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The Mojave Desert: Home of the New Machine Movement (bloomberg.com)
pacopico writes: Most people think of the Mojave Desert as a wasteland located somewhere between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. For decades, though, Mojave has served as something of an engineering playground for people in the automotive and aerospace industries. Bloomberg has produced a documentary that looks at what's taking place with these engineers in 2016. There's a dude trying to make a flying car, Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic, a group called Hackrod using artificial intelligence software to make a car chassis, and the hacker George Hotz taking his self-driving car along the Las Vegas strip for the first time. One of the cooler parts of the show has a team of students from UCSD sending up a rocket with a 3D printed engine -- the first time any university team had pulled something like this off. Overall, it's a cool look at the strange desert rat tinkerers.
As someone who has spent significant time in the Mojave, trust me when I say its not a wasteland.
It will become one, once these hipsters finish with their tire tracks, disposable water bottles and condom wrappers.
places on earth and shitting it up.
Same deal with Quartzsite, Az. While it is still relatively small, it's gotten filled up wth yuppies using it as a commuter town for Phoenix/Eastern Mojave.
when not surrounded by people that want very badly to tell you what you're not allowed to do near them
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