Most professors already have a large number of inexpensive and skilled robots used to perform repetitive tasks during much of the day - they're called "grad students".
The funniest part about this for me is that Jordan is the son of my advisor, who is an electrical engineering professor at Stanford. I've been hearing about this musical since my sophomore year intro to semiconductors course. He even brought the music in on his laptop and played it in class.
Jordan also designs software for iPods, so don't worry! The writers know what real nerds are like.
I work on a very similar program (Airborne Laser) which has a megawatt-class laser on a 747. I'm just an intern, so I don't know all the classified numbers, but I've been told the range is over 100 km, which could make it possible to reach that high/far. There are a lot of adaptive optics to deal with problems of beam divergence and allow it that range. Shooting upwards also alleviates the amount of absorption since there's less crap the higher you go up. And yes, the laser could theoretically aim upwards, it can rotate 360 degrees.
Kinda funny actually, my manager and advisor have been gone all day since they're also working on HELLADS. Today was their big DARPA design review.
Ironically enough, some of Google's first setup (possibly the one pictured) is sitting in a display case in the basement of the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford
I predict that within one-hundred years, planes will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will be able to afford one!
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Most professors already have a large number of inexpensive and skilled robots used to perform repetitive tasks during much of the day - they're called "grad students".
The funniest part about this for me is that Jordan is the son of my advisor, who is an electrical engineering professor at Stanford. I've been hearing about this musical since my sophomore year intro to semiconductors course. He even brought the music in on his laptop and played it in class.
Jordan also designs software for iPods, so don't worry! The writers know what real nerds are like.
I work on a very similar program (Airborne Laser) which has a megawatt-class laser on a 747. I'm just an intern, so I don't know all the classified numbers, but I've been told the range is over 100 km, which could make it possible to reach that high/far. There are a lot of adaptive optics to deal with problems of beam divergence and allow it that range. Shooting upwards also alleviates the amount of absorption since there's less crap the higher you go up. And yes, the laser could theoretically aim upwards, it can rotate 360 degrees.
Kinda funny actually, my manager and advisor have been gone all day since they're also working on HELLADS. Today was their big DARPA design review.
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Ironically enough, some of Google's first setup (possibly the one pictured) is sitting in a display case in the basement of the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford
I predict that within one-hundred years, planes will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will be able to afford one!