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TLDR; Sandia researches dead reckoning with a new kind of atomic accelerometer and gyroscope. It has nothing to do with avocados, aside from someone comparing
by aaaaaaaaaaab 5y ago
TLDR; Sandia researches dead reckoning with a new kind of atomic accelerometer and gyroscope.
It has nothing to do with avocados, aside from someone comparing the device’s size to that of an avocado, and that was probably the only thing the journalist understood so they went with it…
- tartoran 5y agoI really appreciate the TLDR; Saved me and others quite a bit of time
- FeepingCreature 5y agoYeah this article is very bad.
- gsliepen 5y agoIndeed. Also, the old system apparently "needs thousands of volts of electricity," which is too much for airplanes, despite them heating food with microwave ovens which typically use > 10 kV to drive the klystrons that generate the microwaves.
- pixl97 5y agoI'm guessing they turn off the microwave when things go bad, like engines going offline and reducing total power generation to the aircraft.
- tialaramex 5y agoTo be fair the "thousands of volts of electricity" nonsense is in their own press release not just this fluffy article. It's really hard to get the people writing for a lay audience to actually understand the difference between "Simpler for lay people to understand" and "Simply wrong". This is sort-of fine if you're making a Hollywood movie, but it makes serious research look pretty stupid. Unfortunately the rare person who understands and knows how to communicate this stuff to lay people is probably more valuable as a lecturer or in some management role than writing press releases :/
- dboreham 5y agoPerhaps it is green.
- analog31 5y agoLooks more like the size of an oscillation overthruster.
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