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Post by Connie on Jun 26, 2009 1:03:13 GMT -5
Has anyone else been watching this show? It's quickly become one of my favorites. It's about a group of engineer students who have to put together the contraptions that were shown in cartoons. In particular, the cartoons involving the roadrunner. So far it's been pretty darn entertaining!
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Post by havingfunnow on Jun 26, 2009 7:21:49 GMT -5
I have never heard of it.
Do they blow stuff up like Wiley Coyote?
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Post by Connie on Jun 26, 2009 12:52:41 GMT -5
They DO... I've seen two episodes, the first one they made an elaborate contraption to catch the Roadrunner and it worked. The second one they made rocket powered skates (Like you always saw Wiley wearing)... they failed.
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Post by Organized Chaos on Jun 26, 2009 18:09:31 GMT -5
I saw the one where they built what was basically a Rube Goldberg machine to fire a cannon at the Road Runner.
Pretty neat show.
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Post by havingfunnow on Jun 26, 2009 20:09:56 GMT -5
Rube Goldberg...LOL There is a term I haven't heard in a long time! We used to use it as an insult for programmers, who wrote way too much code. For those of us who learned how to program when I-O was really an important consideration, efficient code was our goal. I remember we were in shock to find out that a major chocolate maker, had daily quotas (lines of code) that their programmers had to meet. The reason we found out about it, was that the consulting company I worked for was hired to go in a clean up the mess that was made as a result of their policy. They ruined some perfectly good programmers they had hired.  |
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Post by eileen on Jul 6, 2009 16:31:09 GMT -5
Sounds like a wacky version of 'How it's made' on the Science Channel. What network is this on?
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Post by Organized Chaos on Jul 6, 2009 18:17:57 GMT -5
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