Dude!! This is wicked sweet! MIT undergrads made tiny satellites, about the size and shape of a volleyball and sent them into space. The satellites, called SPHERES, will be dummys for developing multi-satellite manuevering software. Damn, that’s some hardcore stuff.

I wish I could work on sweet robot projects like that. I’m takin’ an Artificial Intelligence class next semester, but we’re definitely not going to do anything cool like that. We’ll probably just mess around with the oversized coffee can that the CS department has now. GRRR!

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