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Icarus Robotics is a startup with at least six million dollars in funding so far. the idea is to train robots on human workers to make space mass production... work. or something.
anyway i don't see any red flags
Obvious grift company aside, take a guess what the Greek air force officially calls their flying officers.
Although to be fair being deliberately morbid is a definitely a thing in the military, and the writing on their logo is doric greek for "We'll do better".
Coincidentally, I was passing Brasilia airport yesterday, and there's a company called "Icarus Aviation". Which I thought was a ... bold ... choice of name.
I guess the real innovation we might hope from a company like this is that they make robots that don't break, even when they fall from LEO. 🤣
Their favourite part of the Story Of Icarus was when Icarus jumped in the IcarusMobile and shouted "It's Icarussin' Time" and then sped away in a cloud of smoke
Oh this is good.
@sc_griffith the only thing I still believe is that we'll have Kessler's Syndrome by the end of the decade.
The good thing about the elon musk internet sats is that they are too low to easily cause Kessler's, they burn up in the higher atmos.
The bad thing is that they are made of a lot of aluminum and at that altitude it makes climate change a lot worse.
So you do not have to worry about Kessler's syndrome. As we are gonna burn.
@Soyweiser thanks, that's reassuring!
Don't worry, the acausalrobotgod will save us from everything.
@sc_griffith Using "Icarus" for a space company just shows that the founders don't have a basic knowledge of mythology.
I'm just waiting for it to fly too high and then crash and burn.
I mean, Perseus is right there for dudes who want to be manly space cowboy kinglets.
@o7___o7 Or Daedalus, the one that didn't melt their wings. Though TBH they'd probably mangle the pronunciation.
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what a name choice
just fucking stunningly naked grift, incredible
Pissonus Robotics
Cow Tools
Spoiler ahead for B5: And then Icarus will discover a strange dark ship.
And we'll get the second worst film
Ha, that is the same name the sun energy system has in the Peter Watts Blindsight series.
It eventually falls into the sun.
