30,000 drones will be spying on you within 10 years.

[Harrekin]

Its max takeoff weight is 2250 pounds, so about one Imperial ton. The wingspan bests an F16's though. cn

<edit> What's wrong with this picture? ~grin~

It's got no wings and it's going really fast?

 

[cannabineer]

Got it in one! A Mach skirt around a vehicle with a top speed of 135 mph. cn

 

[Harrekin]

Got it in one! A Mach skirt around a vehicle with a top speed of 135 mph. cn

I'm more freaked out at the flying without wings part tbh.

 

[cannabineer]

At those speeds, that reservoir tip provides all sorts of lift. One can tell that it was Photoshopped onto something with short swept wings. cn

 

[ginjawarrior]

Got it in one! A Mach skirt around a vehicle with a top speed of 135 mph. cn

those ones are prop driven arent they?

 

[cannabineer]

those ones are prop driven arent they?

Pusher props at that. If I were a billionaire, one of my pet projects would be to try to break the sound barrier using propellers. The TU-95 Bear has supersonic blade tips. cn

 

[polyarcturus]

lol i doesnt not have wings.... IT IS A WING!

 

[Harrekin]

lol i doesnt not have wings.... IT IS A WING!

Did you dribble on your keyboard typing that? Im only keeding with chu.

 

[Cut.Throat.]

You're not the sharpest tool in the shed... are you?

Sharper than you'll ever be.

 

[Harrekin]

Sharper than you'll ever be.

Weak comeback is weak.

 

[Canna Sylvan]

That's your pipe-dream. It's very cheap. These drone are not much more expensive than the model airplane drones, I make. Opensource software on Arduino processor, cheap camera and I'm spying in your back yard. I'm working up a helicopter right now. GPS auto route management, pan/tilt/zoom.

It's here. Get over it. We can all have drones. My car needs a drone launcher on top to survey the traffic. That mosquito is a hoax but they do have hummingbird size now that can carry an a couple of ounces of C4.

And they can actually wire a cockroach to carry a camera and move away from the mentally induced irritants you use as controls.

So, if you think the USA will default, you don't understand macro-economics. We are not only the largest economy. At roughly $15 Trillion per year, it is the size of the next 3 combined, at $5 T, each. We are too big to fail at this point. The world economy would crash and we would still pick profit. China is seeing the writing on the wall, about now, as well.

Did a little research, and the mosquito is supposed to be "in production." And I found an article about a guy that snapped a picture of a dragonfly drone in his back yard.

http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/15/advanced-dragonfly-like-drones-and-black-helicopters-spy-on-chicago-citizen/

This is about micro-battle drones.

http://sciencepicks.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/robotic-insects-spy-drones-of-the-future/

They now make an Arduino smaller than a mosquito? Cool.

 

[canndo]

I call BS. That thing looks like a model-basher's movie prop. cn

Agreed - this looks like bullshit - that battery couldn't deliver enough energy to lift iteself for any length of time, I see nothing driving the wings and I don't see any intelligence at all, something it would have to have to fly in a stable state. I doubt it is in production except as some sort of jewlery.

 

[BadDog40]

Yay Obama!

police state

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noun a nation in which the police, especially a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.

Its not the feds that are doing this, its the locals, such as this asswipe nazi republican governor from Virginia.


Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) said Tuesday that he supports the use of military-style drones to help local police monitor the commonwealth, saying that their deployment would be “the right thing to do.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76859.html#ixzz1yGpG0FUd
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[canndo]

I get a HUGE kick out of the right complaining about drones - seems it was a rather rightist court that opened the door toward this sort of activity. What is most disconcerting to me however is the fact that both of the Court's findings that entitled the law to overfly at low levels are cases pertaining directly to marijuana. It is a sad thing that many MANY incursions into our liberty and privacy are a direct result of a combination of conserative courts and....marijuana. Seems this plant, while enabling certain emotional freedoms seems to often be used to curtail our funamental rights.


Florida v. Riley
California V. Ciraolo

 

[chrishydro]

66 trillion hardware cost, just so you know if we dont stop spending the way we are now in 2016 the debt will be 20 trillion. With that said I dont think any idiot would suggest we add another 66 trillion to that number to spy on naked people in their back yards. Just saying.

 

[RawBudzski]

I don't think they will use those bugs for every days use.

Too big a risk/loss when it goes bad.

Large gust of wind = gg.
Hungry Bird = gg
Spider webs = gg
Fly swatter = gg

 

[canndo]

They also run afoul of U.S. constitutional law - the moment they enter a private building without a warrent.

 

[Harrekin]

Its not the feds that are doing this, its the locals, such as this asswipe nazi republican governor from Virginia.


Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) said Tuesday that he supports the use of military-style drones to help local police monitor the commonwealth, saying that their deployment would be &#8220;the right thing to do.&#8221;

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76859.html#ixzz1yGpG0FUd
​

Thread Godwin'd.

 

[JustAnotherHead]

If a liberal designed this drone it would be a paper airplane with a webcam scotch-taped to it.

 

[ctwalrus]

well... im pretty scared about these mosquito drones tbh...
so i bought a magnet.