Engage the Defect Radar! Space Age AI Technology in Our Underground Sewer Networks

By Greg Baird

In the 1998 blockbuster movie, “Armageddon,” when two advanced space shuttles slingshot around the moon at 22,500 miles per hours to land on the global killer asteroid, the pilots see the asteroids debris field and using the FOD (foreign object debris) radar, exclaim “Engaging Evasive Radar!” As the radar scans the horizon, incoming debris is identified, put in a “bounding box” and “auto-coded” in order for the space shuttle to maneuver around the potential collision threat.