6 ms·
The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than p
by dymk 5y ago
The one thing that drives me up the wall is being on a beach, or on a hike, and somebody brings out a drone. The whine of the rotors carries much farther than people would like to admit. The ambient screech makes a beautiful natural landscape feel like an anxious techno nightmare.
Now make them cheap, connect it to social media, and target them at teens.
Let's hope these don't take off (pun intended). At least they can only run for a few minutes per battery charge.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- flatiron 5y agoTotally unrelated but I feel like everyone smokes weed on the beach now. I’m not a prude, I don’t care, I just don’t want to smell it and have my kids ask about it all the time.
- GoodJokes 5y ago
- bobkazamakis 5y agoIt sure would suck to have to engage in some kind of discussion with my own children.
- tdhz77 5y agoAtticus is that you?
- flatiron 5y agoWhat does this have to do with my comment? Or are you saying it should be a gift to go “some people smoke but you shouldn’t smoke because it’s breaking the rules and yes they are breaking the rules and no I can’t make them stop” is really fun. A blast.
- sodality2 5y agoMy dad used to tell me cigarettes tasted horrible but that doctors prescribed them as punishment for poor health. Seems to have worked!
- dmamills 5y agoA gift? Maybe depending on how full you are seeing the glass at any given time. But perhaps OP was trying to say: When you bring a human into the world, you are going have to explain a lot of it to them.
- dymk 5y agoJust tell them they'll learn about it in 8th grade from the goths that hang out next to the Arby's.
- walrus01 5y agoI'd much rather that people smoke weed on the beach than the typical behavior I see from groups of drunk people wandering from bar/club to another bar/club in the "entertainment district" in the evenings in any major city.
- Saris 5y agoIt would be nice to see some more effort put into noise. The tradeoff is shorter flight time, so I imagine that's why they're all loud. Drones with 8 or 12 bladed props can be surprisingly quiet, with essentially no whine at all.
- throwaway6734 5y agoIve been wondering if balloon based or gliding drones would be gliding. So trade off some control for much longer flight times
- whatshisface 5y ago>It would be nice to see some more effort put into noise. The tradeoff is shorter flight time, so I imagine that's why they're all loud. This is not necessarily true - the noise is a waste of joules, after all.
- Saris 5y agoVery little though, the energy needed to make the noise is incredibly tiny compared to the energy used to fly.
- mrtksn 5y agoSounds like we need a cheap, portable and available EMP device :) Seriously though, noice by electronics should be considered a hazard.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- lanamo 5y agodrones make unwanted noise and ruin the atmosphere of natural settings. does the world need your boring selfies from an aerial perspective? No. absolutely not. Only worse than these snapchat plastic teeny drones would a V2 with built-in flood light, for added light-pollution. Let's spoil star-gazing, too! I feel the sudden urge to pick up a book about falconry...
- a254613e 5y agoYou sound so grumpy. People want cool shots from drones for themselves, deal with it.
- dymk 5y agoMore people want to enjoy a peaceful outdoors than those who want to play with loud fads in shared spaces. Deal with it.
- rsanek 5y agoSource? I think the want to take a cool shot from a drone could actually make alot more teens go outdoors. I don't like drones either but incentivizing going outside through social media is an interesting concept and certainly beats them staying indoors.
- dymk 5y ago> Source? No, thank you > could actually make alot more teens go outdoors That's not society's problem. I'm not trying to come up with ways to incentivize Lil' Jimmathy to see the great outdoors at any cost. People can go outside and respect others' desire to enjoy peaceful, beautiful nature, or they can stay inside and scroll on their phones.
- rsanek 5y agoInteresting, I actually perceive it to very much be society's problem, and do consider it my responsibility to promote mental and physical health in my community. I found this post [0] useful in considering the difference between entitlement and responsibility. [0] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
- poundtown 5y agoi feel this after spending a weekend at the board walk in jersey. influencers all over the damn place..super soaker? nerf gun? target practice at the beach!
- 2muchcoffeeman 5y agohttps://spyra.com/ https://spyra.com/
- bko 5y agoAs someone else mentioned, the intended videos are 30 seconds, which I think is reasonable. The battery last 5-8 recordings, so at most 4 minutes. It's really not a big deal IMO
- jumpman500 5y agoYea I mean all crowded public places suck if you’re trying enjoy the scenery and relax… I don’t think this product would make it any worse. There’s already plenty of ways to make a lot of noise and annoy folks.
- outcoldman 5y ago100% agree with you. I own the drone, flew it like 10 times. The main reason, when I bring it with me on road trips - if I see people around, I don't feel comfortable spinning the motors. But those 10 times are mostly when there is nobody around in the BLM lands, I want to take a nice video of beautiful landscape for myself.
- bastardoperator 5y agoYou should hear canadian geese in nature, I'd take a drone over those any days. I was just in nature near Yosemite listening to those things squeek for hours while also crapping on everything. Nature isn't always silent...
- ge96 5y agoMy concern was restaurants