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This technology would also work great for nature movies and nature flight trips. Imagine you could rent rent an UAV , travel in Africa , from your home or a place with a giant screen , follow the great elephants crossing a river as if you were there.


Right, because what Elephants really need is to be hounded by a swarm of drones piloted by people from countries that are too lazy to even go see the world in person?

Besides the risk of idiots crashing their drones in to animals on purpose for kicks you'd have to deal with the effect of animals that are perpetually on the run for these things.

What next? Remote control trophy hunting?


> What next? Remote control trophy hunting?

In fact, Internet based, real-life hunting has been done, and is now illegal in the U.S.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0405/p01s02-ussc.html


Every time I've put a new upper limit on how weird a place the world really is someone will find a reference to something forcing me to revise the previous one.

At some level I still have a hope that this will stop some day but I fear that it will not and that on my dying day I'll have to revise it once again.




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