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Good ideas can take a lot of time, and if this very concept doesn't turn out to be useful, maybe they will learn things along the way that will have good applic
by fransje26 3y ago
Good ideas can take a lot of time, and if this very concept doesn't turn out to be useful, maybe they will learn things along the way that will have good applicability. I think it's absolutely amazing that they are persistently progressing on their idea.
But if they've been at it for 25 years, it raises an the question, how have they been funding their research for so long?
- Taniwha 3y agoInitially I think it was out of their own pockets, and they had a bunch of keen volunteers, who were also launching 'pong sats' high altitude balloons for highschool science experiments. While I was around the went from launching rockets out of boxes at ground level to doing it 20 miles up. More recently I think they've had some DoD funding
- fransje26 3y agoThanks! I'm very impressed with their persistence. And I love the approach they took to progress through small, incremental changes over time.