What Did the Rocket and the Drone Do About Poor Water Quality?

They Launched a Clean-Up Mission!

Micah Tinklepaugh
7 min readSep 1, 2024
Ben Koorengevel

Yesterday I purchased a Drone Certification course that would help me learn how to seek FAA approval to fly a drone. I did this because I’m also getting my pilot’s license in case NASA ever interviews me for the astronaut application I submitted. But I’m also wondering if I might have better luck building the rocket myself, which is part of the reason I’m studing Nuclear and Aerospace Engineering. I digress.

A quick internet search revealed some drone’s I could buy that would get me going to sell my services.

But then I remembered my engineering law class I am in and how will intentioned people can sometimes make mistakes which lead to litigation. So I googled ‘why you shouldn’t buy a drone’ and found this really compelling article:

www.petapixel.com/2023/07/27/it-just-isnt-worth-the-effort-to-put-a-drone-in-the-air-anymore/

The author brought up so many good challenges to my thinking that I thought, solving their…

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Micah Tinklepaugh

I design products for people and systems. I also like to swim, bike, and run.