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Kathy Baker

Joined:	Thu Apr 12th, 2012
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The future. So now if you build your own drone to follow your cat around the neighborhood I guess you will need permission from the government.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304331204577354331959335276.html

Robert

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Interesting Kathy, I suppose we will see them over here as well soon. Although with some exceptions our airspace is pretty crowded. We do have model helicopters with cameras on sale from toy shops. There are video's on You Tube.

Iain

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Robert wrote:
Interesting Kathy, I suppose we will see them over here as well soon. Although with some exceptions our airspace is pretty crowded. We do have model helicopters with cameras on sale from toy shops. There are video's on You Tube.
Yes, I've seen them advertised.

Doug

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creepy quadcopters

Can you imagine hundreds of these in the future at protests/events/pubs etc

Robert

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Wow!

That's amazing Doug.

Ray Ninness

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Cool stuff!!!!

They are already talking about deploying Drones here in the States, for what and where is not yet defined..

:hardhat:

Squarerigger

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Doug wrote:
creepy quadcopters

Can you imagine hundreds of these in the future at protests/events/pubs etc
A few of those get near and you'll be reaching the the fly swatter. :salute:

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Doug wrote:
creepy quadcopters

Can you imagine hundreds of these in the future at protests/events/pubs etc
Are you sure they dont use them already ?
;-)

wingnut

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I've no doubt we will all see them spying down on us in a few years.

steve of oxford

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wingnut wrote: I've no doubt we will all see them spying down on us in a few years.Easy brought down with a bit of lead, or possibly blinded with a 1W laser.

The way this could end up is with fighter drones, to hunt & destroy the enemy's drones.

At worst this technology might be a precursor to something rather ugly. At best and as it is at present an affront to privacy.

The one thing that disturbs me about drones is the potential for atrocity, the pilot is detached from the real world and that can't be a good thing. Throw in a bit of biological targeting & bob's your uncle.

Umm..."nope, not one of ours nothing to do with us"

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