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Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by adventured »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #15
eigenvector wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may be hunted down and shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10992502

It would probably violate multiple international treaties, but I know I'd be willing to pay $50 or so per shot, if the drone had an onboard weapon that could be aimed over IP. That would do some good in the world, and would be pretty exciting as well. For safety, targeting could be supervised, and approval to fire issued or withheld, by the company selling the camera time. It's something that should probably be licen…

It would be "pretty exciting" to kill humans rather than arrest them and bring them to justice?

I don't think there's anything you could ever say to justify that position. It gives me the impression that you're a maniac.

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by JabavuAdams »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #15
eigenvector wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may be hunted down and shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10992502

It would probably violate multiple international treaties, but I know I'd be willing to pay $50 or so per shot, if the drone had an onboard weapon that could be aimed over IP. That would do some good in the world, and would be pretty exciting as well. For safety, targeting could be supervised, and approval to fire issued or withheld, by the company selling the camera time. It's something that should probably be licen…

That's pretty vicious.

If we want to make a less violent world, we need less violent people. Will you add yourself to the target list?

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by pmorici »

guelo wrote: post #14

The USAF's and CIA's use of drones in the Middle East has sparked the imagination across all kinds of projects such as this one. But the reality is that military-style drones that can stay aloft for days are extremely expensive to purchase and to operate. The well-known Predator drone, for example, costs $4 million per airplane, and it requires a classified global satellite network, an uplink station manned with thre…

The government isn't exactly known for procuring things at an economical price or designing for efficiency. I mean just look at the cost difference between a space shuttle launch vs SpaceX.

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by josscrowcroft »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #15
eigenvector wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may be hunted down and shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10992502

It would probably violate multiple international treaties, but I know I'd be willing to pay $50 or so per shot, if the drone had an onboard weapon that could be aimed over IP. That would do some good in the world, and would be pretty exciting as well. For safety, targeting could be supervised, and approval to fire issued or withheld, by the company selling the camera time. It's something that should probably be licen…

Eye for an eye and the whole world will go blind, buddy

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by podperson »

pmorici wrote: post #23
guelo wrote: post #14

The USAF's and CIA's use of drones in the Middle East has sparked the imagination across all kinds of projects such as this one. But the reality is that military-style drones that can stay aloft for days are extremely expensive to purchase and to operate. The well-known Predator drone, for example, costs $4 million per airplane, and it requires a classified global satellite network, an uplink station manned with thre…

The government isn't exactly known for procuring things at an economical price or designing for efficiency. I mean just look at the cost difference between a space shuttle launch vs SpaceX.

SpaceX's 2010 technology sure kicks NASA's 1975 technology's butt. Look, I love Elon Musk and SpaceX as much as the next guy but probably most of the cost advantage has to do with improved technology (especially materials science).

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by btilly »

podperson wrote: post #25
pmorici wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The government isn't exactly known for procuring things at an economical price or designing for efficiency. I mean just look at the cost difference between a space shuttle launch vs SpaceX.

SpaceX's 2010 technology sure kicks NASA's 1975 technology's butt. Look, I love Elon Musk and SpaceX as much as the next guy but probably most of the cost advantage has to do with improved technology (especially materials science).

According to Elon Musk the biggest single difference is the economic incentives of fixed priced bids (SpaceX) versus cost+ bids (traditional aerospace).

With traditional NASA bidding procedures there are very few to no incentives to contains costs. Military procurement has the same issue, combined with stringent requirements that preclude off the shelf for virtually anything. (Off the shelf is not, of course, an option for SpaceX. But if it was, they would likely consider it!)

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by htf »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #15
eigenvector wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may be hunted down and shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10992502

It would probably violate multiple international treaties, but I know I'd be willing to pay $50 or so per shot, if the drone had an onboard weapon that could be aimed over IP. That would do some good in the world, and would be pretty exciting as well. For safety, targeting could be supervised, and approval to fire issued or withheld, by the company selling the camera time. It's something that should probably be licen…

That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor people just trying to survive. The world is rarely that simple.

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by hnriot »

htf wrote: post #27
CamperBob2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would probably violate multiple international treaties, but I know I'd be willing to pay $50 or so per shot, if the drone had an onboard weapon that could be aimed over IP. That would do some good in the world, and would be pretty exciting as well. For safety, targeting could be supervised, and approval to fire issued or withheld, by the company selling the camera time. It's something that should probably be licen…

That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor people just trying to survive. The world is rarely that simple.

Yes but there's six billion of our species and very few rhino left. You could wipe out all the world's poachers and it be a rounding error on human population. While I don't think advocating killing anyone is a good idea, I have no sympathy for poachers.

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by denom »

hnriot wrote: post #28
htf wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's easy to say for someone living in a rich country. Before you advocate the murder of poachers, remember that they are most quite likely not evil, but rather ordinary poor people just trying to survive. The world is rarely that simple.

Yes but there's six billion of our species and very few rhino left. You could wipe out all the world's poachers and it be a rounding error on human population. While I don't think advocating killing anyone is a good idea, I have no sympathy for poachers.

What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.

Re: Google Pays for Drones To Bust African Rhino Poachers

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Post by tedunangst »

denom wrote: post #29
hnriot wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but there's six billion of our species and very few rhino left. You could wipe out all the world's poachers and it be a rounding error on human population. While I don't think advocating killing anyone is a good idea, I have no sympathy for poachers.

What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.

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