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rspear5 t1_jcffjmy wrote
Reply to Open-source tool from MIT’s Senseable City Lab lets people check air quality, cheaply. by chrisdh79
Wish this had made the top during the east Palestine crash. Oh well, better now than never. Super excited about it though
Svenskensmat t1_jcfeyvy wrote
Reply to comment by soysssauce in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
I have a feeling drones will be banned very quickly once people realise the insane noise pollution that will follow.
TheChaosBug t1_jcfase1 wrote
Reply to comment by spooky_cicero in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
The military has an extreme motivation and a ton of liquidity in funding, of course its going to drive a ton of technology production and research, it has done so throughout all of human history even without a MIC economy.
JellyWaffles t1_jcfacvl wrote
Reply to comment by Skyhawk_Squawk in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
There have been some recent developments in propeller design that dramatically reduce noise btw. Toroidal blades I think it's called.
TheChaosBug t1_jcfab19 wrote
Reply to comment by Hawt_Dawg_II in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Military industrial complex
TRKlausss t1_jcf9pxx wrote
Reply to Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Yo dawg! I heard you liked drones, so I put a drone in your drone!
dandroid20xx t1_jcf9gmb wrote
Reply to comment by LilMoWithTheGimpyLeg in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
It's more space missions were a side effect of ICBM testing, most of the companies involved gained most of their expertise via nuclear missile programmes. The Chinese Long-March series of space launch vehicles is still based on an ICBM platform
Hawt_Dawg_II t1_jcf9gjy wrote
Reply to comment by spooky_cicero in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Idk what MIC means but the first computer was litterally an anti-air targetting system.
I know MIL-SPEC usually just means cheap and durable materials but you can't deny that war economy is one of the biggest driving factors behind a lot of technical development.
War created phones, gps, drones, and, as i said, computers in general.
Sure they don't always have the best but they usually did have the first.
Regumate t1_jcf9bbk wrote
Reply to comment by TheStupendusMan in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
I come from the net.
Through systems, peoples and cities to this place: Mainframe.
Hawt_Dawg_II t1_jcf93og wrote
Reply to comment by TheArmoredKitten in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
I mean i guess yeah, same way a schoolbus is just a light armoured personel carrier.
Flight is way faster than following traffic.
Dynamic targeting is necessary cause a lot of people don't have mailboxes that take packages and skipping those saves you having to develop some kind of tactile device to even use mailboxes in the first place(that would be even more difficult and scary for you, imagine if they could open doors😱).
UAVs were first developed for military use, you can draw paralels to that market from any drone, that doesn't suddenly make it scary.
There's way cheaper and more efficient ways to makes combat UAVs than first developing a whole civil version and then suddenly adopting it for other purposes. That's unnecessarily complicated.
seweso t1_jcf81b7 wrote
Reply to comment by Commercial-9751 in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
I suspect you need to 3d scan the surroundings and approve the place its gonna land. Consumers might even be made liable in case something was in the way.
This is WAY better than having a full sized drone trying to land.
But yeah, it might need some emergency release mechanism if it does get tangled. You don't want anyone be able to take down the big drone.
odlicen5 t1_jcf7xdz wrote
JUST MOUNT IT ON A SOLAR SAIL ALREADY
seweso t1_jcf7myh wrote
Reply to comment by pressedbread in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Trains are always gonna be more efficient. Just imagine a town with a cute small railway going to every house <3
spooky_cicero t1_jcf77ov wrote
Reply to comment by Hawt_Dawg_II in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
This is MIC brain poison, there’s no intrinsic reason that the military has to have the best tech
TheArmoredKitten t1_jcf74zd wrote
Reply to comment by Hawt_Dawg_II in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Ok, but this is literally a loitering cluster mission with individual bomblet targeting capacity. Why would you need a mail delivery system to be airborne with dynamic target selection capacity? Mail and packages are a pretty freaking heavy payload, and mailboxes are a well established and predictable receptacle.
If you wanted to automate mail delivery efficiently, you would just automate a mail truck. Maybe they didn't mean it, but this thing is literally meant to deploy munitions.
LookMaNoPride t1_jcf6prd wrote
Reply to comment by firstpostfirstpost in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Nah, just a short tube here and there. You put in your destination and you would travel like you’re a shirt in a t-shirt cannon. POOM
parkinthepark t1_jcf6mz1 wrote
Reply to Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Dropping packages into residential areas from 300 feet.
What could possibly go wrong?
rendrr t1_jcf6hf1 wrote
Reply to Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
If you setup drop zone in your backyard that would help with porch pirates.
On the other hand you now have a swarm of drones buzzing around watching you from above. I wonder it will end.
sterling_cocks t1_jcf5jus wrote
Reply to comment by Kor3nse in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
"Shit, if this is gonna be that kind of party, I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes"
pressedbread t1_jcf5irg wrote
Reply to comment by chilloutdamnit in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
How appropriate that his rocket ship is phallus shaped!
dtm85 t1_jcf514l wrote
Reply to Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Can't wait for the inevitable porch pirate thieving promotions to "drone fishermen" when they start ripping these things out of the sky and selling off the parts.
Zondartul t1_jcf4g3k wrote
Reply to Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
Yo Dawg, heard you like drones, so we put drones in yo drones so you can fly while you fly.
ponyrider666 t1_jcf43f8 wrote
Reply to Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
It’s like a beacon in the sky for porch Pirates.
Hawt_Dawg_II t1_jcf3wo1 wrote
Reply to comment by TheArmoredKitten in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
I mean you could say that about any precision guided system cause weapons were just the first ones to adopt that. You can't really make a good robot without using military tech.
firstpostfirstpost t1_jcfgyvs wrote
Reply to comment by LookMaNoPride in Zipline’s new drones release tethered mini-drones for precision package deliveries - These drone deliveries drop down from up to 300 feet high in a tethered ‘droid’ with its own propellers to target small landing zones like a table. by speckz
The joke ☄️