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Re:How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Inte... by jimmyk on Monday January 31, 2011 @11:30AM (#2162044)
Well, in the United States at least, it is illegal to operate a drone unless you: A) have direct line of sight with the drone and B) can manually take over the drone at any time. This means you would need to have someone watching each drone unless you can successfully hide its operation from the government, which could be difficult since its mission is to relay electromagnetic signals back down to earth.
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Re:How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Inte... by imajes on Monday January 31, 2011 @11:34AM (#2162070)
good point, but i think the original intent is to transmit information if the government began to censor the net. Therefore, you can imagine _anything_ you do is going to inhibit the free flow of information, therefore you're just as sensible to go ahead and and run some nice drones. :)
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Re:How to Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Inte... by jasongullickson on Monday January 31, 2011 @12:05PM (#2162204)
Bingo.

There are multiple mission scenarios and our intention is to support as many as are practical.

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