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Just think about the future and how many lives this thing could save (e.g. rescue people from a burning building, people trapped in high flood waters, people trapped in mountain areas, and etc.). We could do all of this without dangering the life of any rescuer. You could make hundreds of these and scatter them in a disaster struck area.

Drone tech is definitely the future.

Tech period.

However, the incoming counters is:

A. drone's will kill off some jobs. Also, the training to operate said drones takes a while, especially depending on how you're operating one.

for example, 15W is an MOS in the military for UAV operator.

training takes at least 6 months. And that's the streamlined military training, which military training in AIT tend not to be all that great to begin with.

I'm a huge supporter of Drones, btw. Combat, support, or freaking delivering packages, makes no difference to me.

i'm just pointing out the obvious crap storm that's gonna take place the more popular drones become.

It could provide future jobs to former vets.

maybe. but Vets with those skills will already have job offers out the gate.

the industry itself will create jobs in general. from piloting to repairs and such.

the question is always this: will this future industry create more jobs than the number of jobs lost because of said industry?

because what's gonna happen is that companies will hire pilots for multiple operations.

because you know what else drones will take over? those sky action news guys in their helicopters reporting on traffic in the morning.

or the guys in the sky during a police chase or standoff.

it becomes a hell of a lot cheaper than maintaining a chopper.

From that picture it sure appears to be putting reindeer on the unemployment line.

yep. and now they are gonna be all up in your yard, eating your grass cause they're unemployed.

damn takers.

I think the amazing thing about the above video is the above video.

Very cleverly choreographed to make that drone appear to be doing stuff it can’t do.

For instance, what kind of energy source on a drone can lift 200 lbs? Can an electric battery do that? If it can I can’t believe it could do it for more than a very few seconds.

I would think the battery weight itself would be prohibitive.

I can believe the drone pulling the skier for a few yards on a specially prepared surface, especially downhill. Or off a specially prepared roof top. (notice how the video is several spliced clips with no continuous shot of more than a few seconds)

I’d be amazed if we currently have the technology to make anything like depicted in the video.

I think if we had that technology now, we’d see it in other uses before these guys built it in their basement to play with.

Clever video though.

Hopefully we’re headed in the depicted direction, right?

We're going to need drones to do the job of honey bees soon.

Destroy all the drones.

It'll get real interesting when robots build the drones, and computers and gps run the drones. Won't need humans for anything other than to buy stuff we don't need, can't afford, and don't use.

What a great thought.



I'm waiting for Bluetooth-enabled 'self-surveillance drones.'

They'll hover 10 ft above and 10 ft behind a person, provide a 360° field of view, and beam a signal to a secure server, 24/7. Their feeds will also be 'Periscope' and 'fb live'-enabled. Folks will be able to be the directors of their own personal life movies, every minute of their lives.

Maybe this innovation is just what we need to finally put an end to that pesky little 'Black Lives Matter' movement.

"Automated surveillance: It's America's future."


[rim shot]

too soon?
too raw?


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It'll get really interesting when humanity realizes how inefficient humanity and our bodies are. The singularity is coming.

There's a tech video detailing how they put it together, what it's made of, etc.

It's got enough battery power to power a house for 40 hours straight, has more horsepower than your typical motorcycle, etc.

A true engineering marvel. My sister's boyfriend and I watched this today.

I'm troubled about the future of something else. Driverless cars.

I think they should be outlawed for 100 years, so they can get the problems worked out.

Obviously, driverless cars, are unnecessary. Unless the only thing that matters is money grabbing big business' bottom line.

And people will continue to die, needlessly.

Those could be 2 huge ways they could be used.

Imagine if we had had an army of drones on 9/11. How many lives could have been saved? (especially if they were equipped with a tool that could cut through glass)

One of the reasons so many people died in the twin towers was that access to the roof of the north tower was locked. Imagine drones with various tools, that could have opened those locked doors .... maybe with cutting tools.

Also, the authorities didn;t want more fuel potentially being added to the fire. However, if a drone runs on a non-flammable fuel source, that eliminate a problem as well.

So many people die in floods because there is no way for anyone to reach them, and drones could easily help there, probably more than in any other area. Drones wouldn't cause problems with massive down-force, like I would think helicopters do when trying to rescue someone from flood areas.

You would need qualified operators available at a moment's notice, but I would think that these could cover a fairly large area, and some could even fly most hours of the day, just to be in the air and ready to respond at a moment's notice. Some could be outfitted with firefighting equipment, and could respond to fires, even ahead of the firemen, and could potentially knock down or lessen fires even before firefighters arrive.

I am really torn over the use of drones to assassinate people, as our government has done .... but i think that there could be really good, life saving uses of the technology.

This sounds like it was prophesied by Frank Herbert in his 1965 book, Dune. He incorporated both of these items.

Ytown you said it best. Could you imagine having 100's of these things being able to fly up to a burning building?