RagingBITCH
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Originally posted by: cerebusPu
darpa does lots of way cool stuff. dissipate can stick the $1million up his ass.
No way - that'd be a waste of his and other taxpayer's money, much like this race
Originally posted by: cerebusPu
darpa does lots of way cool stuff. dissipate can stick the $1million up his ass.
Originally posted by: br0wn
Originally posted by: Dissipate
What makes you think the government needs to develop this, genius? All of this money is better off in private hands, the market can decide the optimum amount to put towards R&D projects.
I fully support this kind of project as it accelerates the development in the field. It has applications way beyond military use.
Internet was spun-off as a DARPA supported project, is that a waste of the tax dollars also?
Originally posted by: beer
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
There are already vehicles that have traveled all the way across the country on interstates by themselves. So I'd think that eventually they'd get this done, too.
Link?? I call shens.
See, my research has been funded by DARPA for the past two years. I've previously been funded by the ONR, AFOSR, and the NSF. A $1 million "prize" rather than up-front funding is kind of a new concept for me. DARPA usually publicizes a call for papers on a certain problem that they're looking to solve. They take in the papers and then pick the top twenty or so to come and present their ideas. Then they fund maybe five of those ideas.Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Wow, another great use of U.S. tax dollars.
These are all privately funded teams competing in the race, genius.
The $1 million prize is provied by DARPA a government agency, genius.
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Wow, another great use of U.S. tax dollars.
These are all privately funded teams competing in the race, genius.
The $1 million prize is provied by DARPA a government agency, genius.
They fund projects that came up with stupid stuff like RADAR and the Internet.
Originally posted by: OS
i don't get it, in the day of GPS and cruise missiles, this doesn't seem THAT hard to do.
Originally posted by: beer
IIRC Dissapate supports the ($100,000,000,000+) Iraq war but is compaining about less than a thousanth of a percent of that as an incentive for fairly worthwhile govenment research? Who's priorities are out of whack, eh?
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: beer
IIRC Dissapate supports the ($100,000,000,000+) Iraq war but is compaining about less than a thousanth of a percent of that as an incentive for fairly worthwhile govenment research? Who's priorities are out of whack, eh?
WTF? Where did you get that from? I've been saying from the get go American troops should be pulled out of every country.
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Originally posted by: beer
Originally posted by: CanOWorms
There are already vehicles that have traveled all the way across the country on interstates by themselves. So I'd think that eventually they'd get this done, too.
Link?? I call shens.
Do a search on Google for Dr. Takeo Kanade from Carnegie-Mellon Univ and check out his research and Navlab (I think that's what the van was called). It's been out there for a while, I think there was even a dateline or 20/20 type TV report on it.
People were in the van just in case, but it drove across the country 99% of the time.
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Wow, another great use of U.S. tax dollars.
These are all privately funded teams competing in the race, genius.
The $1 million prize is provied by DARPA a government agency, genius.
If the government tried to develop the vehicle them selves, it would cost them more then a million, genius.
What makes you think the government needs to develop this, genius? All of this money is better off in private hands, the market can decide the optimum amount to put towards R&D projects.
Originally posted by: beer
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: beer
IIRC Dissapate supports the ($100,000,000,000+) Iraq war but is compaining about less than a thousanth of a percent of that as an incentive for fairly worthwhile govenment research? Who's priorities are out of whack, eh?
WTF? Where did you get that from? I've been saying from the get go American troops should be pulled out of every country.
I posted it and then searched the threads and wasn't able to collaborate it. So I edited it out. I could have sworn but I probably made a mistake between you and some other grinch icon
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
if you'd like to put this $1 million prize into context, consider that a single tomahawk cruise missile costs about $1 million.
about 300 fired into iraq over the past year.
ka-boom.
Originally posted by: Falloutboy525
Originally posted by: OS
i don't get it, in the day of GPS and cruise missiles, this doesn't seem THAT hard to do.
actually an autonomous aircraft is a hell of a lot easier. not many obsticals in the air.
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Wow, another great use of U.S. tax dollars.
These are all privately funded teams competing in the race, genius.
The $1 million prize is provied by DARPA a government agency, genius.
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Wow, another great use of U.S. tax dollars.
These are all privately funded teams competing in the race, genius.
The $1 million prize is provied by DARPA a government agency, genius.
They fund projects that came up with stupid stuff like RADAR and the Internet.
Keynesian economics has been debunked, read above. My uncle got money from DARPA for one of his projects (he is a physicist) because no other investor would invest in his project. I can tell you right now from first hand experience my uncle is NOT the kind of person who should have received this money. He has good ideas, is a good physicist, but his ego is the size of the universe, he does not work well with others and just sucks at managing a company.
DARPA shut off his funds, but he should have NEVER gotten any money in the first place. The private sector had already decided it wasn't worth it the government should have followed suit.