Quite an interesting find. Commercialization of the work of applied physicist John Santarius of University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their system is similar sounding to IED detection technology that u/Revodude evidently promoted to the military years ago, but did not get much uptake (to his frustration).
Real close. My neutron source was more powerful (a lot) and the drone was bigger (and was bullet resistant). A key part is the software to analyze the return signals. Challenging then (we had it), but easy now. Could have saved a lot of lives and limbs. We also came up with a way of remote detonating the blasting caps they were using for the big ones. But they gave big bucks to Lockheed for something that didn’t work and couldn’t be used on Afghan roads.
In the era of mainframe computers there used to be a saying. No one ever got fired for buying IBM. The equivalent among the American military industrial complex I suppose is Lockheed Martin.
Yep. Despite many efforts to go small and creative, that is usually crushed by the big guys or the contracting officers. Even when you get the money put in the budget for your solution, the big guys can swoop in and take the money. And then deliver crap.
Think of the IED (improvised explosive devices, aka little cheap grenade-like bombs) buried under dirt roads during the Iraq wars, waiting for US troops to drive over them. Lots of our personnel lost legs that way. Revodude's contraption would fly inside a drone, detect the IEDs with fancy physics. Then it emits some electromagnetic pulse to set off the trigger. Bomb blows up with no one around. Threat neutralized.
No ...a child's game. Two sides of kids linking hands or arms and someone from the other side, who is chosen, runs and tries to break through the chain! If they can't break through, that side takes that person for their chain. Eventually only one person left and the other side wins.
Kind of like musical chairs.
"Red Rover red rover send Robert right over".... Robert runs after being called from the other side and tries to break through. If he breaks through he goes back to his own team. The 60's in the burbs....🤣
This Red Rover?
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Quite an interesting find. Commercialization of the work of applied physicist John Santarius of University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their system is similar sounding to IED detection technology that u/Revodude evidently promoted to the military years ago, but did not get much uptake (to his frustration).
Real close. My neutron source was more powerful (a lot) and the drone was bigger (and was bullet resistant). A key part is the software to analyze the return signals. Challenging then (we had it), but easy now. Could have saved a lot of lives and limbs. We also came up with a way of remote detonating the blasting caps they were using for the big ones. But they gave big bucks to Lockheed for something that didn’t work and couldn’t be used on Afghan roads.
In the era of mainframe computers there used to be a saying. No one ever got fired for buying IBM. The equivalent among the American military industrial complex I suppose is Lockheed Martin.
Yep. Despite many efforts to go small and creative, that is usually crushed by the big guys or the contracting officers. Even when you get the money put in the budget for your solution, the big guys can swoop in and take the money. And then deliver crap.
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In English, for us kids in the back?
“Safe, remote bomb detection and detonation”?
Think of the IED (improvised explosive devices, aka little cheap grenade-like bombs) buried under dirt roads during the Iraq wars, waiting for US troops to drive over them. Lots of our personnel lost legs that way. Revodude's contraption would fly inside a drone, detect the IEDs with fancy physics. Then it emits some electromagnetic pulse to set off the trigger. Bomb blows up with no one around. Threat neutralized.
No ...a child's game. Two sides of kids linking hands or arms and someone from the other side, who is chosen, runs and tries to break through the chain! If they can't break through, that side takes that person for their chain. Eventually only one person left and the other side wins. Kind of like musical chairs.
"Red Rover red rover send Robert right over".... Robert runs after being called from the other side and tries to break through. If he breaks through he goes back to his own team. The 60's in the burbs....🤣