Quote? What is your favorite quote?

[Bravo52]

As for ourselves, let's bring everyone home and leave Iraq a better place for us having been there.

Our business now is north.

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins - Eve of Battle speech given to the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment Battle Group prior to ascending into Iraq.

 

[jqavins]

Well that’s not true, remember the V2 or V1?

Which built on, and corrupted, earlier work on rocketry and jet propulsion.

 

[NTP2]

Which built on, and corrupted, earlier work on rocketry and jet propulsion.

I’m not aware of any control systems, those were invented specifically for the V1 and V2. The gyroscopes and all the.

Ps there was a little bit of work during WW1 but that wasn’t autonomous. It was basically a big RC plane.

 

[Antares JS]

I’m not aware of any control systems, those were invented specifically for the V1 and V2. The gyroscopes and all the.

Robert Goddard did that first.

 

[NTP2]

Robert Goddard did that first.

Really? He could get them to go from A to B?

 

[Antares JS]

Really? He could get them to go from A to B?

I don't know if he ever tried to land them in a specific place, but Goddard was the first to stabilize a rocket with a gyro.

 

[NTP2]

I don't know if he ever tried to land them in a specific place, but Goddard was the first to stabilize a rocket with a gyro.

Well that’s pretty easy, that is what gyros do, I meant that the V1 was the first autonomous weapon. I think that he could have done what the Germans did but the US military had little or no interest in his work.

 

[kuririn]

 

[kuririn]

 

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Me like it. I would expect nothing less from the writer of “As I lay dying”.

 

[Cape Byron]

 

[KenECoyote]

I love animals...especially with the right gravy!

 

[Peartree]

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.” - Hugh Keough

 

[kuririn]

From Trust The Science.