• @[email protected]
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    29 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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      29 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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        9 months ago

        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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          39 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 :)