Author Topic: Amazon Air: The end of humanity is upon us.  (Read 9426 times)

watch some dumb rednecks try to shoot at those things
Because only farmers and people who live in the south are all uneducated and conservative republicans who are also conspiracy theorists that watch Fox news all day and believe Obama is a reptilian antichrist.

In my opinion these drones were only made to impress people rather than be practical.  Trucks and Cargo planes are here to stay.

Because only farmers and people who live in the south are all uneducated and conservative republicans who are also conspiracy theorists that watch Fox news all day and believe Obama is a reptilian antichrist.

In my opinion these drones were only made to impress people rather than be practical.  Trucks and Cargo planes are here to stay.
they said that about the car

Memebase is having a jolly time with this.



If you shoot at it, you're halting the mail system, which is a federal offense anyways.

Inb4Someone suggests cannons that launch the meechendise with a parachute that will deploy when close enough.
As far as I know the drones are owned and operated by Amazon and not the US postal service so the only crime committed would be vandalism.


Idealists...

Memebase is having a jolly time with this.
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DRONES ARE PLANNING ATTACK ON MANKIND. THE DRONES WILL MORPH INTO GIANTS AND SINGLE HANDEDLY CAPTURE THE UNITED STATES AS THEY REIGN AS THE GIGANTIC DRONES OF THE WORLD

I think if an unmanned helicopter can take off and land all on its own and know where the safe places are to land, a small drone could deliver a small package with the aid of GPS.
an unmanned helicopter would also be designed and built on an incredible budget (I'm not sure what you're talking about exactly, but I'd bet on a military one, at that), with all manner of sensors, as opposed to a small-budget, probably manufactured, quadrotor helicopter built by an online shopping company
not that I doubt what you're saying. in fact, you sorta just repeated what I said

Amazon isn't a small company, and I'd suppose they would have the budget to get something at least close to military grade.

Amazon isn't a small company, and I'd suppose they would have the budget to get something at least close to military grade.
the budget for the DOD in 2012 was like $500,000,000,000
compared to amazon's entire profit that year of $7,000,000
these little things aren't gonna come remotely close to military grade
and I never said they were a small company either, but compared to the united states military, they're pretty tiny

the budget for the DOD in 2012 was like $500,000,000,000
compared to amazon's entire profit that year of $7,000,000
these little things aren't gonna come remotely close to military grade
and I never said they were a small company either, but compared to the united states military, they're pretty tiny

7 million sounds way too low. You'd expect they get at least 4 times that. Where did you get those statistics?
Also, creating working package delivery drones won't cost half a trillion dollars??

7 million sounds way too low. You'd expect they get at least 4 times that. Where did you get those statistics?
Also, creating working package delivery drones won't cost half a trillion dollars??
turns out 7 million was too low, I decided to look at a couple of other websites when I searched to find the initial one, and it seems like the new york times made a typo, because it should be 97 million
which is still a lot less than 500 billion
anyway, it doesn't matter because you simply can't argue that amazon is nearly as large as the us military
but, judging by the last sentence in your post, you didn't read any of the rest of the conversation

Even if their budget isn't the highest in the world, this is still feasible. Quadrotor technology has come pretty far in the last few years, so it will cost less to do this than you might think. Sure, it might be an utter failure when it comes to usage by customers, but it is feasible to get it started.

And to those saying it's inefficient, I have three points for you:

1. It's not inefficient, way less pollution and power consumption than a truck (and yes, I know it can only deliver one package at a time while the truck can deliver many, but overall, I'd have to guess that the truck is still less efficient.

2. No pilots are required, meaning that it doesn't cost much to run this service once it's going. Repairs/servicing, replacement parts (both of which take place on trucks as well), and people doing data entry are the only real costs involved. Battery charging is fairly minimal; while it does add up over time, the extra price on the electricity bill would be almost negligable - most certainly less than the cost of gas for the same mileage.

3. This service is provided for the convenience of the customer, and to make extra bucks when people use the service. Regardless of how efficient or inefficient it may be, it provides a desirable outcome for each party.

considering the fact that it's theft and they will most certainly have a way to find it, I doubt anyone is going to be stealing them
"birds eating the drones"...??? seriously?
anything can crash, that's barely a reason not to use them
and do you really think they haven't considered battery power? do you honestly think that you've thought of such an obvious issue that the designers with college degrees didn't think of?
What a nice condescending attitude.
Anyways about birds eating the drones, birds in general would be a problem by crashing into them; say one of the drones crashed, in an area heavy with birds, I'm sure they would be picking the drones apart.
As anything can crash, that's very true, however the drone is unmanned compared to a loving 747, and in a dense urban area, large building will make it harder to deliver a package on time.
Battery power would also be consumed much more due to avoiding large obstacles.
People could steal drones and just remove their tracking device as these 2x2ft quadro-copters aren't exactly a puzzle to understand.
What if it starts raining? That's surely going to diminish their effectiveness, and what about wind?

The creators of the drones are all aware of these hazards I'm betting, I'm not posting these flaws to tell the developers there's something wrong with them, they most likely already loving know what's wrong. I'm posting on the block land forums, something completely unrelated, making a general reply. Stick your attitude up your ass.

What a nice condescending attitude.
Anyways about birds eating the drones, birds in general would be a problem by crashing into them; say one of the drones crashed, in an area heavy with birds, I'm sure they would be picking the drones apart.
As anything can crash, that's very true, however the drone is unmanned compared to a loving 747, and in a dense urban area, large building will make it harder to deliver a package on time.
Battery power would also be consumed much more due to avoiding large obstacles.
People could steal drones and just remove their tracking device as these 2x2ft quadro-copters aren't exactly a puzzle to understand.
What if it starts raining? That's surely going to diminish their effectiveness, and what about wind?

The creators of the drones are all aware of these hazards I'm betting, I'm not posting these flaws to tell the developers there's something wrong with them, they most likely already loving know what's wrong. I'm posting on the block land forums, something completely unrelated, making a general reply. Stick your attitude up your ass.
These drones are large enough to make wind and rain minimal factors - as long as there isn't a blizzard or lightning storm going on outside, they'd be ok.

Extra battery power isn't required to avoid large obstacles. All four motors will be on constantly regardless of where it is located. Anyway, most stuff it can just fly over; I'm guessing these things will have at least a 100ft cruising altitude.

Once again, I wouldn't worry too much about the birds. A well build quad can take a heavy beating and still fly - not to mention these things are not quiet, and an unfamiliar loud buzzing machine heading towards a bird should be plenty to make it turn tail. And who knows? Maybe they figured out a bird repellent; a coating of some sort, specific odor, high frequency sound waves... There are many possible things that could be put in place as security measures, and I'm sure their professional R&D team has thought through this.

There is also a chance they will install a sensor on it that allows it to detect people, allowing it to move out of reach if someone comes after it/near it.

Oh, and trust me; quadrotors have no problem avoiding obstacles, each other, or stabilizing under extreme conditions:  http://youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4

Using a Delivery Van that can deliver multiple packages in the same area without the risk of getting shot down by people or nature> Spending a lot of a money on a drone that can only deliver one package that can only deliver one package at a time and could be brought down.