Comment Re:Do not trust Google (Score 1) 53
/s Now that can't be true. Wasn't their motto "Do no Evil"? /s
Comment Re:So who's going to pay for that? (Score 1) 34
Yeah, sounds like fairy tales and unicorns to me. Other than government jobs and the executive suite, I've never seen this magic "paying for training" thing in my career... and I'm closer to retirement than starting out.
Submission + - Lockheed Martin to build high-energy airborne laser for fighter planes (newatlas.com)
Big Hairy Ian writes: In a move that could revolutionize aerial combat, the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has awarded Lockheed Martin a US$26.3 million contract to design, develop, and produce a high-power laser weapon that the AFRL wants to install and test on a tactical fighter jet by 2021. The new test weapon is part of the AFRL Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) program tasked with developing airborne laser systems.
Airborne laser weapons are nothing new. Experimental lasers mounted on aircraft date back to the US Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, but producing a practical weapon system has proven difficult. Previous attempts have resulted in dodgy chemical laser weapons so bulky that they had to be mounted in a 747, but the development of solid state fiber optic lasers is starting to change the game.
Airborne laser weapons are nothing new. Experimental lasers mounted on aircraft date back to the US Strategic Defense Initiative of the 1980s, but producing a practical weapon system has proven difficult. Previous attempts have resulted in dodgy chemical laser weapons so bulky that they had to be mounted in a 747, but the development of solid state fiber optic lasers is starting to change the game.
Submission + - Your visual skills are not correlated to your IQ (vanderbilt.edu)
Science_afficionado writes: Psychologists at Vanderbilt University have conducted the first study of individual variation in visual ability. They have discovered that there is a broad range of differences in people’s capability for recognizing and remembering novel objects and this ability is NOT associated with individuals’ general intelligence, or IQ.
