Why Drones Were Invented
High above a mountainous desert pass, a predator drone silently stalks its prey from the safety of the clouds, waiting for the signal to unleash its payload
Somewhere in Texas, a Ranger launches a drone from the local high-school football field. It whirrs upwards, heading for preset coordinates to keep an eye on nefarious activity in the bad part of town.
It's 3pm on a Tuesday. Jimmy dumps his backpack in a corner near the door and heads for his room. He reaches under the bed and pulls out the quadracopter he got for his birthday. He sets it flying out the window and mercilessly buzzes his sister while she tries to play dolls on the porch with her friend .
In a nondescript building at the edge of a prestigious university campus is an electronics lab. The supervising professor carefully monitors an array of screens while his PhD student, wired to a powerful laptop by an assortment of colorful cables, controls a drone with his thoughts.
In a meeting room in the headquarters of a major online retail/technology company a programmer, logistics expert and a business mogul cover a whiteboard with crooked arrows, badly drawn squares, and semi-legible writing. They are close to perfecting a system for automatic drone deliveries.
At exactly midday on a frozen lake in Wisconsin, Dave reaches into a container. To his horror, he discovers that he and his buddy, Jake, have already finished the six-pack of beer. Jake is unconcerned as he uses his smart-phone to log-in to Lakemaid. He sends his GPS coordinates and waits for an octacopter to make its way over the ice with six fresh bottles of his favorite beer...At least, that's what would have happened had the FAA not nixed the only real reason for ever having invented the drone.
Somewhere in Texas, a Ranger launches a drone from the local high-school football field. It whirrs upwards, heading for preset coordinates to keep an eye on nefarious activity in the bad part of town.
It's 3pm on a Tuesday. Jimmy dumps his backpack in a corner near the door and heads for his room. He reaches under the bed and pulls out the quadracopter he got for his birthday. He sets it flying out the window and mercilessly buzzes his sister while she tries to play dolls on the porch with her friend .
In a nondescript building at the edge of a prestigious university campus is an electronics lab. The supervising professor carefully monitors an array of screens while his PhD student, wired to a powerful laptop by an assortment of colorful cables, controls a drone with his thoughts.
In a meeting room in the headquarters of a major online retail/technology company a programmer, logistics expert and a business mogul cover a whiteboard with crooked arrows, badly drawn squares, and semi-legible writing. They are close to perfecting a system for automatic drone deliveries.
At exactly midday on a frozen lake in Wisconsin, Dave reaches into a container. To his horror, he discovers that he and his buddy, Jake, have already finished the six-pack of beer. Jake is unconcerned as he uses his smart-phone to log-in to Lakemaid. He sends his GPS coordinates and waits for an octacopter to make its way over the ice with six fresh bottles of his favorite beer...At least, that's what would have happened had the FAA not nixed the only real reason for ever having invented the drone.
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