|Forum|Articles|The Zeta Project by Anubis Has anyone seen the Zeta Project. Its a cartoon that is shown weekdays on the WB. After seeing a few episodes I noticed some, lets say problems, in their show. Zeta (the robot) has this self healing feature where a mechnical arm with a laser on it will come out of a hole in his chest and fix him. I think Balgon needs to pull out a can of whoop-ass on the makers of Zeta, as they seem to have stolen his optical carrier wave technology. How else could a wide dispersal laser beam cause solid metal to coalesce out of thin air   Zeta has these telescoping arms that he frequently uses in the show. These consist of a segemeted shaft that extends from the intesection of his wrist and forearm joint. Apparently the makers of Zeta also have access to replicator technology, as I could see no other way that a 40 foot long segmented metal rod, a rod with a net volume greater than Zeta himself, could extend seamlessly from his wrist socket.   In the first episode of the show Zeta uses his telescoping arms to pull down a large CRT display hanging from the ceiling, to block off pursuing goverment agents. From the shot of the agents clambering over the fallen display I would have to say the CRT tubes were about 8 feet on a side, with an internal volume so large that Micahs crushed-into-a-cube Pinto could be fit in it ten times over. This CRT exceeds the size of any CRT ever built at this day and time, and anyone who has tried to move a 21 inch CRT will understand why. A CRT of that size and volume would weigh over 1000 pounds and the surface area to PSI would be so great that inplosion of the vaccum within would realase an explosive force equal to a 100 pounds of TNT. The display had, if my memory serves me, four of these CRTs mounted in it. That means the combined weight of this monster was somewhere around 4000 pounds. This display was secured to the ceiling, which suggests that inanely powerful structural bracing was used to hold it in place, which would no doubt require signficant force to break. Lets assume that Zeta weighs 500 pounds. His feet appear to be made out of brushed aluminium, and he was standing on a metal floor. Assuming that Zeta feet have no unknown elastic or tactile properys his feet would offer about as much restiance as a greased ball bearing rolling down a sheet of glass covered in Crisco. Given all of this a force is applied between Zeta and the display with a strength great enough to break the bond between the display and the ceiling. What little I know about physics leads me to believe that the display would not drop to the ground, as depicted by the cartoon but that Zeta would be pulled toward the display with a force equatable to the detonation of an atom bomb, and shortly after reaching a terminal velocity of several hundred miles per hour, he would collide with the display, causing a chain reaction inplosion that would reduce everyone within a 20 foot raidus into a quivering pile of goo. So if the Zeta project were at all realistic, Zeta would be dead by now.   Syntax Error/:|Forum|Articles|