertow Contact

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Pink - 2,5m B/iro-USB cahl Smartphone Tablet Tamera Computer USB micro-USB ia de datos

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Gadget - Pretty sure my mom thinks she's charging it

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Text - IF YOUR S OCIAL SECURITY NUMBER WAS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU HAD... HOW RICH WOULD YOU BE??? fonzworthcutlass $34,523,2674 gochellzgo 93,780,9632 boystop 585,214,172 sualified Hold up....

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Drink - BREWED ICED TEA RESH BREWED ICED Unsweat Sweat EET infused with VITAMINS CB3: 85 Bo:81 dnfoted with NC:B3 : BS: B6: B12

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Food - When u wanna eat this but u Kant kuz u Lack toast and tall or rent

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Food - Butcher Shop Hand Crafted Sausage Pork Gummy Bear 499 Hand Crafted Lb.

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Fashion accessory

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Text - Proud Mommy moment! She used the correct use of "their" and she's only in 2nd grade!! I know 30 yr olds that can't do that! Haha çan. I do what their doing

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Font - Patrick T Shep Follow @PatrickTShep Exchange I'm currently having with my landlord. The hot water is broken 20:16 How? Can you send me some photos? 20:17 MMS It looks like this but it's not hot. 20:18

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Vehicle - 324 YES

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Text - (i) Are you still selling the 30 inch TV No, sorry. I sold it a few days ago How about $200 I already sold it. Sorry $250 I literally do not have it Then don't waste my time

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Food - + Add Friend 18 hrs Just made chicken mediurm rare chicken strips. They're so good can't believe ive neever tried it like this before. Can't wait to dig into this with my homemade salad and veges. #healthy #newyearsresolution #clean #cleaneating

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Tumblr Thread: Kudzu Is A Scary Monster Plant


Ah yes, leave it to the brilliant minds of Tumblr to take us down a rabbit hole about how plants can genuinely wage war against the rest of the world. In this case, we're talking about the kudzu. The kudzu plants would fit right into a horror novel. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this thread about the still-on submarines. 

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Text - inconsequential S linesofreturninggeese Follow just-shower-thoughts Follow Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. "I killed your friend, here hold him." mojave-wasteland-official "Friend" Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory. theun--sj Follow Plants don't wage war

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Text - mojave-wasteland-official Ever heard of blackberries? Yes, plants do wage war kasaron Follow Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. systlin Follow I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago. It's currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

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Text - Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries. And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint. moirakatson Follow This post did not go where I expected it to. S deathbeforednf Follow Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursin

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Text - 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later. Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there. norseminuteman Follow Yall mother don't even talk unless you've had to

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Text - Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. E breadgunner Can second the comments of Kudzu. I forget where I read it but there's this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that's in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant's seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a scorched earth policy. It's even more badass than plants that use toxin

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Nature - See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu. e zachsanomaiy Follow Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare They smother every other living plant to death

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Natural landscape - Those trees under there are dead, they can't get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It's creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist's wet dream tbh.

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Vegetation - The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

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Vegetation - What used to be a house

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Vegetation - WINEY Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale It's an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to

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Text - spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine.. for now. e zachsanomaiy Follow Kudzu is on time magazine's top 10 invasive species to look out for.

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Goat - This little buddy doing his part UNCOTV zachsanomaiy Follow Not to keep spamming this post but

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Leaf - Iadestatian of Kutru in dhe linited States "the growth of kudzu as it became a "structural parasite" of the South, [7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as "the vine that ate the South".[13]" "It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., "easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually". [21" yall it's been estimated this plant consumes

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Text - 600 kilometers of the united states every year it's been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away nixieseal Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots.. Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it. Eat it before it eats

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Text - 3-ducks-in-a-trenchcoat Follow In this world it's eat or be eaten gamebird Follow Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu. Posts that make you go 'hm? Source: just-shower-thoughts 221,327 notes

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Bill Nye Pokes Fun At Neil deGrasse Tyson's Reply


Fair to say that Neil deGrasse Tyson wasn't ready for Bill Nye to come in there and tease his lengthy rant about how consciousness doesn't exist. 

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