• jadero
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      Anyone who hasn’t followed that link needs to do so now! It’s got human cadaver arms manipulated with fishing line and guitar tuning knobs. It’s got a link to an article titled “Your Face: Punching Bag or Spandrel?”

      You can’t possibly find a better way to spend 10 minutes!

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          110 months ago

          Oh that’s not good. Obviously, I’ve chosen to allow js, but basic stuff should work without it.

        • jadero
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          410 months ago

          Heh. I gave up trying to figure out voting a long time ago. I find it both fascinating and disturbing that there are people out there who see anything I write as worthy of a dowvote. :)

    • @fidodo
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      210 months ago

      Wait, how did they make the cadaver arms punch and slap?

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        310 months ago

        Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device.

        I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.

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          210 months ago

          This whole device sounds morbid but hilarious. Did they like strap dead bodies to a swing and position them like Superman and swing their bodies into a wall fist fist?

          • jadero
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            110 months ago

            That would have been awesome, but I suspect that it was just the arms and that it was powered in some way, hence “pendulum-like”.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 months ago

        You read the same article I did, so I’m also a little fuzzy on the exact details other than attaching fishing lines to tendons and possibly tightening them with guitar tuners. I’m not sure how they launched an attack.

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          210 months ago

          Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device.

          I take “a pendulum-like device” to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.

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            Fucking dangling modifiers. I thought they were saying that they manufactured targets using a pendulum-like device. I kept reading that statement thinking it was such an oddly specific detail to vaguely reference. But using a pendulum to ensure consistent force and accuracy makes sense.

            Although, for my money, I’d rather strap a dead hand to a rocket-powered sled.

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              310 months ago

              Yes, it was very badly constructed. I had to read it a couple of times to decode it, and I have the advantage of having graded essays :)