Hey - wouldn't it be possible to make some sort of drone excluding device for the airplanes ? Like a grill or screen or maybe like a bass~o~matic or drone juicer ?
And - if you do it and get filthy rich, can I have a cut ?
Fred Robel et al...
Imagine the headlines - First Flight Around the World by Plane Powered Entirely by Free Range Wild Caught Drones !
We've got some built in bass-o-matics already, in the form of the turbine engines. If we could just funnel the drones into them. That'd be the trick.
ReplyDeleteted kelly You've provoked some thoughts in me. And this is going to be a TLDR; though reading it through would be interesting.;-)
ReplyDeleteIn 2004/2005 I thought I could make my way by writing fiction - esp. Sci-Fi. I attempted a short (not so short) story in a Tamil mag 'Kalki'.
And an A4 sized Sci-Fi in a Guardian.uk competition themed Yule·tide* (2005/06)
The Tamil shorter was abt an au-pair (boy n girl) out to take care of a boy in one of Jupiter's moon - Ganymede.
In that, ppl at 15 yrs are 'shorn' of head hair, implanted with solarcells, and implanted in their left eye with a sort of HUD (Google Glass?),
with realtime access to the central CPU - through cellphone like setup (4G?).
The boy gets lost, wanders out of the living sphere, and the cartaking girl uses 'search - go - find' to locate the missing boy after hours of fretting. The 'hours of fretting' is because the au-pair BF is busy d/ling movies, hogging the bandwidth (Net Neutrality?)
Point to remember that in 2004/05 WiFi was demonstrated as a 'proof of concept' or 'technology demonstrator' in Spain.
Too bad it wasn't published, or otherwise, I could claim some money on Google Maps, Google Glass and bio-metric implants. :-(
*About Guardian.uk short story. When I started to blog, I put it up for free reading. A real short, in true 'Asimov' mischief, just like ''The Last Question' - I titled it 'An Apple Falls', later renamed it to 'Fruit of Labour'.
Do read it, it is sure to bring a smile (even if a wry one). And tell me, really, could you have guessed the end, till the last 2 or 3 paragraphs?
/edit/ forgot to add the link:
https://sites.google.com/site/madmadrasi/fruit-of-labour
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Max Madrasi i did smile a bit and no, I didn't have a clue. Not until the name Adam was spelled out Do you like that sort of thing ? I used to participate in a flash fiction community. I might even consider entering this.
ReplyDeletehttp://thesarahawards.com/very-very-short-short-stories-contest
BTW - nice photos, Do you still have the model railroad ? I'm sort of in a community for that stuff. I don't have one up and running these days, but maybe one day...
ReplyDeleteI normally set up a limited railroad during the Navrathri celebrations (sep/oct). Those photos are of my bro's who is in PR, USA. We are actually searching for a good website name like ntrains.com (which BTW is 'premium' & costs $12k+). Hopefully this weekend we would get that blog site going, with all the photos and videos. Amazing what he had done for that bobby (in time, effort and money). :-)
ReplyDeleteInteresting thought. Maybe guided bottle rockets even ?
ReplyDeletekamikaze drones on planes. Once you spot them, launch the plane's kamikaze and take them down.
ReplyDeleteAirlines can make some money too, if they provide for video feed and interested passengers to try their hand.
The IDF already has their Iron Drone project right ???
ReplyDeleteted kelly Iron Drone or Iron Dome? ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt was a joke.
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