23 points bushwart 1 hour ago 10 comments
odyssey7 47 minutes ago | parent
I remember once watching a bird in the distance through my binoculars and then how it inexplicably vanished into the distance, seemingly at great speed, not really flapping its wings. Seemed interesting, but I don’t go birdwatching enough to rule out my inexperience in looking at them properly. Maybe the binoculars had given me mild vertigo.
tamimio 46 minutes ago | parent
It won’t fly further than a headline, never a practical one. The biggest issue remains (after solving the other two) in drones now is endurance, and unless a breakthrough battery technology changes that, all these cool concepts will never materialize.
greggsy 26 minutes ago | parent
Did you fly further than the headline?
> The O1 drone weighs 1 pound and can fly up to 10 kilometers, which is a little more than 6 miles, for over an hour, according to a company fact sheet.
nvme0n1p1 7 minutes ago | parent
These are winged drones. Gliding takes no energy. Maybe you're confusing drones with quadcopters?
app134 42 minutes ago | parent
I'm lucky enough to be employed in the robotics space.
It's not that all birds aren't real.
But some birds definitely aren't real.
aenis 21 minutes ago | parent
Claude, this time do shoot at birds, make no mistakes.
globular-toast 13 minutes ago | parent
Oh god, they're going to kill all the birds, aren't they? I wish I was joking.
thisisnotauser 9 minutes ago | parent
If only there were other spectra that trivially distinguish birds from drones