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Comment Re:Still got glitches (Score 3, Informative) 258

by pig_eye_jackson on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:51PM (#28031069) Attached to: Robot Soldiers Are Already Being Deployed

There is a good story about the only armed ground robot ever used "in theater" being pulled from Iraq at Popular Mechanics. This robot made the cover of Popular Mechanics in March 2008. Some details about the robot, SWORDS, and other versions of military robots in production can be found at Foster-Miller's website.

Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane 263

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 06, 2008 @02:51PM from the journey-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us that DARPA seems to still be having fun with their funding and continues to aim for the "far out." The latest program, a submersible airplane, seems to have been pulled directly from science fiction. Hopefully this voyage to the bottom of the sea is of the non-permanent variety. "According to DARPA: 'The difficulty with developing such a craft come from the diametrically opposed requirements that exist for an airplane and a submarine. While the primary goal for airplane designers is to try and minimize weight, a submarine must be extremely heavy in order to submerge underwater. In addition, the flow conditions and the systems designed to control a submarine and an airplane are radically different, due to the order of magnitude difference in the densities of air and water.'"

Comment Re:I've almost been saying this for years: (Score 1) 203

by pig_eye_jackson on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @08:42AM (#18412703) Attached to: University of Wisconsin-Madison Bucks RIAA

Buck is the best word to use here since UW's mascot is Bucky Badger.

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