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Calm down, this was just a fun practical experience course for students, that is being oversold by the news article: From the original press-release: >Hansman
by The_Double 9y ago
Calm down, this was just a fun practical experience course for students, that is being oversold by the news article:
From the original press-release:
>Hansman and Hoburg worked with MIT students to design a long-duration UAV as part of a Beaver Works capstone project — typically a two- or three-semester course that allows MIT students to design a vehicle that meets certain mission specifications, and to build and test their design.
Obviously a bunch of undergrads aren't going to design a revolutionary new airplane.
- rebootthesystem 9y agoYou missed my point. No problem with any of this except their use of tax money to fund it. If they need a capstone project they can pay for it themselves. Don't create a bullshit grant for something that will not be delivered. I mean, a five minute napkin calculation would quickly reveal the solar-whatever idea was nonsense. They still took the money and built exactly what the Air Force did not ask for. That's wrong in more ways than one.