Palmer Luckey has a VTOL kamakaze drone startup. The video demos look impressive but it remains to be seen how effective they are in the field.

That being said, I'd rather we focus on peaceful endeavors that improve our quality of life, instead of on destroying things. That's a billionaire managerial class game, IMO. Make people dependent on the system so pleasing the managerial class becomes more important to survival. If history isba guide, this system will only last as long as the imperial order remains intact. There are many long term domestic & geopolitical pressures on the imperium & I would not be surprised if it collapses within my lifetime.

>The videos look impressive

Where are these videos?

If you watch the video, at the end they show a road runner. I was bracing myself for the poor little guy to get blasted to atoms. Spoiler: road runner survived.

I work in the opposite field of weapons but from the moment I saw zipline I thought their quick launching and distance was interesting. Maybe this is already how drones are launched in places like Ukraine, I don't know. I do understand that the road runner is probably much faster and able to intercept jets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbRVNxL44c

I'm not really looking forward to drone warfare, tbh.

I wonder what the collapse looks like.

history has wonderful guides but unfortunately none of them have “split the atom” in them

yeah...also has a single country/group of countries have had such a big market, so many dependencies the rest of the world relies on and the some of the only major population growth rates? Would a collapse of this kind of a system even be possible? I guess anything is possible.