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Wait, how did they make the cadaver arms punch and slap?
I take "a pendulum-like device" to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.
This whole device sounds morbid but hilarious. Did they like strap dead bodies to a swing and position them like Superman and swing their bodies into a wall fist fist?
That would have been awesome, but I suspect that it was just the arms and that it was powered in some way, hence "pendulum-like".
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.
I take "a pendulum-like device" to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.
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.
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 :)
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