It’s not stupid if it works.
Maxim 43 If it’s stupid and it works, It’s still stupide ans you’re lucky.
That’s one of these reddit phrases i’ll never understand. Things can work and be very stupid.
This is something tradesmen have said for a very long time. I think the original meaning has been lost online.
“It’s not stupid if it works” is basically a tacit admission that something stupid is happening, we all agree that it’s stupid, and we also kind of all know that there is a better way, but for some reason we’re not doing that.
Usually it feels like the stupid thing we’re about to do is the best option available to us.
As a trademan, an addition: it’s usally used in a situation that needed a quick fix, and only needs to hold together for a short period. Usally this the short period gets extended because “it’s still working”.
Maybe more like this: „If it works as intended, an unconventional approach is justified.“
It’s not that the first one is completely impossible, but we’re not quite there yet technologically. And even if we could build the first one, the second one would probably be less than a 1000th of the price to make.
Even if it’s not completely impossible, it would be completely useless. What would be the point of rotary chain guns on a drone? Assuming the thing had enough lifting capacity to carry the barrels, there isn’t enough space in that thing to carry enough ammo to fire for more than a second.
I was assuming they’d be some kind of laser weapon or something
You’d kinda run into the same issue either way, you’d either have not enough ammo or not enough battery storage. Plus, there isn’t really a reason to have rotary barrels on something like a laser. They would theoretically be more of a sustained fire kind of weapon.
