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Even a kilogram of marijuana would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000. Something like pure cocaine is worth vastly more. For this to work in the longe
by TillE 12y ago
Even a kilogram of marijuana would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000. Something like pure cocaine is worth vastly more.
For this to work in the longer term, the drone would need to fly high enough to be more or less undetectable from the ground, and a long enough distance so that it's impossible to monitor all available landing sites. I don't know enough about drones or the US-Mexico border to say whether that's practical.
- fit2rule 12y agoYou mean low enough to the ground to be undetectable - and there is already hobby-level advanced technology to do this out on the intrawebs. I myself am building drones (planes, mostly) to do things like auto-navigate the neighborhood and so on, and am actively seeking ways I can get involved in a startup to use this technology for positive effects. I'm not at all surprised to see the drug cartels already making headway on carrying loads - there are a near infinite number of other good applications of this technology, which I sincerely hope governments allow to prosper, anyway, in spite of this ...
- kxo 12y agoYour first price is about two times what top shelf, domestic black market prices are presently at.
- vacri 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap-of-the-earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap-of-the-earth Flying low actually helps you against ground-based watchers, because they don't see you for very long as you zoom over them. You're on the ground and you detect a drone... and bam, it's gone.