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#1 ADHadh Feb 01, 2012 17:58:54
#2 Klirshon Feb 02, 2012 5:23:19	I am not your brother and those aren't tools.
#3 zombie_babies Feb 02, 2012 8:18:35	That's pretty kewls.
#4 Mr_Miscellany Feb 02, 2012 12:24:32	That is A frickin Awesome! Watching the video, I felt like I was seeing the behind the scenes work by a film crew getting ready to shoot the movie version of Scott Westerfeld's The Risen Empire.
#5 EscherEnigma Feb 03, 2012 13:06:45	I wonder where the sensors are and where the math is done.  Do the flyers have their own sensors and do their own trajectory and collision calculations, or do they forward the data to a hub that then relays orders?
#6 zombie_babies Feb 03, 2012 13:48:59	I would guess a hub - which also fits with the apparent ease of coordinated motion these things display.
#7 bone_naga Feb 03, 2012 20:52:38	Awesome! Ashame Big Brother has a new tool. Not yet. Pulling that off in a clean environment is one thing. Making it work in a complex real world situation with multiple constantly-changing variables is a bit more difficult.
#8 EscherEnigma Feb 04, 2012 11:04:07	Yeah... nothing says fun times like having your data link go down because of EMF interference from the airport.  (face it, those guys have bigger more bad-ass radios then you can fit on your tiny flyers.  They just aren't powerful enough to ignore interference attempts). Not to mention wind.
#9 zombie_babies Feb 07, 2012 8:15:00	Yup.  The CIA had a friggin' dragonfly sized/shaped UAV in the '60s ... for a couple of minutes.  It was impossible to control in the real world.  Wind eddies just sent it everywhere.