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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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          10 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. :)

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        10 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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        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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          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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              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 :)