20 pounds = 9kg, for the rest of the world.
Drones that can haul a 20-pound load for 500 miles and land on a moving target
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#92“Both have graduate degrees from Stanford, which is where they met.”
So, basically the silver spoon of Silicon Valley. These guys have a shot!
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#93Re: Drones that can haul a 20-pound load for 500 miles and land on a moving target
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I'm no expert but how autonomous works if there's no positioning methods involved? (To avoid GPS/GLONASS,... Jamming)
Surprised nobodies mentioned celestial sensors. Celestial navigation by imaging the sky, and combining that data with a clock and compass.
Very unreliable for ground based systems.
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#95What 20 pound load could have saved the Titanic? Why wouldn't such a miraculous tool or part have been brought aboard already as a precaution?
They could drop the load on the captain before Titanic sailed off. That would delay the journey and probably save it from the incident (if we of course don't take into account insurance scam conspiracy)
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#9620 pounds = 9kg, for the rest of the world.
If that is cocaine, then it is almost $1m of cargo.
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#97If I was a drug lord, this is something I would invest my money to.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I quit IT to become a machinist. Now seeing how starved manufacturing is for talent, I suspect IT 'easy' money is a huge brain-drain on society.
The world can use more smart IT individuals. 7 years ago I left silicon valley and moved to Raleigh, NC. It was part of our grand plan to move all the extended family back to the same area. As part of this move I became involved with a couple manufacturing companies. I couldn't help but start helping with their IT set ups. I built some web apps to provide access to information locked up in their horrible ERP/MRP syst…
> What I did was not rocket science.
Exactly. You don’t need a 4-10 year degree in CS to solve them.
However, actual rocket science and other hard engineering disciplines is where educated talent is needed. Yet, the salary and startup opportunities are so much worse, that many mechanical and electrical engineers end up working in IT, consulting etc. You don’t build rockets, airplanes, cars or energy plants for the money
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Jamming drones is easier than you think, the new battleground will be autonomous flying to avoid trivial radio/gps jamming. MIT has open source code for this already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qah8oIzCwk https://github.com/andybarry/flight
I'm no expert but how autonomous works if there's no positioning methods involved? (To avoid GPS/GLONASS,... Jamming)
Another technique not mentioned yet: compss augmented with local magnetic field features.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I quit IT to become a machinist. Now seeing how starved manufacturing is for talent, I suspect IT 'easy' money is a huge brain-drain on society.
The world can use more smart IT individuals. 7 years ago I left silicon valley and moved to Raleigh, NC. It was part of our grand plan to move all the extended family back to the same area. As part of this move I became involved with a couple manufacturing companies. I couldn't help but start helping with their IT set ups. I built some web apps to provide access to information locked up in their horrible ERP/MRP syst…
I'm early into doing this same process right now for a somewhat larger facility. Capacity planning, product tracking, estimating lead times, etc. will make a huge difference in how the facility is run.
I'm an industrial engineer who deals with a fair bit of the IT side of manufacturing. I will echo the bit about it being very rewarding. It'd be cool to deploy something to millions of people, but there's something about making a physical thing work better that's just really cool. It's also way easier to explain to friends and family what you do.