Imminent Rise of the Robot Helicopter Machines!
"With all due respect to truckers, cargo pilots and other professional haulers, transporting goods across vast distances is looking more and more like a waste of our species' time, opposable thumbs and easily bored brains." Popular Mechanics says unmanned aerial vehicles like the Snowgoose Bravo, made by the Canadian company Mmist, should be deployed right away to carry our stuff for us. (You know the guys in Mmist's AV department were pissed when they couldn't get the rights to "Lunatic Fringe" for that video, right?) But, really, wouldn't we just use our opposable thumbs and easily bored brains to tie the robot helicopters to our penises? Also reported in PM: the fact that the Department of Defense has mandated that a third of all military vehicles be autonomous by 2015 and the opinion that, "That's not soon enough." I say, that's probably far too soon, and definitely terrifying!
couldn't you just shoot this thing down with a crossbow and steal all the ipads inside??
Because you know, they have a killer 4G network in Somalia.
I thought we were giving all those kids pcs with the cranks
Who's the DJ?
That was pretty terrifying until the volleyball net there at the end.
Quick, someone get me the Treasure Hunters Roadshow… I have an idea.
I hope there is some sort of department of defense 3D graphics awards show with lots of tangerine dream and non-ironic beards.
the fact that the Department of Defense has mandated that a third of all military vehicles be autonomous by 2015 and the opinion that, "That's not soon enough." I say, that's probably far too soon, and definitely terrifying!
Yes, but Dave! Don't you see how this dovetails neatly with the current epidemic of soft-skinned/raised on corn by-product/proficient-in the-video-game-arts generational crop of youngs that are coming of age? They'll be able to join the army and they won't even have to leave mom-and-dad's basement. DOD is simply gaming the new paradigms!
Too true.
Orson Scott Card was right.
The army of the future
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Hey Popular Mechanics, waste your easily bored brain on this: "transporting goods over vast distances" actually does not happen in the air so much, but on the water. When it does happen in the air, it takes much more fuel and warms much more globe per unit of cargo than on a ship.
So yeah, put it all on toy helicopters.
Sedan chairs are the future of cargo transport.