RoboBlitz T-shirt contest: Day 1 [update 1]

by Richard Mitchell on Nov 9th 2006 10:30AM

Some of you may recall that I was a little jealous of the RoboBlitz shirt that Naked Sky gave to Gamertag Radio's Godfree. It looks like Naked Sky's Tian Mu (who we interviewed yesterday) was listening, because he sent us not one, not two, but five T-shirts to give away. We have three men's shirts and two just for the ladies. Starting today, we'll give one away every day. What do you have to do to win? Well, we're not sure, but we'll think of something new every day.

Today's T-shirt is a men's large. Bearing a picture of Blitz the robot on the front, and the RoboBlitz title smartly emblazoned on the right sleeve. RoboBlitz is all about physics, so if you'd like to have this shirt as your very own (your preciousssss), all you have to do is tell us something fun you can do with physics. You know, things like kicking a ball, using a lever, or curb stomping a Locust. So, think something up, leave it in the comments, and we'll choose a winner completely at random. If you don't win today, just come back tomorrow. And if you don't win tomorrow ... well, then you'll have to come back Monday, but still, that's an awesome shirt, right? Get to it and good luck.

Update: This contest is now closed, and we are on to Day 2. Check out our new contest here.

General contest stuff: Only one entry per person. Winners will be contacted via email in order to obtain shipping information. This contest is open to residents of the United States only.

Tags: contest, contests, naked sky, NakedSky, roboblitz, tian mu, TianMu, x360f contests, X360fContests

Reader Comments (52)

I like to make the frags bounce around like a ping-pong ball while playing some Gears!

You could take a parabolic flight in a cargo plane, then at the peak, while you're experiencing zero-G, scatter a bunch of brightly-colored rubber superballs throughout the cargo bay and wait for them to all come crashing down and bouncing chaotically when gravity returns.

Something fun with physics? Catapult a puppy, I guess...

Raise things up as high in the air as possible and then drop them to see if they bounce or go 'splat'.

hmm something fun to do...throw things at people while riding the ski lift at the fair?

I like to put it in the spokes of a bicycle causing small children or pompous adults to go flying through the air.

I'm a fan of David Letterman's "Will it Float" game. Put an object in water and see if it floats or sinks. Some results aren't what you'd expect...

Physics and Roller Coasters go hand in hand. In addition to riding, you can use it to make impressive crashes in Roller Coaster Tycoon and hopefully on Thrillville.

potato guns are always fun, but in the holiday console war spirit, should we make a PS3 gun? nah, profits on ebay are just too high.

I could catapult a PS3.

Ponies are precious

i like to lure squirrels into a sling-shot style waterballoon launcher with peanuts, then see how far they'll fly...

Convince your friends you can pee off the top of a building into a glass, and then get one of them to hold the glass while you try.

One of my favorite things to do with physics is use a planet's gravitational pull to slingshot myself in a new trajectory at a higher velocity, while juggling four full glasses of 2% milk.

Something fun with physics, I'd puke on a PS3 then chainsaw it.

I would demonstrate Newton's law by smacking my wife's ass and telling her that the sting of my hand hitting her ass is the result of the mass of my palm times the acceleration I forced on it plus drag due to gravity.

Bounce my wireless 360 controller off of 3 different walls when I killed due to lag on halo 2.

Shift My Center of Gravity so I can fit in a Large, that is what I would do with Physics.

I totally enjoy not floating into space and imploding to death.

With Physics I like to fly out of cars in Saints Row.

If I dont win the shirt than I will be forced to walk the streets compltly naked, which in turn gets me arrested which is the pyshics of the man keepin us down!

Take a tennis ball and a basketball. Hold the tennis ball on top of the basketball, make sure they're touching, and then lift them into the air like that and drop them. The basketball hits the ground first, bounces up, and shoots the tennis ball some 20 feet into the air.

You can have a lot of fun with magnets over superconductors. Somehow the magnetic field lines get "stuck" in the superconductor and the magnet will float!

http://www.fys.uio.no/super/levitation/

Smack a Viva Piñata with my Boomstick baby!

Just turn a glass full of water around! Pretty impressive, isn´t it ? :)

flying a plane

Fun with physics? Simple. Using the natural force of gravity, drop a PS3 from the the empire state building. My guess is that it won't survive.

I would use physics to launch an XBOX 360 into space, so one day an intelligent life form could find it and play the included Gears of War, which would totally scare them away from Earth. (It's the chainsaws baby!)

I'll get a low-def Wii and invite the Special Olympics team over to play that terrible, cartoon boxing game. I'll strap controllers on them and have a contest to see which one flails the hardest using the most force.

Only open to US residents? Richard, you've done me a personal disservice, and for this, I cry. T.T

Regardless, there's one physics-based gameplay mode that would make RoboBlitz the best XBLA game ever: Gary's Mod.

Particle accelerators are pretty cool.. We all know that opposite charges attract. But at a high voltage there is an enormous amount of positive charge. A negatively charged electron is attracted to the charge, and it moves very quickly to get to it. By moving towards the charge, the electron gets smashed into pieces!

More fun with magnets: the magnetic linear-kinetic accelerator.

To make this, you need some steel ball bearings (must be attracted to magnets), several strong rare-earth magnets (about the same size as the ball bearings), and a track to direct the motion along. A small version of this can easily be made with seven ball bearings, three magnets, and a wooden or plasic ruler with a groove down the center.

Anyway, to make the accelerator: Secure the magnets to the track with a few inches between each magnet. PLace two ball bearings adjacent to each magnet so that they are touching and keep one magnet to start the reaction. Should look something like

O____MOO____MOO____MOO____

where O = ball bearing, M = magnet, and __ = space on track.

Now, roll the first ball bearing (the one on the left) into the first magnet, and enjoy the wonders of magnetic attraction coupled with conservation of momentum. Be aware though that if this is set up properly, the ball bearing on the right will leave the track with a LOT of velocity and can potentially hurt you or other people/pets/objects nearby.

Physics are great for throwing my dog's chew toy. She enjoys the acceleration applied, the inertia that carries it through the air, and even the gravity and air resistance that slows it down and brings to to the floor. :)

Yay Roboblitz.

I like to throw poo, I'm sure that physics comes into play somewhere.

Get a basketball, bounce it on a ps3 till it breaks :-)

Something I used to do when I was younger is spin around in an office chair with casters with my arms out. When you pull your arms in, you spin faster. Or was that the other way around?

Physics are for n00bs!

I can build a thermo-nuclear generator McGyver style using only some string, a paper clip, and my handy dandy knowledge of neuclear physics. (Oh, and I need some really unstable isotopes too)

drop a penny off the empire state building and know you might've just killed someone below.

Well, I had an entry, but apparently the contest is for U.S. peoples. :(

LAMENT!

play with a wii-mote

Physics? Physics schmisics, useless in outer space and only useful for knife throwing down here on Earth.
Though, physics in video games are awesome. Case in point, Tony Hawk Project 8.

Curb stomping locusts is great and all,but I've also learned that with the proper leverage, you can try to curb stomp giant crabs. Weak points = massive damage.

Nothing like playing out an old old, not so funny, meme.

Personally? I'd like to put a cantaloupe in a slingshot and use the physics of wind resistance, force, angle, and gravity to see how accurately I can hit people leaving Gamestops with pre-orders for games that won't come out until the third quarter of the next year.

I like to see how many times I have to bash my head into the wall to make me forget that Halo 3 won't be out for another 6 months at least...So far it hasn't worked.

physics allows me to masturbate

Three words: Oblivion book dominoes.

I'd use physics to freeze myself until Halo 3 comes out.

"Waiting for Halo 3 is like waiting for Christmas...times a 1000"

When playing FEAR and the killing shot of the 10mm HV Penetrator pins the enemy to the wall from whichever location it hit. Being able to hit the enemy at angles and have them get pinned to the wall sitting a few feet off the ground. Even when you catch an arm or leg shot and they are stuck dangling by the extremity.

I LOVE THIS SITE! Can I get a medium or a small :P

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