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MIT's Acrobatic Helicopter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-a-bird-it's-a-plane dept.

YourHero writes: "MIT has a new toy, a remotely-piloted helicopter that's agile, stable, and in the current public mood, perfect for urban combat and reconnaisance and surveying disaster sites. Oh, and it's also good for aerial photography. It's so good that it even does 360-degree aileron rolls at the flick of a switch. The release gives some basics, videos and other juice are here. This cost $40k, excluding labor, because technically, student labor is "priceless" - so a nod to Kara Sprague, Alex Shterenberg, Ioannis Martinos, Bernard Mettler, and Vlad Gavrilets, who probably provided most of the labor. Stringfellow Hawk has not been reached for comment."

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  1. Re:Fucking Slashdot! by Cliff · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, the reason these are getting rejected is that we have another story in the pipe that covers these topics. Sorry you feel like you are being picked on, but the fact is: you aren't.

    If you hadn't blanked your email on those submissions, someone would have sent you a message saying WHY your submissions were getting rejected.

    In any rate, thanks for your dilligence. We have the story already. You can stop submitting it, now. ;-)

  2. Re:Fucking Slashdot! by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man, would you guys please fix the page widening posts? Just make a limit of 2 nested block quote tags or something.

    --
    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  3. Re:Fucking Slashdot! by erroneus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's going on? It's simple:

    Slashdot editors have decided to give up being even-minded individuals. With all the crap I've read about this Michael character, I'm pretty convinced that he's a fairly petty individual where his emotions rule his world.

    I agree, those articles you have linked to are both newsworthy and appropriate for mention on Slashdot. But I guess Slashdot isn't as much about space-stuff as they are about Computer-stuff.

    Personally, I love all the science-stuff, but there's no accounting for taste. But in this case, taste shouldn't be the criteria! It should be based on relevancy to the founding agenda of Slashdot. I've seen some really stupid things go up recently... and apparently, a lot of people agree with me on that due to the lack of commentary associated with the articles mentioned.

    Is Slashdot a business or is it some sort of personal toy operating on random and personal whim?