Micro-aerial vehicles, or MAVs as they're called in the elusive underground, are far from new, but a team from
NC State University is hoping to advance the field with an all new critter. The Robo-Bat is a remote controlled creature that relies on a super elastic shape-memory metal alloy for the joints, which is said to provide a full range of motion while enabling it to "always return to its original position -- a function performed by many tiny bones, cartilage and tendons in real bats." The crew is also utilizing other "smart materials" in the muscular system, giving it the ability to react in real time to environmental changes such as sudden wind gusts. Ideally, this bionic chiropteran would be used to chivvy those who dare step foot on Franklin Street or inside Cameron Indoor Stadium, but in less malicious situations, it could help well-meaning scientists get the bottom of that whole "aerodynamics" thing.
posted July 7th 2009 9:27AM
Yes... if you wanted to be the one that develops the technologies and methods that allow Ph.Ds & M.D.s to suck at their job and still manage to pull off semi-effective medicine.
The pompousness of a tarhole knows no boundaries and the false sense of general superiority is always at a high with the ones that can actually get a job in their field of study.
State had 3 national championships this year, FWIW.
This bat is pretty cool, would love to check it out sometime.
So...at State, when they're not having sex with their cousins and farming, they actually do something productive. That's wonderful. They should get a lollipop!
Oh, and to all the haters:
GO HEELS!!! 2009 CHAMPIONS BABY!
I feel sorry for all the women at Chapel Hill...all those guys and not a one willing to turn their eyes toward them.
It's alright, though...they find plenty of company over here in Raleigh just fine.
So. We are not that far f rom the mini flying robot which sits in the corner of the room, videos your secret password and bank account details, doesn't actually radio them to some distant source (detectable you see) but instead waits until you've left, flies out of the room, then transmits or, returns to base with all the details.
Of course, government agencies will use these first, then the villains will get hold of them.
How the hell do you notice something somewhere in a room with just a millimetre-or-two of size, that is not transmitting (therefore not conventionally detectable) and which can access your most private secrets?
Also. Unlike the real bugs, it is not susceptible to the usual killer asshole spray (is that how its spelt?)
i need one =\
Such an interesting thread. Just to clear it up, here are the facts for those that aren't in this area.
- It's not Dukies, it's Dookies.
- They do indeed call us Tar Holes
- State is the red-headed stepchild in this area. No athletics to speak of, no academics outside of engineering.
- Carolina and Duke are two of the best academic schools in the country, not to mention two schools at the pinnacle of sports.
- Carolina is the national NCAA basketball champ. State didn't even make it into the field of 64. It's sad, considering Sidney Lowe is the one classy guy at State.
Now State students, back in your hole.
Port,
Thanks for going ahead and proving Carolina fans are gigantic a-holes. We were trying to convey that point, but you came in to save the day and hammer it home for us. 'Preciate it!
Now, as to your "academic superiority," you would be well-served to google the terms "UNC" and "grade inflation." Seems it's pretty rampant over there in Chapel Hill, to the point that a trained monkey could walk through the halls and walk out with a diploma. Question: If everyone gets a diploma, is it really worth anything?
Have fun with your philosophy degree that took zero classroom effort to "achieve" and see how far it gets you in life. Bad news for you: Starbucks is contracting, not expanding, their store locations. So you're quickly running out of employment opportunities. Hey, there's always McDonalds...
P.S. Make my McDouble WITHOUT onions this time, please.
I need one of these.
However little it will matter to the flame war that's getting started, the comment by Lionhart on the first page was mine. I didn't confirm it, because in afterthought it wasn't necessary, but apparently it got posted anyway. This one's going downhill quickly. If you post "facts", make sure they're facts.
University of Texas has the world's largest urban bat colony living under the Congress Street bridge. And by urban, they mean Cryps and Bloods and will drive by bat yo' ass.
Creepy as hell, but interesting none-the-less.
Dukies
Tar-Holes
+1 for humor.
NC State sucks. But Carolina swallows.
GO DUKE!!!