NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight

[hunter]

17. Every human is born a scientist.

Curiosity and experimentation are natural human traits.

But certain cultures can't handle that. They beat it out of their children.

Autonomous flying opens up many new avenues for exploration, here on earth and on other planets.

We can't know what will come of these technologies, good or bad, but we can choose the good, and discard the bad.

I think this is a good one.

I'd rather pay taxes for this than a football stadium or aircraft carrier.

When I first signed onto the internet, in the late 'seventies, it was still a subsidized "toy" of interest to academics and the defense industry.

Look at the internet now...

I'm a radical environmentalist and some kind of bleeding heart liberal socialist who supports steeply progressive taxation.

I like this little helicopter.