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Apparently Texans are again thinking like the Chinese:

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This $19,000 gun is currently used by the Wuhan police to shut off drones that are up to one kilometer away. These were put to the test on March 11, 2017, when officers noticed drones trespassing near a soccer stadium during a game.

Just to clarify, these aren’t REAL guns. All they do is disable drones in mid-flight, forcing them to land immediately.
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These are currently handheld devices being operated and controlled on the scene by live persons. I foresee these becoming either remotely operated or even autonimous devices capable of detecting, targeting, tracking, and disabling drones on specific flightpaths. And they will be deployed not just at specific events or locations, but to cover various "no drone zones" up to and including entire cities.
 
Chuck said:
These are currently handheld devices being operated and controlled on the scene by live persons. I foresee these becoming either remotely operated or even autonimous devices capable of detecting, targeting, tracking, and disabling drones on specific flightpaths. And they will be deployed not just at specific events or locations, but to cover various "no drone zones" up to and including entire cities.
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Most of us won't have to sweat this. They will tell us where they don't want us flying, and we'll fly somewhere else. I'm thinking anywhere they would think to (and spend the money to) deploy this kind of technology is somewhere the responsible majority wouldn't be flying in any case. It's amazing how many convoluted situations can be easily solved by common sense.
 
Rick M said:
Most of us won't have to sweat this. They will tell us where they don't want us flying, and we'll fly somewhere else. I'm thinking anywhere they would think to (and spend the money to) deploy this kind of technology is somewhere the responsible majority wouldn't be flying in any case. It's amazing how many convoluted situations can be easily solved by common sense.
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That's the problem. The ones either failing to or refusing to apply common sense, screwing it up for the rest of us....
 
Chuck said:
That's the problem. The ones either failing to or refusing to apply common sense, screwing it up for the rest of us....
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Yep. Every time I come across rules that seem odd, the first thing I think is "I wonder what kind of stupid party trick someone played to get this rule put in place".
 
I read in our paper yesterday that some MP here in UK is lobbying to keep cannabis illegal ,meanwhile her husband has ten acres of it growing for medical.
Your telling me the same not happening with this industry.
 
KentA said:
This $19,000 gun is currently used by the Wuhan police to shut off drones that are up to one kilometer away.
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:eek: ... That's a hefty price for a gun a lot like the one I built as a kid almost 40 years ago !
Damn, I should've marketed the device and could've been rich by now .... oh yeah, there weren't drones back then :p
 
mozquito1 said:
What did you shoot then?
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Just nuked stuff at a distance :D

KentA said:
You should have invented the drone
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LMAO ... Yeah, Quads didn't exist yet, I was flying RC airplanes and Helicopters back then. There weren't even any decent gyros
at the time that weren't large and expensive. You don't know what fun is until you've tried keeping a Heli stable without any gyros
on board. The radios were a huge investment (Futaba was about the best and only thing anyone serious would use) and you almost
needed a second mortgage on your house to acquire all the equipment that you can get today for just a few hundred bucks. ;)
 
Gyro Doctor said:
Just nuked stuff at a distance :D


LMAO ... Yeah, Quads didn't exist yet, I was flying RC airplanes and Helicopters back then. There weren't even any decent gyros
at the time that weren't large and expensive. You don't know what fun is until you've tried keeping a Heli stable without any gyros
on board. The radios were a huge investment (Futaba was about the best and only thing anyone serious would use) and you almost
needed a second mortgage on your house to acquire all the equipment that you can get today for just a few hundred bucks. ;)
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That's the story of progress. As technology improves, it becomes cheaper per unit, and more widely available. Anybody still paying $3,000.00 US for a pocket cslculator, that you can buy now for $5.00 US?
 
Chuck said:
That's the story of progress. As technology improves, it becomes cheaper per unit, and more widely available. Anybody still paying $3,000.00 US for a pocket cslculator, that you can buy now for $5.00 US?
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Exactly true.... Back in 1972, when I decided that electronics would be my choice of career, I had no idea that it would eventually get to
the point where stuff would just be thrown away and replaced instead of being repaired. I had thought that as technology improved and
things became more complex that there'd be a growing demand for people to fix them. :confused:

In '74 my physics teacher was so proud of his new calculator, it could not only perform basic math but also had a "percent key" AND and
"inverse function" (whew boy, fancy shmancy) and it cost him $120. By '76 I had a Texas Instruments SR-50 that would do all that plus
Trig, Hyperbolic, and Logarithmic functions as well as Scientific Notation and had more Greek letters on it than anyone but an Engineer
would ever even need to know about ... lol ... I think I paid maybe $80 bucks for that. Nowadays you can get all that for the price of a
lunch at McDonalds. :p
 
Chuck said:
Anybody still paying $3,000.00 US for a pocket cslculator, that you can buy now for $5.00 US?
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A guy I work with uses one of those RPN HP calculator apps on his $3K Mac - but I think he gets more out of it than just the calculator :D

It does amuse me that he is using 2018 technology to time travel back to 1990. I started laughing the first time he used it in an online meeting.
At first he thought I was being a jerk. Until I shared a pic of the actual HP-28 on my desk. I don't need no stinking app - just some new batteries every year or two!

One of the younger folks on the call goes "duh, there's a calculator in your phone".
Yeah, yeah, we know. We're old. And nostalgic dorks.
He doesn't realize that he'll be getting nostalgic about something in 20-30 years.
Like using "the calculator in his phone" when everyone else is using the quantum computer brain implant 3000.

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I found a Texas instruments ti-30 calculator in the trash, put new batteries in it works fine. I love free stuff!

I told a co-worker we don't use no phone calculators when I got the real thing right here. The on screen keys of a phone calc just don't feel right.
 
I remember when Texas Instruments made the first handheld calculator. $450.00 that added, subtracted, multiplied and divided when an Aerospace Engineer made little over $6.00 per hour it was two weeks salary. The microchip was developed by TI so the Apollo could have a 64k flight computer to go to the moon.
 
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