In the very mild defense of this application, in a natural disaster situation, communications often are interrupted. Not GPS, though.

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I remember playing black ops 2 a long time ago and when a friend of mine played, he always used the drone swarm killstreak.

I remember him laughing once about how the map we were on barely had cover from them.

I told him he won't be laughing when it's us trying to run from a drone swarm in 20 years for stealing a rich cunt's clean water.

Then we laughed at just how ridiculous that sounded.

Ha, they'd never do that...

btw, Have you noticed camo netting has gotten crazy expensive? Must just be inflation

I'm surprised there hasn't been casual assassinations outside of war zones with them yet.

There is this YouTube short movie about a future like that. The tiny drone just flies into someone's face with a small explosion to kill them.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

We'll see these kinds of things in the next war. Russia and Ukraine would be there already if they had time to stockpile the drones rather than needing to deploy them as fast as they can be manufactured.

With a few years of peace to build a reserve, there will more than enough drones and cheap spring-assisted launchers to serve as a terrifying new arm of MAD.

The only way we can fight back is in tunnels. None of us know how to build tunnels.

Well those wedding parties aren't going to drone bomb themselves!

As a mechanical engineer it was horrifically saddening when I got a chance to talk with the smartest, highest achieving engineer in our cohort, ask him where he wanted to go when he graduated and he shrugged and said "I dunno, Raytheon or Boeing? Whatever pays the most haha."

I like to think I have a strong sense of moral justice, but let's be real, if licking boot had a significant chance of paying off my debts, I'd do it and not lose much sleep about it.

The best time to start trap/skeet and get good at it was years ago. The second best time is now.

This is why we should be teaching the humanities to engineers from the beginning. We should be questioning what value these things can bring and how said tech can be used to do the opposite. Don't just focus on the technical achievement, a flex of ego driven technique.

I'm not saying, don't do something because it might have blow back but you have to weigh up the cost-benefit ratio.

Recently there was a demo of a drone that spins in place so that it looks like a faint smudge rather than, well a drone. Their justification was that it could be used to do wildlife watching without interference with the animals... almost everyone else saw this as a near invisible bomb.

Every day I see something new that makes me realize that there are too many in that field that do not think about these issues until it is too late. That they do not realize or do not care that their work will be leveraged into the next hell on earth until it is too late.

Alas this is nothing new, Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

So, they hired some naive children to develop this SAD thing? Because otherwise, they might have a conscience to stop this shit.

Armed is not what you think it means. Its referring to the motors. Typically when you go to take off you have to arm the drone before you can use the motors. You press a button on your radio and then can lift off.

Target locked is 100% what it means though.

Jesus fucking christ, I had to go look cause I thought you were just being funny. Nope, clipped straight from the image itself wtf

Your comment illustrates the difference between sci-fi and fantasy.

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Oh now that is a good film idea!

As it has ever been. Radar. GPS. Digital imagery. Friggin microwave ovens. All military-first inventions.

I read an interesting article that said our current scifi dystopia trajectory is more along the lines of Philip K. Dick than Asimov or Huxley. If you haven't seen screamers you might want to check it out. Basically there's a war between a megacorporation and a union of scientists, so the scientists invent autonomous drones that kill everything with a heart beat and of course the drones become sentient.

Isn't this from Terminator: sarah Connor chronicles?

What future generations?

we need a community helping to build SkyNet

Ever watch that show Man tracker? It'll be like that but with flying shaped charges

i have a ton of practice playing baseball with manhacks from hl:alyx and hl2vr, i'm ready.

FWIW, I have met recruiters for drone companies who talk up their “search and rescue” as if their startup is funded exclusively by the Red Cross.

Spoiler Alert: their founder was quoted saying that he wants to use drones to taser migrants crossing the border.

The original poster maybe, but looking this up myself the first article I see has this quote.

Search and rescue teams, filmmakers, and defense planners all share a common challenge: GPS coverage degrades precisely in the dense, complex environments where autonomous navigation matters most.

That's probably part of what they're referring to. Part of it probably linked to an article like this Yahoo article I'm looking at that mentions Search and Rescue.