![]() It’s similar to controlling a generic, store-bought quadcopter-except you’re going close to Mach 1. It’s so easy to use that I can fly 10 of these at once. You can even switch to a first-person view as if you’re sitting right there in the cockpit, even though the Mako doesn’t have one. Every turn the jet makes, your drone makes. I can command a Mako to trail the jet’s wing at whatever distance I want, and it will stay right there. ![]() A pop-up window asks how closely you want to tail. With our tablet, you have a top-down view of the drone on the map, you click and hold it, and then just drag an arrow icon toward the jet you want to follow. You have your little character, you click it to go somewhere, and then it automatically navigates to get there. I wanted it to be like playing StarCraft, or one of those strategy games on an iPad. I’m a gamer, so I took what I hated about the first interface we built and I made it fun. ![]() Since my first flight in 2015, we’ve changed the software a lot. When it came time for them to pick an operator, I was kind of the last one standing. We wanted to build it for use with a simplified interface so any enlisted soldier could fly one without the expensive pilot training you need for most unmanned aerial vehicles.Įven though I was on the software team and I’m not a pilot, I was the one who spent hundreds of hours in the simulator. I was on the Mako design team at Kratos, which is a military UAV-maker. They can fly around 700 mph, almost the speed of sound, and you control them from a special tablet. Air Force fighter jets on missions, kind of like robotic wingmen. Who else can say they’ve had to figure out how an eclipse would affect our electricity? But it’s still a once-in-a-lifetime event. Gas-fired generators had no problem making up for the missing solar. What we actually saw was a big drop in power usage, probably due to the no-sun decline in temperature-less AC use-and the fact that everyone shut down whatever they were doing to go outside. We worried that people flocking in to see it would clog up the roads and keep us from responding to problems, or that all the livestreaming would bog down the cellular channels we use to acquire data from the field. So we knew we’d see some kind of impact as the 2017 total eclipse darkened our sky. On your average August day, about 6 percent of the power generation we oversee in the Carolinas comes from solar. ↑ Sammy Roberts, Director, System Operations, Duke Energy “Who else can say they’ve had to figure out how an eclipse would affect our electricity?” It was a good reminder of how quickly things can change when you’re on top-literally in a flash. To me, accidents like these seem even more shocking in the animal world. He was struck by lightning while lying in his nest. Then one day I got word from my team that Rukina was dead, but not at the hand of another silverback. Rukina ruled for 11 years, attracting new members, and we all thought he would lead the band for several more. The struggle between them lasted for three years-until Rukina grew strong enough to beat Zeus in a fight. Leaders decide where the group forages and get to mate with the females, so there’s a lot of competition. In 2001, the young male challenged his leader, Zeus, for control. One of the most memorable involved an ape called Rukina. ↑ Martha Robbins, Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropologyīig fights between gorillas don’t happen that often in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, but when they do, it’s all about what we call dominance turnovers-changes in power. ![]() “It was a good reminder of how quickly things can change when you’re on top.” I hate to say I’ve “fallen in love” with lifting, but it did take the pressure off everything I used to worry about concerning my body and food. You’re building and growing in places where it’s natural for you to get stronger, and you feel it quickly. The mechanics of a dead lift or a squat are designed to use your body’s strongest muscles in the most effective possible motion-the motions you need to navigate everyday life. You just feel powerful, even as someone who’s not that coordinated or athletically skilled. Picking up groceries, reaching to grab something, or even going up stairs-it’s all effortless. Powerlifting changed my most basic interactions with the world. But the more important narrative isn’t how my looks have changed, it’s about becoming stronger. Lots of women get into lifting just to lose body fat, and others are afraid to try it because they think it will make them look bulky. When I’m telling the story of how I became a lifting evangelist, the aesthetic changes I had hoped for-and achieved-come up a lot. ![]()
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