The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV

Re:The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV by daveFNbuck on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:35AM (#19200171)

You'd have to go back before humans to find a time before facial recognition was used to track individuals, yet people get upset about when facial recognition is used to automatically track and record all of your movements through ubiquitous cameras.

There's a big difference between a person going up in a balloons for a few hour to scout a military locations and a swarm of drones constantly monitoring a city in peacetime.

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Re:The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV by Mtinie on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @01:02PM (#19201158)

I was not making a judgement about whether or not there's a difference between a single balloon and a drone swarm (there is), but addressing the comment:

> And also, in typical neo-luddite fashion, I'm fearful for the surveillance applications of this device. Even if staying airborne isn't eventually completely free (eternal flight) with this system, the ability to stay up for 9 hours at a time on a few Li-Ion cells opens up a world of possibilities, not all of which are great.

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Re:The Tethered Uni-Rotor Network: Eternal Flight UAV by daveFNbuck on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @03:43PM (#19202583)

It looks a lot like you were saying these are similar. I'm not sure what else your comment could mean. What was your intended meaning?

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