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Re:Ask HN: Why can't wildfires be stopped small? on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:30AM (#24504348)
It would have to be done by an automated drone firefighting systems. ... Wildfires cannot wait for offices to open
Re:Ask HN: Why can't wildfires be stopped small? on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:27AM (#24504323)
They should have banned campfires and open grill cooking in known fire-prone areas, during fire-risk seasons. System design WILL require determination of 1] Smallest satellite-detectable fire sizes; 2] Size of fire-stopper bombs needed for various fire sizes; 3] system processing times for fire location, size, direction detection; 4] system response time to launch firefighting drone/s; 5] drone travel time. ... These delays can be estimated right now, and then established empirically in a short time. ... Fire-prone areas are probably known already. These system response time estimates, verified by trials, will determine how many drones / drone-stations will be needed

Ask HN: Why can't wildfires be stopped small?

hy can't this be implemented immediately: Detect a wildfire / bushfire almost as soon as the first sparks occur. My understanding is that satellites that can do this are already in place. It should not be too difficult to apply this available realtime data to stopping fires very quickly after they are detected, while they are very small. Automatically generate alerts and trigger launch of...

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Ask HN: Why can't we prevent wildfires / bushfires?

Re the annually recurring wildfires near west coast of USA and Canada, and the bushfires near the east coast of Auatralia: Why can't this be implemented immediately: Satellites keep constant watch on fire-prone areas. Detect a wildfire / bushfire almost as soon as the first sparks occur. Automatically generate alerts ... and trigger launch of firefighting aircraft (choppers, drones) to douse a...

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Why can't we prevent wildfires / bushfires?

Why can't we prevent wildfires / bushfires?The annually recurring wildfires near west coast of USA and Canada, and the bushfires near the east coast of Auatralia. Why can't this be implemented immediately: Satellites keep constant watch on fire-prone areas. Detect a wildfire / bushfire almost as soon as the first sparks occur. Automatically generate alerts ... and trigger launch of...

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Ask Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison ... Interesting that a guy with your background would even need to think about going to a college ...
Re:How do we end the divisive mindset? on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:04AM (#13876575)
I think the question really is: can the tech community come up with do-able ideas that can a) reach the population at large, b) use crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to identify and tag/mark fake news and unfounded opinions c) possibly use blockchain for tagging/marking crowd-classified news....So that fake news, divisive propaganda, trolling, etc. are quickly identified and indelibly marked as such....This will not entirely solve the problem (artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity), but it should contribute towards reducing its effects