[Martinus]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Betamax?  You bastard!

[color=66ff00]Put away those firey biscuits!
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[BlackDove]

Bah, someone has to ruin it with a paragraph longer than one line.

[MicroPsycho]

Originally posted by Kazan
*gets into the HLP Mech*

I'll finish it

whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold the phone, when did HLP get a 'Mech and why wasn't I informed?

[Kazan]

MP that reference is old as the hills...

[Charismatic]

Mech? Wha??

[Cobra]

Toes. They're just dangling there, off the end of your feet, with a bunch of fragile little bones. Combine these with #1 above, and you've got a recipe for disaster. You think Jonathan Ive would have created something as stupid as toes?

we need them to walk. that's why they're there.

on the other hand...

[Charismatic]

Dont need them to sit in front of comptuer all day reading crap like this. But if its funny crap wtf, go ahead! Chop em off!

[Solatar]

I think you can walk without toes...albeit nice and funny like. You can't run without 'em IIRC though.

[aldo_14]

You probably can.  Just look at the guys in the paralympics who sprint on prosthetic legs.

[BlackDove]

This is a fantastic topic.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]I keep the results on 90 millenia betamax tapes.
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So that's why our old betamax machine went missing...

[Cobra]

Originally posted by aldo_14
You probably can.  Just look at the guys in the paralympics who sprint on prosthetic legs.

don't prosthetic legs have fake toes on them though?

[Marauder]

Originally posted by Cobra


don't prosthetic legs have fake toes on them though?

*pulls out machete* Do you want to find out? :devil:

[Cobra]

uh-oh...

[Solatar]

But prosthetic legs bend and such. Without the ability to push off the ground with your toes, I don't think you can run.

[Kazan]

solatar there are special running prosthetics

[Solatar]

*tries to save himself* ...special ones that bend perhaps?

[aldo_14]

They look a bit like spatulas....... there's a solid attachment IIRC to the knee (I'm not sure if you get them for amputees above the knee... maybe though), and where the 'foot' would be it's a sort of bendy plasty bit.

This isn't the best picture, but here's an example (96 Atlanta paralympics)


Might look odd, but they can run faster than pretty much anyone here (unless we have some olympians I don't know of).

[TrashMan]

Meh...

[mikhael]

Originally posted by Solatar
But prosthetic legs bend and such. Without the ability to push off the ground with your toes, I don't think you can run.

you can run without toes. You just don't get that maximum impetus for the second lever arm (lower leg to foot AND foot to toe).