Damn couldn't they be used for mesh internet in cities?
Pigeons with Rucksacks Measure London's Air Quality
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#12Get your website in check. Using that much of my CPU on idle is ridiculous. https://s3.amazonaws.com/coda-files/2016-03-14_12-33-55.png
Same here. AFAIK the page seems to be constantly updating itself even when idle.
Not much impact on my CPU in Firefox (+5% or so), but it's using 60% of my GPU/graphics card....
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#14They cant spell dioxide, and theyre not measuring pm2.5 theres a site at heathrow that does measure pm2.5 http://www.heathrowairwatch.org.uk/data/graphs
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#15In Lima they have vultures looking out for illegal rubbish dumps. [1] Is the use of animal "volunteers" the natural next step for the sharing economy? [1] http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jan/29/drowning-rubbi...
It's a great workaround for bans on quadrocopters.
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#16Cutesy copy written from pigeon perspective: "So don’t worry, we love flying, we’re pigeons after all." But serious copy about needing bicyclists as beta testers -- is the pigeon deal a publicity stunt, or a real situation?
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#17Tiny pigeon backpacks! Cute!
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#18Tiny pigeon backpacks! Cute!
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#20They cant spell dioxide, and theyre not measuring pm2.5 theres a site at heathrow that does measure pm2.5 http://www.heathrowairwatch.org.uk/data/graphs
Particulates are usually at larger concentration at ground level; not sure if using variable-height sampling would make sense there.