The war in Ukraine has now gone on for so long that, birds in the Donbas region have adapted and are using strains of Drone control fiber optic cables to build their nests.
A post from Ukraine claims that this half-finished nest was found after a tree fell during a Russian glide bomb bombing.
Let us make it our goal, that our children will inherit a world in which birds once again build nests out of twigs and stalks.
@terminhell
Drone fiber is no ordinary FTTH or FTTD fiber though, built & insulated for years of use in pipes or under desks. Drone fiber is one-use, one-way fiber, fire and forget. A drone carries a spool of this fiber which unwinds and is left behind as the drone flies. Insulation would add unnecessary weight to the fiber and thus limit the usage of the drone. I guess (haven't found much detail) the drone light diode tech makes somehow up for the lack of insulation.
@terminhell
Yes, I remember (copper-) wire-steered rockets from the 80s. Unfortunately I have only limited information on the protocols and tech being used on todays fiber-optics drones made in Ukraine.
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