If the DARPA involvement is just to encourage cleverness and the sciences, I don't think he has a leg to stand on (or his principles are WAY different than mine), but if DARPA is having the kids build specific technologies being used for military applications, it might be worth parting ways over it.
At best they want to encourage science education so that maybe they'll have more scientists to choose from to build the weapons of tomorrow. At worst they're staging robotics competitions with obvious and only thinly-veiled combat applications. If you watch videos of these things it's not too unusual to see military brass walking among the competitors in full dress uniform, so the competitors obviously don't give a shit what they're contributing to.
We should see if we can quickly deplete their list of denial options until they no longer deny the problem and say they simply refuse to act and will bury themselves in deep-underground suspended animation chambers...then I'll find a way to get myself onto the list of people to be preserved, and as an expert dune buggy driver, decent marksman, and could-be-worse boomerang thrower, the cute post-apocalyptic future-women will be mine!:D MUAHAHAHAHA, a flawless plan!
Those give STOL capability but not VTOL. If the spin-up motor were used off the ground, it would start to spin the craft like a helicopter with a broken tail rotor.
The forward motion of the craft drives constant autorotation (some have a main rotor "starter" to shorten takeoff though). It can glide a good distance if the engine quits, much more than a helicopter because of the rearward tilt of the rotor axis on a gyrocopter.
On the net or IRL? If on the net I'd recommend Slashdot user bonch right off the top of my head. I can search through the Apple-related discussions and find more.
IRL, I'm not giving real names of people I know, but you can find some in any Apple store or Starbucks.
It's a real car that can fly, but it's not what people expect when you call it a "flying car." Any average Joe would be horribly disappointed that it needs runways.
No I think you don't understand what "curated computing" means, it's basically synonymous with "walled garden computing." It's where a central authority decides which apps are available for a platform. Linux repos are curated but not an example of curated computing (since users are free to add, remove and create and share repos, and apps can be freely installed directly on the device as well).
Haha you fell for it. Repos are not curation because there is no limitation on which repos you can use, much like a jailbroken iPhone and the various jailbreaker app stores, to put it in terms you might be familiar with.
I know of tons of non-Cirrus aircraft with a parachute system, the Ikon A5 for example. A lot of tiny planes have them. It could go at the end of the tail boom to avoid the rotor.
LOL shows what you know. The rotor can stall in the same way that a wing can stall. Gyrocopters fly a lot like fixed-wing aircraft but there are some quirks you need to be aware of, probably the biggest one being the rotor speed/airspeed lag.
It has active carving suspension - it leans into the corners.
The main blade system isn't driven, it's a gyrocopter and suffers from all the inherent safety issues they have. I assume it has a parachute like most similarly-sized aircraft.
Yeah it is STOL. VTOL is practical for use in a "flying car" when it can take off with little more room than the vehicle's own footprint. The only reason a true flying car may not be able to take off from a traffic jam is exhaust heat. A series-hybrid electric system would take care of this, since exhaust heat could be concentrated and directed straight down from the center of the craft, or maybe even purely electric drive could be used near the ground.
In all of science fiction flying cars have flown directly from the starting point to destination with no driving to or from airports in between (except some Asimov works where the world is apparently littered with runways). So to follow that definition, this is not a "flying car."
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If the DARPA involvement is just to encourage cleverness and the sciences, I don't think he has a leg to stand on (or his principles are WAY different than mine), but if DARPA is having the kids build specific technologies being used for military applications, it might be worth parting ways over it.
At best they want to encourage science education so that maybe they'll have more scientists to choose from to build the weapons of tomorrow. At worst they're staging robotics competitions with obvious and only thinly-veiled combat applications. If you watch videos of these things it's not too unusual to see military brass walking among the competitors in full dress uniform, so the competitors obviously don't give a shit what they're contributing to.
What do you think DARPA is interested in all this stuff for? Shits and giggles?
We should see if we can quickly deplete their list of denial options until they no longer deny the problem and say they simply refuse to act and will bury themselves in deep-underground suspended animation chambers...then I'll find a way to get myself onto the list of people to be preserved, and as an expert dune buggy driver, decent marksman, and could-be-worse boomerang thrower, the cute post-apocalyptic future-women will be mine! :D MUAHAHAHAHA, a flawless plan!
Those give STOL capability but not VTOL. If the spin-up motor were used off the ground, it would start to spin the craft like a helicopter with a broken tail rotor.
The forward motion of the craft drives constant autorotation (some have a main rotor "starter" to shorten takeoff though). It can glide a good distance if the engine quits, much more than a helicopter because of the rearward tilt of the rotor axis on a gyrocopter.
I didn't just make the term up, it's almost as old as iOS:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=curated+computing
On the net or IRL? If on the net I'd recommend Slashdot user bonch right off the top of my head. I can search through the Apple-related discussions and find more.
IRL, I'm not giving real names of people I know, but you can find some in any Apple store or Starbucks.
I see plenty on the Internet, I know a few IRL but I haven't seen them in a while.
An autogyro's rotor isn't powered by a perpetual motion device, it is possible to stall even if it's not easy or sudden.
Who knows how much longer it would have taken to discover if Crick wasn't tripping balls:
http://www.miqel.com/entheogens/francis_crick_dna_lsd.html
It's a real car that can fly, but it's not what people expect when you call it a "flying car." Any average Joe would be horribly disappointed that it needs runways.
No I think you don't understand what "curated computing" means, it's basically synonymous with "walled garden computing." It's where a central authority decides which apps are available for a platform. Linux repos are curated but not an example of curated computing (since users are free to add, remove and create and share repos, and apps can be freely installed directly on the device as well).
It's-a me, Neutronio!
a guy's access list is transparent and widely-known
No fat chicks or uggos
women have a vested interest in keeping the blacklist secret
No broke dudes, creepy dudes* or uggos - QUICK SOMEBODY CALL WIKILEAKS!
*Staring is considered creepy behavior
Yep a case of "quick, hide the symptom!"
Anybody could make a web app that does the same thing in a couple hours (thanks browser geolocation API!).
Haha you fell for it. Repos are not curation because there is no limitation on which repos you can use, much like a jailbroken iPhone and the various jailbreaker app stores, to put it in terms you might be familiar with.
I know of tons of non-Cirrus aircraft with a parachute system, the Ikon A5 for example. A lot of tiny planes have them. It could go at the end of the tail boom to avoid the rotor.
LOL shows what you know. The rotor can stall in the same way that a wing can stall. Gyrocopters fly a lot like fixed-wing aircraft but there are some quirks you need to be aware of, probably the biggest one being the rotor speed/airspeed lag.
See: All of science fiction
A glowing hot sword isn't a light saber either.
It has active carving suspension - it leans into the corners.
The main blade system isn't driven, it's a gyrocopter and suffers from all the inherent safety issues they have. I assume it has a parachute like most similarly-sized aircraft.
Yeah it is STOL. VTOL is practical for use in a "flying car" when it can take off with little more room than the vehicle's own footprint. The only reason a true flying car may not be able to take off from a traffic jam is exhaust heat. A series-hybrid electric system would take care of this, since exhaust heat could be concentrated and directed straight down from the center of the craft, or maybe even purely electric drive could be used near the ground.
This is a gyrocopter not a helicopter. It handles much like a fixed-wing aircraft including the need for runways.
Nothing's wrong with using a roadable aircraft as intended but it's nothing like the sci-fi concept of a flying car.
In all of science fiction flying cars have flown directly from the starting point to destination with no driving to or from airports in between (except some Asimov works where the world is apparently littered with runways). So to follow that definition, this is not a "flying car."
Like an Aptera, T-rex or Morgan 3-wheeler?
It all folds neatly onto the back of the vehicle when driving.