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He is balsaman
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Yes, I get that...
But what makes Balsa man so great?
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He gave so detailed and complete responses and he understood the whole process of build a balsa structure.
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Wow. Never forget Balsa Man. :cry:
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TheChiScientist wrote:Who is Len Joeris? He was before I joined so I am a little clueless. :?
Also if you can I would ask. If it's written in pen it should be fine...
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TheChiScientist wrote:Yes, I get that...
But what makes Balsa man so great?
I also joined kinda late but I read a bunch of his posts and they were like super detailed with a TON of info. All of his posts were really long with a lot of building advice and replied to pretty much every question asked with a huge paragraph with explanations and stuff.
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Was the testing device for towers tilted? I heard that many teams go significantly less than they expected and broke in the same place. Gelinas also got less than we were expecting. Is this a coincidence?
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wzhang5460 wrote:Was the testing device for towers tilted? I heard that many teams go significantly less than they expected and broke in the same place. Gelinas also got less than we were expecting. Is this a coincidence?
My tower did terrible too. It scored 500 less than expected. I wouldn't be surprised if it was tilted.
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Ours seemed to break a little earlier than expected. One side of bucket filled faster/higher.
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Does uneven loading matter? As far as I know, because it is ultimately hanging from a chain with a pivot point at the connection to the bucket, this shouldn’t matter. I could be wrong though, feel free to correct me
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