Posts by Jan Eric Andersson

Boffins produce aerobatic copycat-copter pilotware

Not really news, is it?

This is typically how welding and painting robots in the automotive industry have been programmed for years - a human craftsman does it manually first, and then the robot copies the maneuver.

European manned spaceflight plan proposed

@Jeff Rowse

>Who was it said "I always knew I'd see the first man on the moon. I just didn't expect to see the last, too."

Jerry Pournelle, I believe.

Car crash driver blames pterodactyl

@Sam

You may be thinking of the 1983 movie WarGames, in which John Wood's character flies a model Pterodactyl in one of the scenes.