Comment on A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech
Deebster@programming.dev 3 months agoI don’t know that I agree - it’s worth researching these things because if it works that’s great and that paper proves that other people are working on the visibility problem.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Research is great.
But the article is dismissing a very practical solution and implying it’s nonsense to pump up a pie in the sky longshot.
Deebster@programming.dev 3 months ago
That’s what the article says, they’re hardly implying it’s nonsense. Or are you saying that the self-healing is nonsense? There are examples of self-healing materials, like Roman concrete.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s extremely dismissive, of something that appears to resolve the issue entirely.
Self healing materials with similar properties and requirements to pole vaulting poles don’t exist. They might eventually, but we’re not close. When the weight and flex requirements are that strict, and failure is that catastrophic, expecting a solution in the next 20 years is extremely optimistic, and that’s ignoring costs entirely. The article should be discussing the actual real world solution far more.
Deebster@programming.dev 3 months ago
It’s far from my field, so I’ll have to take your word on that!