That's kind of the 21st century evolution of this[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuJGhe4oGw
I've done some pretty crazy things with a chainsaw but that has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
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Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
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Here's a video of the helicopter chainsaw http://youtu.be/Mfz1YrpMbBg
Wow very different. Mine had no cable or a very short one - the chainsaw was directly under the helicopter.
They also used one of those in a James Bond movie. Goldeneye, I believe.
Edit. It was in The World is Not Enough, as someone else noted.
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#53This should be illegal everywhere. I'm really afraid of the not too distant future when drones are cheap and autonomous enough so that they are able to be controlled by a small crazy group and used to harm lots of people. I don't think we as a society are prepared for it.
I seriously want to start a drone defense company.
Disney are apparently using drones to combat paparazzi drones when filming Star Wars VIII: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/drones-are-patrolling-...
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#54As someone who has personally used a chainsaw for many years I saw that video with interest but realized quickly it's faked. It takes a substantial amount of force on a chainsaw to keep it cutting. A real chain saw is a relatively heavy device. I see no evidence in that video that the chainsaw is in fact cutting anything while only under the forces afforded by the drone. Every cutting shot is from closeup and I did n…
That is a pretty substantial drone they are using - it looks like the kind that can carry RED ONE cameras, which are about the same weight as the light weight chainsaw they used in the video. Regarding the amount of force required to cut things: they are only cutting snow and small tree branches. I think you are being overly paranoid here.
Red One with lens was about 13-15 lbs although I don't remember a Red One used on an octocopter. Red Epics were out by then which brought the weight down to under 10lbs.
Chain saws without blades are around 10 lbs?
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#55the perfect weapon for the next zombie video game
Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
#56As someone who has personally used a chainsaw for many years I saw that video with interest but realized quickly it's faked. It takes a substantial amount of force on a chainsaw to keep it cutting. A real chain saw is a relatively heavy device. I see no evidence in that video that the chainsaw is in fact cutting anything while only under the forces afforded by the drone. Every cutting shot is from closeup and I did n…
I believe they were using a DJI industrial, which as a takeoff weight of 11kg, which is more than enough power to carry a small chainsaw.
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Cool, so we'll just continue pirating your content and bypassing your filters at record levels then :-)
That's actually a most generous and humane service you provide the world. Seriously.
I don't know if I agree with the pirating business (I don't do this) but certainly I don't think it's unethical to bypass geoblocking which I find borderline racist - and definitely greedy in the worst sense of the word.
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If you're also in Australia, popsci.com has some idiotic redirects to popsci.com.au that throw errors when they can't find a localised version of the article you're trying to reach. I don't think I've ever had one actually work.
Seriously, this deserves an automatic penalty until they fix their issues. Business Insider do the same thing. What's to localise though? We speak English! dang... if you're reading this, anything you can do? Very frustrating for the many Australians who read articles on HN. (a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens? We are a pretty wealthy nation filled with people…
From what I can tell, the redirects are all on popsci's side. It's pathetic. It's like they're saying the science is different country by country...