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Airport is probably a very different environment, though? I imagine that if you have a military installation, you don't mind blasting some birds with RF every n
by runtime_blues 3y ago
Airport is probably a very different environment, though? I imagine that if you have a military installation, you don't mind blasting some birds with RF every now and then (and the birds probably don't mind either).
- excalibur 3y agoAs a passenger on commercial aircraft, I don't mind reducing the bird population near an airport.
- version_five 3y agoA bird is small and largely non-conducting. I'd guess it could plausibly survive a burst of microwave that could disable a drone, at any practical distance from the weapon.
- dist-epoch 3y agoMicrowave tends to "cook" you.
- Retric 3y agoMicrowave covers a huge range 300 MHz to 300 GHz and they want something that will work in the rain or fog which means minimizing absorption by water as much as possible.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoI think that if a drone is threatening civilian airline traffic you don't mind blasting some birds, either.
- ok_dad 3y agoUnfortunately I do mind. Here’s where I live, there’s a bunch of endangered birds that live near the airport and don’t live literally anywhere else. Can’t really just go shooting them with death rays.
- vikramkr 3y agoIf any birds are in that situation near a military base or war zone I hope we got some if them in a zoo or dna as a backup for if we invent really good cloning since otherwise those birds are extinct
- ok_dad 3y agoThere's no war zone near me, so I guess the military doesn't need to shoot birds.
- melagonster 3y agounfortunately, Korea have
- cdot2 3y agoThe priorities at that point would probably be stopping any terrorist threat before protecting endangered birds.
- ok_dad 3y agoThere's no terrorist threat but there are birds, so we shouldn't just shoot birds for no reason.
- usernew 3y agoSame here. I have zero terrorists in my backyard. I do have kids, rabbits, lots of birds, kites, etc. What's up with these idiots thinking about putting this microwave bird killer in my back yard where there are no threats against which to protect. Idiots.
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