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Dabney B. on
Monday, November 12th, 2012
The United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency isn’t trying to reinvent the wing, but it is trying to reinvent how we manufacture wings. DARPA wants to tear down the existing military manufacturing process and rebuild the whole thing with a ...
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Dabney B. on
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Without question, the United States Air Force is the largest of its kind. It’s got the most expensive aircraft, the strongest weapons, and a massive fleet of flying drones. And yet DARPA is afraid that the USAF still isn’t strong ...
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Dabney B. on
Friday, September 7th, 2012
Robots are slowly crawling out of infancy and they are beginning to take their first fumbling steps towards free motion. Check out this clip of Robocup, a competition that pits robots against each other in a vicious match to determine ...
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Dabney B. on
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Science, the source of every single piece of military hardware that has ever been invented, relies heavily on experimentation. Science without experimentation is like music without sound. You can have a great idea, but unless you have some way of ...
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Dabney B. on
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
The US Air Force is in the business of speed. Decades ago, many people thought that breaking the sound barrier was impossible, or that it might even be lethal to human pilots. Nowadays, faster-than-sound travel is a relatively common feature ...
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