I designed flight controllers to detect pitot static probe failure under a military contract. That tech would have saved Air France 447.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
but this shouldn't be a defence of the military, why was it develop under a military and not a civilian contract?
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Replying to @transfaerie
For many reasons, the most simple being that the most advanced aerospace research labs in the world are attached to USAF or NASA.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I hope you don't think I'm trying to fight you. I know there is a complex system and history involved, I'm saying it's time this stopped.
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Replying to @transfaerie @EmilyGorcenski
I've been on the other side of this argument, I've never worked for the military, but I've defended researchers who had, I can't anymore.
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not defending them going forward is not the same as retroactively debasing what they did under the only way they could.
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