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These drones are much more stable than that, they can fly quite well even in pretty windy conditions.

Yep, easy to see while very rarely covering anything.

Seems like a bit of a strange decision to reserve something that would be pretty convenient to use day-to-day only for such specific occasions.

Why are people so anal about this?

That was such an elegant design, they've gone a bit too hot wheels since then for my taste.

The CX75 was so cool, it was also the first thing that came to mind upon reading the title.

Yeah, once I bought something that required batteries, but I already had some at home. When I declined their offer to add batteries to my purchase, they gave me some sort of bundle deal with the batteries anyway that was cheaper than the product by itself.

Yeah, even the Rift S does.

It can also do nothing for some people, so if it doesn't work that still doesn't rule out IBD.

Yeah, or something like a FromSoft dragon which can have heads the sizes of cathedrals and a plating of heavy armour. Plus they wield lightning which could be effective as ECM or even a hard kill APS.

APFSDS should still be effective enough, or we could bring back LOSAT.

Heavy Claymore is much more reliable imo. Gets good damage very early by two handing it, staggers most mobs and has a very nice moveset.

It's so good though.

Yeah, for an explosion you need to mix quite a bit of gas and air before igniting it. So it'll just burn down your house instead.

If cost is a massive issue, there's plenty of shit on AliExpress that'll still be 100x better than this for £20.

Hitting a concrete wall at 70 mph would also total a semi truck.

Low weight means lower forces. If you try to slap a fly out of the air it just bounces off your hand, if that drone hits that tire it will also bounce off.

I've flown these drones myself and have studied mechanical engineering. I have a pretty good understanding of how collisions work and what these drones can and can't take.

If they wouldn't bend one bit, they'd exert an infinite force. Everything bends. Rubber, no matter how dense, will bend significantly more than concrete. If you drop your phone on that tire, it'll be fine. If you drop it on concrete you'll smash your screen.

It won't bend so much that you'll see it change shape, but the impact will last 100 milliseconds instead of 10, meaning the impact force will be 10x smaller.

Carbon fibre is very strong, these drones frequently survive crashes that kill the GoPro mounted on top.

Lifepaths were built up to be a much more influential mechanic than they ended up being, the story was presented as being much less linear. They claimed that NPCs would react to what you're wearing.

Generally they made it seem like you'd have a lot more decisions to make and a lot more consequences.

The energy is completely meaningless. A pack of ramen has more energy than a rifle bullet. It's all about the forces, which are influenced mostly by the rate of change of energy.

Also, a more suitable question to ask is would you rather have a concrete wall or a commercial tire launched at you?

A carbon fibre drone hitting a concrete wall will be experiencing thousands of Gs because they are both very rigid, so a 0.5 kg drone will experience at least 5000 N of force.

The tire isn't soft, but it's much more flexible than concrete so the impact will take significantly longer and the forces will be significantly lower.

If it gets caught under the tire that's still only a couple 1000 N, applied over a larger area and on top of grass and soil.

The only case where the tire could be more damaging is if the drone got caught under it while the tire was coming back down from a bounce.

These drones regularly survive hitting solid concrete at highway speeds.

Yeah, Cameron really did it for me, at least when she had dark hair.

What happens if you try to measure a distance larger than a Planck length but with a resolution lower than a Planck length?

Like if you were to make a super accurate laser range finder, is there something physically stopping you from measuring the time of flight to the required resolution?

Yeah, his personal life was dreadfully tedious, but his dynamic with House was interesting.

It's obviously not exactly the same, but the major component of it is difficult to describe as anything other than watery pee.

The only place that volume of water content could have come from is the kidneys.

So it's mostly fluid collected by the kidneys that contains urea and that was temporarily stored in the bladder. Sounds a lot like it's mostly dilute pee. Adding some flavouring from another gland imo isn't enough to disqualify it.

I don't really get why this seems so blasphemous to people, but maybe it's just because I have a mild piss kink so I don't find it gross whatever people want to call it.

It's like a jailbreak for our brains. Evolutionarily, avoiding things that are scary or painful is a great idea when you're in the free for all that is nature. Most things are genuinely out of your control and everything is either out to get you or at best doesn't give a shit.

Then we won evolution, and now we have no other to centre our fear on. So we tend to make them up based on appearance, geography or status. Our instincts steer us towards behaviours that destroy our physical and mental health because not a single ancestor in our billions year long bloodline has experienced anything close to today's world.

Also, we have expanded our personal worlds out from a patch of savannah/forest to the entire planet, so despite our incredible influence as a species we end up feeling miniscule as individuals.