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Seems like they knew exactly where it was going to fail.
by zaroth 6y ago
Seems like they knew exactly where it was going to fail.
- yborg 6y agoAnd they must have known it was imminent, it seems unlikely they had a drone over it 24/7 given the available hover time.
- luisjv 6y agoThey were doing hourly inspections of the structure ever since the report came out a couple of weeks ago.
- jakub_g 6y agoOn the bottom of the linked page there's a press release from last month: one cable failed in August, then another a few weeks later at 60% of expected of load, and they decided on Nov19 it's unsafe to fix it and it should be decommissionned. https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301674&org=NSF&from=news https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301674&org=NS...
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- usrusr 6y agoFor a use case like this, I'd imagine that tethered multicopters could be a very nice fit. If you can just plug the base station into a power outlet, suddenly 24/7 doesn't seem that crazy. PS: Apparently I'm not alone with this idea, search engine comes up with hits. https://elistair.com/ https://elistair.com/ even have a tether kit you can plug into some DJI models (and others) instead of the conventional battery pack. Out of Lyon, France, nice!
- libria 6y agoBonus, if they tethered it to the suspended receiver, it would automatically follow the action right down to impact, albeit with unpredictable viewing angles.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoThey could use a spherical/360 camera and correct the viewing angle in post.
- JshWright 6y agoI attended several BLM events this past summer and local law enforcement had a couple tethered drones up in the area.
- sm4rk0 6y agoPlease decide, Lyon or Nice?
- nuccy 6y agoYes. The drone was accessing the tower where cable has snapped before, so other cables there were under highest load. The fact that drone was there in the "right" moment likely just a coincidence, probability of which was increased by the hourly inspections.