Comments on: Hermeus designed, built, and tested Chimera in 21 months for $18 million https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:15:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Pseudo-Chrysostom https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3592947 Pseudo-Chrysostom Thu, 02 Mar 2023 04:16:45 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49682#comment-3592947 Sure it could help solve the world’s greatest problems: hypersonic drones dropping belated birthday presents down the chimneys of all the spiritual crabs trying to keep humans from climbing out of the bucket of our earthly imprisonment.

]]> By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3589343 Michael van der Riet Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:12:42 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49682#comment-3589343 The press release was going so well right up to the last sentence: “Hypersonic aircraft have the potential to create trillions of dollars of new global economic growth per year, unlocking significant resources that can be utilized to solve the world’s greatest problems.”

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3589072 Jim Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:33:51 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49682#comment-3589072 Kidding aside, I have high hopes for the future of airborne craft.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3589068 Jim Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:17:45 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49682#comment-3589068 This is all very impressive—and I mean that sincerely—but the question that everyone is asking is whether Hermeus Corporation, a State of Delaware corporation recipient of over one hundred million dollars from Sam Altman of OpenAI, Founder’s Fund of Peter Thiel, and In-Q-Tel of CIA (but I repeat myself), has the proper representation of Black Africans, Indians, Indians, and Colored Persons (BAIICP) on payroll generally and especially in positions of command, as determined by the good corporate proctors of the United States Department of Justice. As a patriotic American and steadfast defender of the Constitution I have no doubt whatsoever that the United States Air Force and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in fact far superior by all the most important metrics. After all, he who seeks equity must do equity.

]]> By: Freddo https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3589025 Freddo Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:25:43 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49682#comment-3589025 If you’d bothered to read the linked article you would have noticed they are doing this in a partnership with the US (Air Force/NASA). And the test was in a fixed ground based installation, presumably than an actual flying platform.

To be honest, normally I would be in the peanut gallery throwing with the best of them. But compare what SpaceX is doing vs NASA SLS, and my reaction is slowly shifting to “cool, show me more of that”.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2023/02/hermeus-designed-built-and-tested-chimera-in-21-months-for-18-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3588938 Bob Sykes Sun, 12 Feb 2023 14:18:59 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49682#comment-3588938 And the US, after a decade of work, still can’t do this? I am going to label these claims BS.

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