A little opinion piece written by a twelve-year-old appeared in the local paper recently. The student believes that drones will serve many purposes and reported on a Facebook drone, called Aquila, designed to bring the internet to remote places. The Latin word aquila meaning “eagle,” is a nice name because the drone was being designed to fly high in the sky from where it could have an eagle’s eye view of the world below. Aquila is also a constellation, representing the bird of Zeus/Jupiter.
Google also was investing in an internet-access drone company called Titan, also rooted in classical mythology, as the twelve Titans were the race of gods that preceded and then produced the Olympian gods.
Google also was investing in an internet-access drone company called Titan, also rooted in classical mythology, as the twelve Titans were the race of gods that preceded and then produced the Olympian gods.
A little more research yielded information that both programs were being discontinued, as of a few months ago, but it is always fun to discover ancient classical names for cutting-edge technology.
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