h a l f b a k e r yNot so much a thought experiment as a single neuron misfire.
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A large screen presents a view of another tug-of-war team somewhere in the world. Below this a powerful electric motor, firmly anchored to the ground, exerts precisely the same amount of pull on the rope as this other team, thus enabling world-wide tug-of-war competition, without all that tedious getting
together in muddy fields.
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This would allow "handicaps" to be introduced, so that a team of puny primary school children could take on the brutes of an American Football squad. |
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Taking it further, a team of ants, suitably harnessed and in pursuit of enemy termites as an incentive, could be expected to have a reasonable chance of defeating a corresponding team of logging elephants. |
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[Ian] yes, latency would be a problem
[xen] you're right, handicaps would be needed as you'd also be able to compete under different weather conditions, different terrain, and on surfaces with different coefficients of friction |
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This would be still cleaner if done strictly with virtualness. It would be a test of mouse/cursor strengths. |
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[Trying to think up rules for 'Online Tug-of-Love' service] |
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Very halfbaked. That's more like it. |
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But how do I keep from falling into and breaking the screen? |
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DrBob, the rules would be: don't push without also pulling, and don't use your teeth. |
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