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Re:New Electric Drone Has Groundbreaking Flight Time by Nydhal on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:45PM (#18003048)
While true, groundbreaking should usually mean "order(s) of magnitude" improvement.

It would have been more adequate if, say, the drone could last a day. Which would roughly be a 10x improvement.

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Re:New Electric Drone Has Groundbreaking Flight Time by xbmcuser on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:59PM (#18003101)
Doubling flight time is a huge improvement and could be considered groundbreaking as usually you get incremental improvements of 10-15% a year because of improving battery tech.
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