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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

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dang wrote: post #28
dfc wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks! It's a pain, but I think we can eventually (semi-)automate it.

It would be neat to see if the frequency of changes diminishes over time. I would be willing to bet that the notifications of link change provide some form of user education and exposes potential link submitters to the rules.

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

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Post by PavlovsCat »

primitivesuave wrote: post #7

Maybe a drone that can deliver caviar to the Sheikh's 180 meter yacht when he runs out of caviar?

In the words of the great visionary Bill Hicks:

"See, everyone got boners over the technology, and it was pretty incredible. Watching missiles fly down air vents, pretty unbelievable. But couldn’t we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people? Know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, ‘There’s a guy that needs a banana!’ SHOOP. The Stealth Banana. Smart fruit!"

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Post by owenversteeg »

Theodores wrote: post #21

"All semi-finalists of the International competition will receive $5,000 USD to develop and improve their prototype." Realistically, that means a consumer grade drone. (So no grand ideas for re-purposing one of those drones that can fly from an island in the Indian Ocean, loiter for a few hours and then, under the guidance of some teenager in Florida, send a missile into some wedding party in the tribal areas of Paki…

If you're really good, only hover in place and have zero payload, you can get 90 minute flight times. (Which, I believe, is the record for enthusiast electric multicopters.) My guess for payload of an electric multicopter would be up to 5 kg, but the tradeoff is flight times in the single digits of minutes.

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

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Post by dang »

dfc wrote: post #41
dang wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! It's a pain, but I think we can eventually (semi-)automate it.

It would be neat to see if the frequency of changes diminishes over time. I would be willing to bet that the notifications of link change provide some form of user education and exposes potential link submitters to the rules.

I've wondered about that too.
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