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    Codenamed Yellow Jacket, This Unmanned Helicopter Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs

    MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly?

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    Image of B52HVet B52HVet
    11/03/09

    In reply to Codenamed Yellow Jacket, This Unmanned Helicopter Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs
    From the full article:

    "All active electronic devices, including wireless receivers used to trigger to IEDs - radiate electronic energy, and US researchers have developed ways to detect and identify such devices based on these "unintentional" emissions."

    I'm damned glad that we are getting tech like this into service. I've had too many friends injured/killed from (comparatively) stone aged tech overseas. Hope this works as well as advertised. #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    Image of CurtisMugen CurtisMugen
    11/03/09

    In reply to Codenamed Yellow Jacket, This Unmanned Helicopter Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs
    Silly codename? As a Georgia Tech football fan, I disagree and merely hope that when it finds an IED, it runs the option on it.
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    11/03/09

    In reply to Codenamed Yellow Jacket, This Unmanned Helicopter Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs
    This needs to be painted with black and yellow stripes. #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    Image of Meantux Meantux
    11/03/09

    In reply to Codenamed Yellow Jacket, This Unmanned Helicopter Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs
    "will be able to survey areas for the electromagnetic emissions associated with receivers and provide an early warning to soldiers." ???

    In my book a receiver is passive and can't be detected, less getting its "electromagnetic emissions associated". What's next? warp drive?... #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    11/03/09

    @Meantux: Most IEDs use cell phones that check in with towers often. That's my guess. #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    11/03/09

    @The Lab: Actually, that is one way that can be sent.

    While it would be bad form for me to mention exactly how it works, it is within the safety briefings that troops of many countries are given. #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    11/03/09

    @Meantux: Most receivers use oscillators to tune their receiver, and those oscillators emit RF. Sensitive detection circuitry can tell if you have a receiver operating, and what frequency it's tuned to.

    It's similar to the way the VG-2 "radar detector detector" works - it listens for frequencies emitted by your radar detector as it listens for radar, and alerts the police that you have a radar detector in the car. #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    Image of Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
    11/03/09

    In reply to Codenamed Yellow Jacket, This Unmanned Helicopter Sniffs Out Roadside Bombs
    Interesting. It's too bad that there (currently) isn't an aerial unmanned version of the MICLIC that can destroy those roadside (and elsewhere) pests.

    DARPA.... get to work on it! #unmannediedsniffinghelicopter
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    10/18/09

    In reply to MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly?
    To have this for D&D....mapping... I mean. #helicopter
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    10/17/09

    In reply to MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly?
    Damn, I would love to study at MIT #helicopter
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    Image of crazacool crazacool
    10/16/09

    In reply to MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly?

    ..and what if this D0G could fly? #helicopter
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    10/17/09

    @crazacool:

    lol, that's what I thought he was referring to at first. The helicopter looks just like a manhack. #helicopter
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    10/16/09

    In reply to MIT’s Autonomous Helicopter: What if Big Dog Could Fly?
    We human beings are sooooooo fucked. #helicopter
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    09/25/09

    In reply to Too Far, Nerds: Flying a Camera on an R/C Helicopter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store
    The one pedestrian I saw makes me think otherwise, but the whole thing looks really really fake.

    I'm not saying it is, but it looks it, which I think is commentworthy.
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    Image of nuclearlove nuclearlove
    09/25/09

    In reply to Too Far, Nerds: Flying a Camera on an R/C Helicopter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store
    Man that music is perfect! Too bad there wasn't anything to see.
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    Platypus Man promoted this comment nuclearlove was starred nuclearlove was unstarred
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    09/25/09

    @nuclearlove: Thank Michael Giacchino and his music from Pixar's "Up."
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    Image of BaconForTheSoul BaconForTheSoul
    09/25/09

    In reply to Too Far, Nerds: Flying a Camera on an R/C Helicopter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store
    I'm pretty sure these guys were doing it more for the ability to simulate the GTA effect from that all too infuriating Vice City Mission.
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    Image of nectur nectur
    09/25/09

    In reply to Too Far, Nerds: Flying a Camera on an R/C Helicopter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store
    Am I the only one that got a GTA RC Helicopter mission feel from that video?
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    Image of ckcallen ckcallen
    09/25/09

    In reply to Too Far, Nerds: Flying a Camera on an R/C Helicopter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store
    Anyone remember the level in GTA:Vice City where you fly the RC chopper through the construction site?
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    09/25/09

    In reply to Too Far, Nerds: Flying a Camera on an R/C Helicopter Over an Under-Construction Apple Store
    The Willy Wonka music was the best part of the video.
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    Image of sonnenkonig sonnenkonig
    09/25/09

    @Trowble (XBL/PSN): Willy Wonka? I thought the music was from Pixar's Up
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    09/25/09

    @sonnenkonig: It does sound a little like Willy Wonka, but I'm 100% sure it's Up, which is a great movie, by the way.
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