Re: Drone Technology
Reply #75 –
I reckon it all depends on who is using the drone and what it's being used for.
Belfrager sounds terrified about these things, seems the only purpose he can think of is military or mass murder. Maybe it's not that bad.
Amazon had the idea of using drones to deliver small packages. It would have to be small because the drones they were/are using don't have that great a lifting capacity.
Someone has suggested that drones could be used in search and rescue work. A drone could locate a lost hiker, and that can cut down dramatically on the manpower that needs to be expended in a large forest, for example.
Much of the field work in improving drones will be in the hobby sector, as inventive minds set to work making these things lift things they probably shouldn't be lifting, and getting precision flying down so you can play games with it.
I'm not too concerned with the military coming up with drones the size of a mosquito. The Pentagon mind doesn't work that way. They'll come up with a drone the size of a B-52 that can lift an Abrams tank-- but the idea of mosquitoes carrying ebola virus--- nope, generals can't get their heads around an idea like that one. They want something big that costs a lot of money, not something that won't be noticed by the folks back home who have to be talked into financing the next boondoggle.
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