Businesses care about ROI. Hackers do things that are cool. This is cool.
A car drives a vertical wall, launches itself off, and catches itself with thrusters. That's awesome.
If you read my remarks again, you would realize I'm embarrassed for you. I'm embarrassed for a forum that should be about curiosity and wonder, where can we go, and what can the future be -- not earnings per share.
They applied for a patent before they even attempted powered flight.
That's not to diminish their desire to build something cool, but they were thinking about how to monetize it from the start.