Mastodawn

Wait, what?

Jerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 21

@GhostOnTheHalfShell the Walmart stores around me have aerial drone delivery. And it seems like everyone and their dog is using it here

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Mar 21

@jerry
I honestly didn’t think this was a real thing! 😲

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 21

@crispius @GhostOnTheHalfShell here one coming to my house when they first started the service a few months ago.

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My God it sounds like a fire storm of mosquitoes. There was one particular memorable, super warm night, hiking where all the mosquitoes emerged all at once and they made a noise like that.

I would consider something like that to be noise pollution and would be complaining to the police if somebody else was doing that my neighborhood.

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Mar 21

@jerry
Video won’t load for me, but I’ll take your word for it. I imagine at some point we’ll be hunting these things (and the food-delivery robots) like our ancestors hunted gazelles on the Savannah.

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@crispius @jerry

Willie Sutton denied ever saying that’s where the money is but he said I probably could’ve said it

Cy Mar 21

Yeah, might wanna rescale that video to be smaller. At 2160x3840, a minute and 30 seconds makes a 290 megabyte file. Not easy to download!

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zl2tod Mar 21

@crispius @GhostOnTheHalfShell

Do the Walmart drones run Mode-S/ADS-B ?

Melroy van den Berg Mar 21

@crispius @jerry @GhostOnTheHalfShell I also thought it would never actually roll out. Since you would never be able to sit outside and enjoy quietly the sun anymore.

That's insane they approved those drones over residential area.

How much of a payload can these things really carry? I also wonder what the costs are. Taking stuff up into the air is energy intensive no matter how you look at it. That’s why birds are built to be light.

Jerry 🦙💝🦙Mar 21

@GhostOnTheHalfShell I believe it is around 2.5 pounds

It is apparently pretty expensive as well.

I wonder if people are paying the full cost or not
https://talkinglogistics.com/2024/06/11/how-much-would-you-pay-for-drone-delivery/

Cy Mar 21

The fuck? Really?

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Silo 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦Mar 21

Best to regulate them before the business gets ahead of writing the rules.

Maybe your local regulators or council could write a rule that they should fly along a specific consolidated routes, or at a certain height, to reduce some noise.

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My vote would be that stand your ground laws would apply. They should be classified as varmits