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longship

(40,416 posts)

2. Just north of Silicon Valley.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:30 AM

Feb 2013

High tech firms all over the place. So-called drones are iconic geek hardware.

High school kids all over the world are hacking them together with off the shelf stuff for next to no cost. One guy sent a balloon into near space over the UK for a couple hundred bucks.

This tech is inexpensive, ubiquitous, and fairly easy to implement.

There will be no stopping this.

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Drone spotted hovering over west Oakland - No word on who it belongs to or what it was doing [View all] Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 OP

Welcome to the Police State, slipped in right under your nose. blkmusclmachine Feb 2013 #1

Just north of Silicon Valley. longship Feb 2013 #2

+1 nt Live and Learn Feb 2013 #3

I'm just surprised there haven't been any robberies by drone. Downwinder Feb 2013 #5

You mean a hexacopter that you can buy from many manufacturers intaglio Feb 2013 #4

.. Buzz Clik Feb 2013 #6

Good one! nt Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #9

Report it to the FAA as a hazard ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #7

Damn!!! greytdemocrat Feb 2013 #8