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The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

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Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

#12

Post by Justsignedup »

"Wife hunter" it's a drone / iphone app that lets the drone scour the city for another potential wife of the Sheikh. It will then stalk the girl, and send a notification to the Sheikh which if he so choses will both tranquilize her and dispatch his private attack fleet to airlift her to his 180 meter yacht where they will both be served caviar and arranged marriage contracts.

Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

#13

Post by dang »

Justsignedup wrote: post #12

"Wife hunter" it's a drone / iphone app that lets the drone scour the city for another potential wife of the Sheikh. It will then stalk the girl, and send a notification to the Sheikh which if he so choses will both tranquilize her and dispatch his private attack fleet to airlift her to his 180 meter yacht where they will both be served caviar and arranged marriage contracts.

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Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

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Post by bri3d »

There's no mention anywhere on the page, as far as I can tell, of what happens to your IP.

The second stage of the contest requires showing extremely detailed plans to a "panel of judges from around the world."

Even though the goal of the project is indeed noble, I don't see anyone but students entering without an explanation of how the IP works. A working setup for a drone with globally applicable humanitarian mission is worth a lot more than a million dollars.

Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

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Post by zenbowman »

dang wrote: post #13
Justsignedup wrote: post #12

"Wife hunter" it's a drone / iphone app that lets the drone scour the city for another potential wife of the Sheikh. It will then stalk the girl, and send a notification to the Sheikh which if he so choses will both tranquilize her and dispatch his private attack fleet to airlift her to his 180 meter yacht where they will both be served caviar and arranged marriage contracts.

Please re-read the HN guidelines. Comments like this should not be posted here.

Agreed, moreover the UAE is pretty forward-looking relative to the rest of its region, and minority and womens rights are much better protected there than in most countries in the Gulf. Propagating stereotypes about the behavior of the royal family does nothing to help the cause.

Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

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Post by Theodores »

gorydetails wrote: post #10

As sea levels rise due to the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet[0], we could fly drones to survey the flooding of cities and coastal areas. That would be a fantastic use of oil wealth. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/science/earth/collapse-of-...

The satellites we have been using for the last few decades can accurately measure sea surface temperature and create nice visible wavelength pictures.

The old ones did 1Km resolution looking straight down from their polar orbits, ample resolution when you have something the size of Greenland, and I am sure the resolution has improved considerably since then. You also get several passes a day over a given location, day or night.

I dare say that this application is pretty well covered and the batteries of that drone in Antarctica (or Greenland) would have a hard job keeping up.

There is also the problem of registering whatever data you get to align with a map. Imagery from a normal plane is not that easy, given the flight characteristics of a drone I suspect that it is quite hard to get the imagery to line up even if you can fly from A to B in a straight line with GPS.

Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

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Post by dfc »

dang wrote: post #14

We changed the url from http://www.dronehire.org/blog/uae-government-announce-one-mi... , which was lifted from this one. Submitters: HN prefers original sources. When there's an obvious one, please post it instead.

I imagine that it is a pain to add these addendums whenever you change the title. For what it is worth I am extremely grateful of the effort. It takes some of the confusion out of things and most importantly it gets everything out in the open.

Re: The United Arab Emirates “Drones for Good” Award

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Post by hiphopyo »

bri3d wrote: post #15

There's no mention anywhere on the page, as far as I can tell, of what happens to your IP. The second stage of the contest requires showing extremely detailed plans to a "panel of judges from around the world." Even though the goal of the project is indeed noble, I don't see anyone but students entering without an explanation of how the IP works. A working setup for a drone with globally applicable humanitarian missi…

Reminds me of one of those "business plan contests", where in the end, whether you win or lose, they run off with your idea.
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