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    Re: Tripod Design... —Ben Kimball
   (...) Ooh, there were some very cool old scifi books about conical aliens with three legs. In the novels (whose names and author I cannot recall), they sort of rolled, canted up at an angle. This would require some pretty serious balancing. Maybe a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
   
        Re: Tripod Design... —Pete Hardie
   (...) Probably the White Mountain trilogy, made into _Tripods_ by the BBC. Cool books, and a surprisingly mature juvenile book series, IIRC. For a tripod walker, you'd probably need to either to do a spinning walk, where only one leg is down, (but (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
 

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