getting out of a hiatus - April 17th, 2016

Sunday, April 17^th 2016

Mission Type : Unassisted Solosan

Path Orientation : Road-Sweep, radial vicinity from TPS.

Personal Report:

Since I haven’t been sanitizing for a while, getting back into it feels new and kinda strange. The sanitizing skills didn’t just kick in the very moment I extracted my ARP from my back-strap. The activity felt pointless at first, I guess because the extremity of the situation that I expected was too high. Probably because I reviewed too much time lapse videos of sanitizing and really expected sanitizing to be that fast. Simply put, I forgot how to enjoy being in the sanitizing zone for a long time.

Conclusions :

I have to constantly question myself about my purpose and intentions in sanitizing. I have to remember some motivational punchlines, such as, “trash is on its way to destroy life, I am correcting Its course.” Even though really, the trash I sanitize will pretty much end in the Landfill if not burnt by the local TPS managers to reduce volume. So this gives me another question, is sanitizing actually correcting trash’s course, or making things worse? Well, we are still far from the time where the pollution of plastic trash is significant enough to cause detectable harm, but starting the solution today, might help ease fixes in the future. You are doing the right thing, keep at it.

Technical Report:

Turns out that the way trash is scattered doesn’t match with most models I make for demonstrating the utility of the ARP02 during road-sweeps. I find these small trash concentrations smaller than average IDSs and I call them mini-IDSs. As we know it the ARP02 can efficiently pick up plastic pieces scattered at an average of 5 cm apart from one another along a certain path or area. Any denser than that, we might need a ARP with a large jaw capable for chomping loads of trash each bite. Otherwise you would have to swing your arm back and forth exhaustingly picking up the trash one by one, when will you ever advance? We have the ARP03 of course, but these mini-IDSs are small, and carrying a giant chomping machine along the way only to clean up a small concentration of trash that you are not so likely to encounter during a road-sweep is just not worth it. Let’s put it this way, ARP03s are only made for planned DSTOs where we are certain about the probable density of trash in a region that we already know has a serious IDS in it. We can’t bring an ARP03 as a secondary equipment, It’s too heavy.

Conclusions:

A single handed ARP03 practical enough to be used as a secondary. I also think that adding mods to the Battle-ARP02 can be a solution.