On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 07:32:44 AM charles green did opine: > the discreet spline teeth are also an approximation. in fact, anything > made out of atoms is flexible and grainy. why not construct mechanisms > from massless rigid rods and such? I have seen some drawings of such, from Marten-Marrietta back in the Titan 1 glory days, 1961 or so, but the construction material was always specified as pure unobtainium.
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