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There’s something deeply poetic to this that DARPA didn’t understand the wisdom in what the “reinvent the wheel” phrase means. This seems to embody every bit o
by JohnJamesRambo 8y ago
There’s something deeply poetic to this that DARPA didn’t understand the wisdom in what the “reinvent the wheel” phrase means. This seems to embody every bit of its meaning. Replace rubber tires which are brain dead simple and work very well with zero maintenance with this complicated monstrosity that I have many doubts about even being an improvement.
- Shivetya 8y agoReminds me very much of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-star_(wheel_arrangement) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-star_(wheel_arrangement) which was used in the movie Damnation Alley for their Landmaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmaster which was quite functional considering it was custom built for the movie. While long, This video https://youtu.be/ZZYT2nYd46o https://youtu.be/ZZYT2nYd46o shows the gang rotate near 40 seconds and at end you can see it used in water (6:33) Being the scenes on its construction https://youtu.be/26n3RsXNyKE https://youtu.be/26n3RsXNyKE and it still exists as of 2016
- toomanybeersies 8y agoIt's literally DARPA's job to fund pie in the sky projects, in the hope that maybe some of them might be practical. The internet was born of a DARPA project, Siri was made with technology spun off from another. Project MAC was filled with groundbreaking research and development of AI and operating systems. All modern operating systems can trace their lineage back to Project MAC. The origins of GPS are also from an earlier DARPA project. Most DARPA projects will never be used in an operational environment, but the technology discovered and lessons learned inevitably find their way into other projects and technologies.