Enter The 2013 Popular Science Invention Awards

"This is what we can do to prevent massacres of innocent children......"

beyond9-

Guns are not the problem. Hundreds of thousands of children die each year from malaria. Most of these deaths could be prevented by use of safe, effective pesticides like DDT. But the global environmental left-wing have prevented it.

how to prevent a god chunk of gun crimes, a trigger lock is a manditory sale with every firearm.

firearms license applications need to ask if ANYONE in the home has had a recent divorce, affair or history of mental illness of any kind in the last 5 years as it does on the Canadian application, (though then the american health care system would have to get their act together... pfft)

anyone purchasing a 2nd or more than their first firearm, along with the trigger lock must either purchase, show receipt of purchase or make appointment to have a certificate given from local law enforcement after having a quick 5 minute verification that they own a GUN SAFE that can accomidate a given maximum of firearms, this maximum would be written on a biometric firarms license card to be carried in their wallets next to their drivers license.

.. photo ID license to drive a car .. manditory insurance incase you hurt somebody or damage somebody's property.

.. to buy (not even just operate.. but to buy and do as you see fit with) a gun you don't need any such thing... anything wrong with that? .. one i designed to take you and your family safely to work, school and the grocery store and then return you safely home after wards... THE OTHER IS DESIGNED TO KILL OTHER LIVING THINGS.

Arizona for instance makes it ILLEGAL to even register any firearm with the state.

.. all the USA needs to do to end the gun violence is pass an ammendment stating that firearms must be kept locked when not used, and securely fastened in holster(mounted on body or otherwise) and that it be the sellers' legally concequential responsibility to never sell any firearm without sufficient means to do so under penalty of federal law.

@beyond9
It's not about money being more valuable than children's lives, it's about freedom being valuable to a good life. You're not looking to restrict people making money off of something that someone, I assume you think it'll be you or someone with the same exact twisted beliefs, deems excessively violent or pervasive, you're looking to restrict the freedom of them to produce it and for me or anyone else to access it. You're looking to rob freedom away from me and any children you claim to want to protect because you somehow believe the scientifically disproven non sequitur that there is a causal relationship between entertainment media and active acts of violence among members of the society. Oh, and btw, you can look it up. Crime rates started declining rapidly twenty years ago(When video games first started becoming mainstream, fancy that.) and are at their lowest levels EVER. Explain that one.

If these things can CAUSE one to become violent and sociopathic, how exactly have you made it through the Internet to this website without watching or playing a violent video game, movie, show, or other entertainment media? Either you've never seen a violent video game, movie, or tv show, have and are now a homicidal maniac, or you've experienced these mediums miraculously unscathed from the psychological barrage and brainwashing that ensued. Please, if it's that last one, explain to us how you pulled it off because, if the threat is bad enough to warrant maiming freedom, it couldn't've just been the fact that you could tell the difference between fact and fiction and are sane. It definitely couldn't be that since most people are sane and can tell the difference between what's real and what isn't.

Beyond the fact that such inhibited freedom is disgusting and vile, I find it insulting that you think myself and other people are dumb enough and weak enough that we need your totalitarian rules to be enforced on us. I don't need a babysitter telling what I can and can't see or do. If you feel so feeble-minded that you can't keep from committing acts of violence because you saw someone get shot on tv, then you go ahead and stay away from those types of media and stay away from the general population, but leave everyone else out of it. I want no part in it.

Oh yeah, and while I do like the idea of ensuring gun owners have appropriate facilities to safely store their weapons and the idea of weapons recovery programs, any further limitations on the ownership of firearms goes against the point of the second amendment, which is that in the case of someone threatening the life of another, such as a school shooter but extending as far as our own government in the most extreme cases, as outlined by the founding fathers, citizens will have access to the means to defend themselves. If someone actually had a gun, as the second amendment allows, to protect themselves at Sandy Brook, there may have been a lot less dead bodies instead of the killer having no opposition while everyone waited for the guys with guns to drive over. We also can't forget the fact that someone who doesn't care about laws against homicide isn't going to care too much about your gun laws, so the only thing these tighter laws will do is make it less likely that a law-abiding citizen will have the means to defend themselves or others against an armed assailant.
Oh, and let's just take a minute to acknowledge the fact that school is hard enough without making children feel as if they're in prison with trained guards always present and watching their every move. There are a lot more productive things law enforcement officers can be doing, trust me. I went to a high school that, after having a bomb threat during both my freshman and then sophomore years, felt it was necessary to place armed state troopers wandering the halls every day, have dogs come in and sniff the building regularly, limit us to an individuality crushing dress code to avoid bullying over clothes, and no longer allowed boys to carry a bag for their books. Girls just used their purses, so I tried my own man purse and was promptly disciplined for wanting to avoid having my books knocked out of my hand while simultaneously making it easier to transport the books I was supposed to be learning from. Whatever happened to fostering optimistic, independent, and diverse young minds? Now, people like you just want kids to feel like a closely watched number and have a harder time focusing on any actual learning number because you're afraid and paranoid.

You also have no idea what you're talking about with NASA. NASA is incredibly important. Overpopulation of the planet is already becoming an issue and, naturally, as it worsens, the rate or reproduction increases. Children will someday be subject to war or systematic genocide due to a lack of resources and space. Someday, whether you like it or not, we either need to limit the population to levels about 66% of what they are now, begin bringing resources from space here, or colonizing hospitable extraterrestrial environments, man-made or otherwise. How are we supposed to do that without a space program, smartypants? That's just one thing NASA will do for us, beyond everything else they've already done. Even if it wasn't necessity in its purest form, NASA is cheap as hell compared to how much we spend on being better at killing people. It costs $1,000,000,000 more than NASA's ENTIRE budget JUST to provide air conditioning for TEMPORARY tents and housing in Iraq and Afghanistan. The total cost of keeping troops is about $20,000,000,000. That figure comes from Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Gen. Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq. NASA's TOTAL budget is just $19 billion. That's just for keeping troops cool, which is probably one of the cheapest things the military does. Lets not forget how much money we spend on developing and manufacturing military technology so that we can be better at killing. Don't take my word for it. Look it up. I'll get you started. Here's my source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/air-conditioning-military-cost-nasa_n_881828.html

Look, you don't seem like a bad person, but posting this vitriol numerous irrelevant posts, especially when it's this misguided, is wrong. Protecting kids is a fine and noble effort, but you need to think these things through and look at actual facts before you convince other uninformed people to believe the same ludicrous stuff that you're spouting here.

what I want is the story behind that cool looking copter with the counter-rotating rotors.

Newbeak5,
I agree with you. I am interested in the inventor? What are helicopters characteristics? Can I buy one and for how much? Is it hard to learn to fly it? Where am I allowed to fly it? Yea, I sure like to read the article about this helicopter at the top of this article! It looks very COOL!

@ beyond,
I feel for the parents who lost their children and the adults who are grieving for their loved ones. But you are an absolute twit pasting your comment onto every other article on Popsci.
Thousands have probably read it, nobody thought it has any merit, and the more often you repeat it the more people will think you are a moron. Now go and take your pills and leave us in peace.

how to prevent a god chunk of gun crimes, a trigger lock is a manditory sale with every firearm.

firearms license applications need to ask if ANYONE in the home has had a recent divorce, affair or history of mental illness of any kind in the last 5 years as it does on the Canadian application, (though then the american health care system would have to get their act together... pfft)

www.sadasoft.net/category/free-programs

Please tell me what that helicopter is. I can't find anything through Google with some relative effort. Anyone know about it?

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Almost all the comments above are either spam or off-topic. This message board needs a moderator, and some of these people need to be pointed to a better forum to display their messages.

For everyone who is curious about the image, and I am just guessing, it looks like a working prototype helicopter using the NorEaster engine featured in this article - http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-05/2012-invention-awards-simple-helicopter-engine

In the video if you skip to about 1:10 you can see him showing off a concept with two opposing rotors and a single rear propeller. The compact size of the helicopter suggests to me that it might fit the bill for such a prototype.

Just a guess though

Agreed, we need more on this fantastic looking helicopter.

All I know is that twin main rotor blades are paving the way, Having the tail rotor act as a pusher now allows for some incredible speeds for a chopper.

redman.ca, but what about all those poor people that don't have ID's? Aren't we discriminating against them then?

There is something in this world for everyone There was a fellow in Red Deer Alberta that made one like this but could not get any help from the Government so he went to Saskatoon Saskatchewan .Don't know what happen after that . His flew good and could take two people .Getting it licensed was costly

@ beyond9

Where did you get these ideas from?

Most of them don't make any sense, especially if you think guns are the problem, and putting female cops with high tech guns is going to help anyone.

coollew
We need to ban spoon's cause i'm fat!

very beautiful design.Good job.seems the main rotor has also anti rotation fan.If so it will make some lifting up and down in gh altitude.The rear anti movement controller design is also superb but in my opinion it will create vibration in craft during high speed fast turning.Pls check it.Best wishes.

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It's not the guns fault, and it's not malarias fault!

Guns are not the problem. Fricking idiots with guns are the problem. Eliminate the idiots and problem will be solved. You don't see the other millions of gun owners having a desire to kill and maim innocents do you? Instead of taking away freedoms, stop the attacks of the insanebefore it happens... If that is at all theoretically possible!

Second, stop the nonsense of the malaria and millions of kids and adults dying in Africa and wherever... Get over it. They all breed kids without the knowledge or the desire to stop, yet no desire or knowledge of ho to support them, let alone themselves. We can't play Mommy to all the worlds. Let's clean up America first, then and only then if we have time, look at who else we can help. And this means those who actually need it because of a disaster, not because they caused their own plight... If they caused their own problems, then there is this thing called "consequence"... end of rant...

I understand the emotional desire to get rid of guns, but more laws will only increase crime.

- First, there are more guns than people in America. You will never be able to get rid of them. 1920's Prohibition wasn't able to get rid of alcohol. Marijuanna, cocaine, heroine, etc. are illegal, and yet, somehow criminals always seem to have them (and drugs are consumable items requiring continuous replenishment of supply). ** Without guns, our college girls won't be able to defend themselves against a rapist; our elderly will be defenseless against home-invading thugs; I won't be able to defend my children against violent home invaders. The FBI estimates 800,000 - 2,500,000 crimes are stopped every year by civilians with guns. Ban guns and those 1 million people will be robbed, beaten, raped, etc.

- Second, let's say you magically make all guns disappear. Then what? A murderer goes into a school and kills 22 children with a knife. That's what happened in China the same week as the Sandy Hook murders. So, ban knives. Then a baseball bat is used. Ban bats. Then a strong thug beats up an elderly man. Ban people from getting strong. Etc... You see... violent people will find ways to be violent.

- The best to prevent crime is to make the an unsafe work environment for the criminals: make them afraid to attack us. Allow law-abiding citizens the God-given right to defend themselves.

- In England, although their GUN-crime is reportedly lower than ours, their VIOLENT CRIME rate is 4x's higher. Although you're less likely to be shot, you're 4x's more likely to get assaulted.

- Mexico has the strictest gun laws.. we know their crime rate is worse.

- Israel had bad school violence, so they armed willing teachers and school bus drivers with full automatic firearms. They have not had a mass murder since. It costs the country only a little training and some firearms.

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