Slashdot should maybe hire a few octogenarians to fix some of the weird glitches we've been seeing lately.. I mean, what's up with that giant gray box along the entire right side of the page?
Well, let's see... A quadrotor requires four motors to fly.. The chances failure of any one of them is far higher, and will ruin your whole day. The props are exposed. That's obviously a problem. On the other hand, with this you can lose a few, or even most of the rudder servos and keep on going. All the works, especially the props are protectively caged from foreign objects. The center of gravity makes it more stable, A sphere is nice, but a cube would work well also. Either way, this design looks to be the simplest, most reliable you will find. Don't knock it.
I find your definition of 'complex' rather odd. Maybe you should study what it takes to make a rotor tilt, with all its linkages and swashplates and other critical things that can break down very easily. Putting all the moving parts into a protective roll cage is one of the best ideas to come out of this type of vehicle. If you have any doubts, just bump one of those quadrotors into a wall. And also note the center of gravity is below the prop, which makes it a bit more naturally stable.
Incorrect... If it had been Pelosi, she would be paid off by the phone companies, or otherwise given an offer she can't refuse. It is pointless to vilify an individual person or party. The authority itself is corrupt
Obviously you have no understanding of the nature of power and desire for it. It has been been well documented since ancient times. And the biggest "experiment" ever in 1920s-30s Germany has been written up in the most convincing manner by many psychologists.
It's too bad they say the experiment should never be performed again. Every student should be required to go through it, and maybe we can mitigate the revival of the savagery we are going through now. Simply reading up on it is not enough.
Jimmy Carter? Or the CIA boss, George Bush? Does it even matter? The whole thing is just another opium war.. That brown Mexican stuff was shit.. China White is where it's at
And the sidebar within the Slashdot linked article on the Seven advanced car technologies the government wants now does not say anything about driverless vehicles. That's what the priority should be. I mean. if reducing the risk of accidents is what you're after...
No, I only asked the question... And I understand that absolute rights are determined by pure physics (if you get pushed out of an airplane, you have the absolute right to fall to earth), nothing to do with deities or human 'morality'..
So, to put it in simpler terms, Are we part of civil society, or are we savages that can force others to act against their own interests to protect our own? And please, leave aside the relativism of the 'greater good'.. I don't play that game. That's the kind of crap the government is using now to justify torture, which only serves to make us all potential targets of the same
No, actually the stone age was more characterized by simple, nomadic survival of the fittest. It was more the settled community (collective) lifestyle that gave rise to powerful centralized authority with all its fancy 'philosophy' (mysticism) that everybody was afraid to question.
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Slashdot should maybe hire a few octogenarians to fix some of the weird glitches we've been seeing lately.. I mean, what's up with that giant gray box along the entire right side of the page?
Well, let's see... A quadrotor requires four motors to fly.. The chances failure of any one of them is far higher, and will ruin your whole day. The props are exposed. That's obviously a problem. On the other hand, with this you can lose a few, or even most of the rudder servos and keep on going. All the works, especially the props are protectively caged from foreign objects. The center of gravity makes it more stable, A sphere is nice, but a cube would work well also. Either way, this design looks to be the simplest, most reliable you will find. Don't knock it.
I find your definition of 'complex' rather odd. Maybe you should study what it takes to make a rotor tilt, with all its linkages and swashplates and other critical things that can break down very easily. Putting all the moving parts into a protective roll cage is one of the best ideas to come out of this type of vehicle. If you have any doubts, just bump one of those quadrotors into a wall. And also note the center of gravity is below the prop, which makes it a bit more naturally stable.
... we're never gonna survive, unless...
We get a little crazy
Now, if they could only find a way to make petrol out of the rest of the body ...
Made from blood.. No shortage of that
It's scrumdiddlyumptious!
It is still more expensive than bittorrent..
What commercials?
a temporary Senate committee...
Somebody's looking for some cheap laughs
Ted Stevens will get to the bottom of this!
Yep, from the underground
... we're dealing with government rather than corporate interests.
You must be way ahead of us if you can distinguish the two
No, it snot
Can you get anymore scummy than them?
ja, ja
Incorrect... If it had been Pelosi, she would be paid off by the phone companies, or otherwise given an offer she can't refuse. It is pointless to vilify an individual person or party. The authority itself is corrupt
"Lacking <sarcasm> tags"
Obviously you have no understanding of the nature of power and desire for it. It has been been well documented since ancient times. And the biggest "experiment" ever in 1920s-30s Germany has been written up in the most convincing manner by many psychologists.
It's too bad they say the experiment should never be performed again. Every student should be required to go through it, and maybe we can mitigate the revival of the savagery we are going through now. Simply reading up on it is not enough.
Jimmy Carter? Or the CIA boss, George Bush? Does it even matter? The whole thing is just another opium war.. That brown Mexican stuff was shit.. China White is where it's at
Make driving a bigger pain in the ass than it already is..
And the sidebar within the Slashdot linked article on the Seven advanced car technologies the government wants now does not say anything about driverless vehicles. That's what the priority should be. I mean. if reducing the risk of accidents is what you're after...
Does this include police checkpoints? For some reason, I doubt it... But I thought I'd ask anyway
Politics and morality... An interesting combination... Is that like sweet and sour?
Looks like I previously responded to the wrong comment.. Anyway, you're close..They did use to spin the whole engine back in the day
...it's a truly revolutionary device.
Maybe... about hundred years ago...
I was never paranoid about F8. I use it all the time.
No, I only asked the question... And I understand that absolute rights are determined by pure physics (if you get pushed out of an airplane, you have the absolute right to fall to earth), nothing to do with deities or human 'morality'..
So, to put it in simpler terms, Are we part of civil society, or are we savages that can force others to act against their own interests to protect our own? And please, leave aside the relativism of the 'greater good'.. I don't play that game. That's the kind of crap the government is using now to justify torture, which only serves to make us all potential targets of the same
The 5th amendment is a privilege??
No, actually the stone age was more characterized by simple, nomadic survival of the fittest. It was more the settled community (collective) lifestyle that gave rise to powerful centralized authority with all its fancy 'philosophy' (mysticism) that everybody was afraid to question.