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0 pointsantpls7y ago0 comments

> I fail to see what this has to do with anything?

If the Pentagon was going to partner with Google to develop drones, maybe it means the talented people required to develop such tech simply don't want to work in the military field, but they exist elsewhere working on others projects. Money can solve all the material problems, but if people still don't want to work toward autonomous jet fighters or killing machines, then it can explains why it doesn't exist at all.

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nradov7y ago· 2 in thread

Boeing, General Atomics, and Lockheed Martin probably have more talented people in that domain. Google doesn't have any sort of special capabilities.

antplsOP7y ago

Today's systems, such as planes or engines, are so complex that the only way to achieve today's level of efficiency is to use numerical simulations, aka Computer aided designs. Google excels at organizing information, processing big data and getting answers with predictive models, they do it better than anyone else and it can be potentially applied to just about any field.

nradov7y ago

I haven't seen any evidence that Google is better at computational fluid dynamics than the large aerospace companies. This is just silly fanboyism with no basis in reality.

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