Not enough coffee. Hit the submit button before I was through.

The Jedi project is an example of the type of “out of the box” thinking that makes military research and development so darn much fun. In civilian R&D, there can be no failures. In military research there seems to be an attitude of, well let’s look at this because if it works, it will be awesome and if it doesn’t work, we can be reasonably sure the bad guys won’t be using it against us. Young people who want to do really interesting research with real world contributions should seriously look at getting involved in engineering/hard science and working with the so called military/industrial complex after graduation. And where else do you get to design devices that blow things up, pack up your lab and go to the field, live in a tent, and blow things up. A civilian related job is never the same, ever.