Comment Awesome (Score 1) 1
Where's the next one going to happen? I want to see this.
Comment Great idea (Score 2, Interesting) 1
In other news, police destabilized the banking system when their arrest of twitter users for spreading rumors made the rumors more credible and famous.
Comment CAD probably (Score 1) 1
If you're going to be exchanging ideas with people over the internet, it would be useful to have a shared set of 3d models to work from. For example, If someone wanted to suggest a particular plumbing arrangement, they could modify the model and show you exactly what they had in mind.
If the CAD software is free and open-source, so much the better.
Comment Retrofitting the lunar lander challenge (Score 1) 1
Isn't this exactly what the lunar lander challenge was doing? Why is only 7 weeks is considered fast to retrofit armadillo rocket's contest entry with a guidance system? To compare this with NASA's earlier R&D timescales, we would need to factor in the man-hours AR spent preparing for the contest, and even then you would probably be comparing apples to oranges.
Comment Re:Job-seeking tips for computer programmers (Score 2, Funny) 349
He lost me at "going out in public." Who does that?
Comment Meet Paul Moller... (Score 1) 1
I'm not so much excited about the flying car as I am about the dynamically stable robot maid and a cushy job at Spacely Sprockets.