Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky 118
garymortimer writes "As a harbinger for the Paramount film 'Star Trek — Into Darkness', starting in May in Europe's cinemas, last night a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria). Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircrafts."
English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? (Score:5, Informative)
provided the aircrafts.
Plural of "aircraft" is -- "aircraft".
Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? (Score:5, Informative)
Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircraft.
Some moron thought he'd "correct" it.
Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:But do the drones support host files? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Fuckin JJ Abrams (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Why London? (Score:4, Informative)
The state in the UK is if the unmanned aerial system weighs less than 20kg (basically, like most RC models) the regulation is correspondingly light and commercial operation is allowed without the need for certified systems or to put a G-xxxx registration on the aircraft. However, a permit is still required to operate and the operator must have a qualification to fly the aircraft (effectively a "drone pilot license") if it is to be flown in a populated area.
Over 20kg and the UAS needs airworthiness approval.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP722.pdf [caa.co.uk]
Re:Just what we need (Score:4, Informative)
I am sure that when we will have effective robots, they will not be used to do anything you think they can do, but rather walk in the streets, tap your shoulder and when you look, they say "Hey mister, did you hear about this great new product
This is why the time to create ad-blocking solutions is now, not later. For hardware, the bigger the caliber, the better... for software, I recommend fully-jacketed over hollowpoints (maximum penetration). :)