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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. Flips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It can do them, yeah.

  2. But... by wiredog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not black? How can it not be black?

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  3. Stop it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will you stop downloading those videos! I haven't finished downloading yet!

  4. Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More of my tax dollars being wasted.

    Al Qeuda is planning more attacks, and MIT is building toy helicopters.

    Wonderful.

    Perhaps we should just slash the entire defense budget and give everybody in the country a shitload of Legos to play with.

  5. I'd like to know why I can't metamoderate anymore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd like to know why I can't metamoderate anymore. I think it's because I metamodded unfair a whole mess of posts that were modslapped.

  6. Fucking Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What's wrong with this (IMO) interesting submission?!

    Things are looking both up and down for NASA, with lots of recent activity, especially budget and focus related. A computer glitch shuts off Alpha guidance system while a glitzy new orbiter to make X-ray flicks of sun is all set to go. NASA budget cuts human flight, pushes nukes in space after Bush blasts NASA on the shuttle program. In related news, Japan faced another setback during a recent launch.

    * 2002-02-05 18:59:37 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:05:17 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:11:33 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:19:18 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:30:55 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:36:48 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:41:53 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:47:02 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news) (rejected)
    * 2002-02-05 19:52:22 State of the NASA Nation (articles,news)

    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.

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    3. Re:Fucking Slashdot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Ummm bullcrap....

      I submitted several times for things I saw appear from 3 days to 2 weeks later..

      you guys dont accept submissions from people that aren't in your circle... plain and simple... if you just admit it everyone would quit bugging you.

    4. 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?