alt Hacker News> I gently bounce ("slam"?) that chopstick off of a thing
Hey, remember when I said this?
>>>> Think of the rigidity of the whiskers as being traded off against your maximum movement speed.
Appendages on a moving object can't contact anything gently. They have to strike at whatever speed they're moving at.
Yes, you've confirmed: We're quite clearly speaking different languages.
(Good luck with...whatever it is that you may be talking about. My diction was good. I don't have time or patience to explain it for outliers who aren't following along well and who also insist that it must somehow be wrong.)