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There's a killer Neal Stephenson plotline in here somewhere. Redneck protagonist zapping enemy drones with a modified laser welder.
by isoprophlex 2y ago
There's a killer Neal Stephenson plotline in here somewhere. Redneck protagonist zapping enemy drones with a modified laser welder.
- paranoidrobot 2y agoI had to look it up, because I thought that was what "Reason" was in Snowcrash. I was mistaken: Reason was a railgun.
- rtkwe 2y agoThe weird part of reason is it is also (in the family of) a mini gun with it's multiple rotating barrels.
- zokier 2y agoOh yes: https://youtu.be/xNmbvaUzC8Q https://youtu.be/xNmbvaUzC8Q This is why we can't have nice things
- trelane 2y agoAlmost a different Funranium post: https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2022/12/choose-your-own-radiation-adventure-anti-drone-radiation/ https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2022/12/choose-your-own-radiat...
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoHmmm. I'm black, but my wife did anoint me to the position of "honorary redneck" some time ago. Neighbor has stopped with the drone overflights of my property, but still, you're giving me ideas...
- isoprophlex 2y agoGo get em cowboy!
- rtkwe 2y agoBe careful as far as the FAA is concerned drones get the same legal protection as a plane with people in them so messing with them is legally hazardous.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoI know. Hence the laser: blind the camera first and they can't prove that it didn't mysteriously drop out of the sky as soon as it passed the property line.
- bzax 2y agoI feel obliged to mention that this does feature prominently in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars trilogy. The single most important piece of infrastructure on Mars is a space elevator, but not everyone on the planet is happy with how the owners of the space elevator are running things.