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Tower To Be Built By Flying Robots 58

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @04:19AM from the quadrocopter-bots-to-unionize dept.

Zothecula writes with an excerpt from an article in Gizmag: "The FRAC Centre in Orléans, France will for the first time host an exhibition to be built entirely by flying robots. Titled 'Flight Assembled Architecture,' the six meter-high tower will be made up of 1,500 prefabricated polystyrene foam modules. The installation involves a fleet of quadrocopters that are programmed to interact, lift, transport and assemble the final tower, all the time receiving commands wirelessly from a local control room."

Comment Re:Great. I'm doing it now (Score 4, Informative) 218

by ach1000 on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @01:42PM (#34188048) Attached to: Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook

https://www.google.com/dashboard

Mars Rover Spirit Still Alive 185

Posted by timothy on Friday November 14, 2008 @12:01AM from the brief-flower's-bloom dept.

Toren Altair writes with this excerpt from a story at The Space Fellowship: "NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of 'She's talking!' among the rover team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 'This means Spirit has not gone into a fault condition and is still being controlled by sequences we send from the ground,' said John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., project manager for Spirit and its twin, Opportunity."

Comment Re:Pioneer Anomaly (Score 1) 418

by ach1000 on Friday August 29, 2008 @09:26AM (#24793417) Attached to: Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance

I heavily doubt it, the Pioneer Anomaly is essentially a very small but unexplained forced. I'm not a physicist but I'm not sure how you plan to link radioactive decay rates with small forces.

Part of the Pioneer Anomlay is though to be radiation pressure from the radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) although there is still an unexplained part. However is the rate of decay varies with the distance from the sun then the radiation pressure from the RTGs will also change (and no longer match our models).

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