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That drone face is next level tho. And at burning man?
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u/IndividualNinja879 Sep 15 '22
Did I….. just watch a bunch of drones making massive dicks in the sky?
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u/SeptemberTwentyFirst Sep 15 '22
Not at all knocking it whatsoever - obviously a fucking dope work of art, but I assume you model it all out in some kind of 3D drone software and just tell them all when and where to fly in relation to each other and they do the work from there automatically?
Actually, I'd love to see some youtubes on how that's done, Im sure its fascinatingly more complex than that
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u/asionm Sep 15 '22
You act like making the software in the first place is some easy thing. We aren’t marvelling at the fact that someone’s using the technology it’s the fact that someone could make software that connects to all of those drones at the same time that makes it so cool.
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u/SeptemberTwentyFirst Sep 15 '22
No not at all, Im baffled and blown away daily by the problem solving skills that software engineers have (I work in aerospace in IT supporting a ton of these kinda folks). I meant to say the opposite with the beginning of the comment but I see how it implies otherwise. Its utterly years beyond my comprehension and I know even my own assumption of how complex it is doesnt even come close. Shits nuts
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u/CowboyButtsMakeMeNut Sep 15 '22
Nope, every drone is controlled independently by a different operator. They're that good. There are actually fairly new doctorate programs at some schools on the west coast for drone operation. It's so insane that it's almost unbelievable.
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u/LanceFree Sep 15 '22
No, It’s individual controllers but 50 octopuses are working them.
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u/AntiBox Sep 15 '22
...no it's fully automated. There's even software that just takes an image and turns it into a flight plan.
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u/NorthboundLynx Sep 15 '22
Both of you are wrong. They're just birds with collars with an LED on it, they train them to fly in patterns
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u/MajSARS Sep 15 '22
Liar. There’s no such thing as birds.
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u/IGotBigHands Sep 15 '22
Well birds are just government drones so I guess back to square one
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u/ohtrueyeahnah Sep 15 '22
Squares arent real either, lets circle back to the drawing board.
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That software just sends the image to a team in Guangzhou who make the individual flight plans from the image, ready to distribute to the drone operation team.
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u/TheSacredEarth Sep 15 '22
Adding this on the top comment but this kind of already exists and if you’re curious about it google/wiki cargo cult.
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u/Boojibs Sep 14 '22
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT
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u/jairomantill Sep 14 '22
Proceeds to shit on the floor.
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u/Streen012 Sep 14 '22
Who’s flipping their shit?
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u/TheIronSoldier2 madlad Sep 14 '22
You gotta flip it to get an even sear on both sides
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u/Exotic_Treacle7438 Sep 15 '22
forbidden beef
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Shitty beef jokes are a rare medium well done
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u/crash8308 Sep 15 '22
What do you call a cow with no legs?
Ground Beef
What do you call a cow with two legs?
Lean Beef
What do you call a cow who just gave birth?
Decalfinated
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u/Material-Bag833 Sep 15 '22
First we should plant listening devices in the trees and learn their language so we can make our giant light god more relatable to them!
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u/ChrisWolfling Sep 15 '22
Make it a whole reality series where they give the people different things and see how they react. Like one day drop a box full of light sabers, the next launch fireworks from a helicopter, then send an animatronic Dinosaur on a suicide mission...
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u/ChillyBearGrylls Sep 15 '22
Or a bottle of Coke, since we must be crazy
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Don't need to poision them so soon
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It’s empty, don’t worry
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u/RevolutionaryAct6931 Sep 15 '22
That already washed up like yesterday, we need something interesting
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u/LordDK_reborn Sep 15 '22
I want to watch this now
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u/dustlustrious Sep 15 '22
This is so evil but so do I. It's the ultimate, final form for reality TV.
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u/YouLikeReadingNames Sep 15 '22
Are we talking about the Sentinelese ?
Dropping off stuff has been done before, they systematically destroy everything from the outside world.
They really don't want anything to do with us, and I don't blame them. Especially because of the precedent. They're not actually uncontacted, but the first and last time they had actual contact with the outside was with 19th century colonialists. So that wasn't a great experience.
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u/17degreescelcius Sep 15 '22
They've used metals that've been washed up on shore before so they least somewhat utilize our tech
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u/LastLivingPineapple Sep 15 '22
Make the series last 10 seasons and end it with the tribe finally being integrated with the rest of humanity.
30 years later start apologizing profusely to their offspring for fucking with their parents and disrespecting their culture, but everytime you do add "yo that TV show was lit though" and air reruns every year.
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u/DesignatedDonut Sep 15 '22
First episode starts really simple like dropping a coke bottle from the sky by one of the villagers
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u/RevolutionaryAct6931 Sep 15 '22
We gave them a new god to worship for the next billion years.
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u/Dietberd Sep 15 '22
Just send in a giant dick. Dick jokes are common across all cultures.
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u/hodnydylko Sep 15 '22
We should also put speakers there and when “god” appears play the halo theme
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u/ApplesTeamFort2 Sep 14 '22
“you’re a villain, just not a super villain.”
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u/draugotO Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22
"you dare challenge Megamind?!"
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u/nothuman-exe Sep 15 '22
"yes megamin . tis i , insignificantbrai"
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u/monnnstella Sep 14 '22
Whoa man... brilliant.
Fucked up...
But brilliant.
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u/SB6P897 Sep 15 '22
Can you imagine some fucked up government or wealthy billionaire using this to persuade the natives to flee their homeland and join urban civilization so that they could turn their jungle into precious real estate?
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u/DeMonstaMan Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22
Using this idea to write a book and become the next Steven King
Esit: Just realized RDR2 has a side mission with the exact same plot
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u/RossOfFriends Sep 15 '22
I don’t even know who the first Steven King is
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u/spiritjex173 Sep 15 '22
Maybe it's Stephen King's long lost cousin.
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u/RossOfFriends Sep 15 '22
see now THAT guy has some cred.
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u/DeceiverOfNations Sep 15 '22
Nah I think it's an Steve/Stephan Urkle situation.
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u/pincus1 Sep 15 '22
Some day poor Stephen will reach a level of fame where 60% of people don't spell his name wrong.
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I’ve read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I know what this is about.
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u/SB6P897 Sep 15 '22
Holy fuck so Willy Wonka was one of the efforts to relocate and urbanize natives huh?
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u/kamelizann Sep 15 '22
Cargo cults in WW2 were wild. Us soldiers island hopping in the pacific set up military bases, traded and interacted with the natives, then bailed leaving some of their equipment behind. That one is the most famous, where a soldier named "John Frum" (as in "John from America") became a prophet to them that would return with riches. [This is a great video on it.](https://youtu.be/xVD8eLvig_I\)
They viewed the soldiers almost as a race of demigods with infinite resources that would come back to save them one day. They even built landing strips to encourage aircraft to land in hopes they would bring riches. It's crazy.
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u/Due-Implement-1501 Sep 15 '22
Isn't this just the modern version of the "March 1504 lunar eclipse" story?
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u/Heibaihui Sep 14 '22
I thought a cargo of snacks worked just fine during WW2.
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u/carpwrist Sep 15 '22
That is where the term "cargo cult" comes from.
We use this term an unfortunate amount in computer programming to refer to code no one really understands but know it somehow just works.
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u/Itsmemanmeee Sep 14 '22
Next level practical joker this one...
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u/Khaoz_Se7en Sep 15 '22
Making Sal tonight’s biggest loser 😃
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u/Itsmemanmeee Sep 15 '22
Haha, what's his punishment?!?
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u/Khaoz_Se7en Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22
Go live amongst them with nothing but the clothes on his back
Edit: and the mic in his ear to get fucked with by the rest
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u/pumpkin2500 Sep 15 '22
“you guyssss this is so unfair. why does joe never have to live with an undocumented and possibly dangerous tribe??”
“i dont lose, buddy”
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u/okiedokie64 Sep 14 '22
We do a little trolling
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u/Damchester Sep 15 '22
I heard the voice of god
What did god sound like?
A swarm of angry bees
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u/LordgGrass Sep 15 '22
Honestly, I could see the Emperor doing that during the Great Crusade to some backwater human colony.
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u/gnargnarking Sep 15 '22
I came here to say basically the same thing. He and Malc would absolutely hornswaggle some feral world to bring them into the fold and impose a tithe for the Imperial Army and keep it moving.
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u/Tomohelix Sep 15 '22
Big E doesn’t need the drones or tech to convince people he is a god. He IS a god. His very presence is enough, no extra effort required.
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u/FLacidSN4ke Sep 15 '22
Now now, we all know The Emperor of Mankind is just a man like everyone else wink
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u/Dorks_And_Dragons Sep 14 '22
The drone face reminds me of that scene in Megamind
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u/Spacemanspalds Sep 14 '22 edited Sep 16 '22
Can we be certain this hasn't already happened?
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u/Spacemanspalds Sep 15 '22
By some random rich dude who had a similar idea.
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u/ens91 Sep 15 '22
It was common practice in the 16/1700s. Find a tribe, use modern technology to make them believe you are gods. I can't remember who it was, maybe blackbeard? Came to an island, with lots of pyrotechnics, and told the people to give them food. Knowing there would be a blood moon soon, he said that if they didn't give him food, a week from now he would turn the moon blood red. They didn't give him food, and lo and behold, 1 week later, the moon turned red and the tribe positively shit themselves, and handed over the food.
There's a theory that Robert Louis Stevenson also used this kind of tactic on the people of Samoa, whilst searching for the lost treasure of Coco Island.
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u/Hairybuttchecksout Sep 15 '22
There was a story about predicting an eclipse too. Said their god was superior and if the natives didn’t give them resources then the god would take away the moon or something.
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u/TheMagicalLlama Sep 15 '22
Sounds like utter horseshit tbh made up by dudes who just robbed and stole their shit. They’re tribal they’re not idiots. Eclipses happen and everyone can see them, it’s not a discovery
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u/Onion-Much Sep 15 '22
While it's a overused trope, it doesn't come from thin air. Colonial history is full of similar stories. 'Explorers" landing in Central America and literally being mistaken for gods was well documented, on both sides.
South America also had a incredible range of civil development. From deeply isolated tribes to massive metropoletan areas. Europeans never go to see those in their full glory, since foreign phatogens killed most of their populations
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u/Alerointrigue12 Sep 15 '22
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
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u/VeneMage Sep 14 '22
Might seem a bit extreme but let’s have sound with the drones telling them to love one another and to live and let live. Then destroy the rest of humanity and let the great reset happen.
Or, some egos will create their own version of the story and seek to subvert others for their own gain.
Hmm, maybe let me think about this one a bit more.
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u/pookshuman Sep 14 '22
the guy is aiming a bow and arrow at a helicopter pilot ... he can see what he is aiming at and he knows it is not god
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u/Comparison_Past Sep 14 '22
He might change his mind if the helicopter erupted with missiles and machine gun fire.
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u/pookshuman Sep 14 '22
that would kill him, not change his mind
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u/Comparison_Past Sep 14 '22
Don’t have to hit him. Just a little old school shock and awe.
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u/pookshuman Sep 14 '22
why would they bring an attack helicopter to survey a primitive tribe's camp?
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u/Flipmstr2 Sep 14 '22
They have weapons. We must protect ourselves
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u/Jeff_Jefferson-17 Sep 14 '22
"your honor, that man was armed and I felt my life was at stake!"
"Sir, that was a three year old with a toy bow./
"He said he was going to kill me your honor"
:)
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u/Comparison_Past Sep 14 '22
I mean the premise of the post was that a group of drones could be used to convince a primitive tribe the operator was god.
You were the one that brought up helicopters.
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that primitive tribe killed countless idiots. or maybe they were counted. probably counted.
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u/Delusional_Gamer Sep 15 '22
What if a heavily armored guy who can't get hurt by their weapons was dropped there.
You had drones with bombs flying high enough to be barely visible
The armored dude would gesture to the sky followed by explosions from the drones
Then one big gesture at the ocean with a good "Hoooyaaaahh!!"
There you blow up some heavy explosives to make a really big explosion
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u/DinkleDonkerAAA Sep 15 '22
"They thought no one was around to get hurt" "That assumption was wrong"
Those two sentences alone fill me with dread
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u/ShawshankException Sep 15 '22
Idk man if a giant face suddenly appeared in the sky with no other means of explanation, I'd question some shit
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u/bowling4burgers Sep 14 '22
You could do that shit over a tent revival in Alabama and get the same result
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Maybe we could get them to stop fucking their sisters this way too
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u/uncle_bumblefuck_ Sep 14 '22
Woah woah woah, let's get them to make it past 7th grade first. Baby steps.
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u/sudo-netcat Sep 15 '22
Be not afraid.
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u/RevolutionaryAct6931 Sep 15 '22
Wtf is that noi- HOLY SHIT A FACE IN THE SKY, IS THAT insert god name here
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u/demoman45 Sep 14 '22
Game I used to play called “Black & White” had the same premise. Damn it’s been a long time
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u/emailo1 Sep 15 '22
That would be hilarious
Fucked up, unethical, straight up being assholes, we shouldn't do it
But it would be hilarious
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u/gm2 Sep 15 '22
Figure out the north sentinelese language and have the drone show up over their island and make it say
"STOP JACKING OFF"
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u/GreggoryBasore Sep 15 '22
There aren't any uncontacted tribes left in the world, at least so far as we know. Decades ago, a bunch of poor tribal types in Asia made up a fake tribe called "The Moreau" who hadn't advanced at all since the stone age.
Historians and other interested eggheads would come from all over the world to study them and see them using the most primitive tools, sleeping in caves or next to fires etc. Careful steps were taken to ensure no contamination of their culture could happen. No mechanical devices or even eye glasses were allowed. They had to dress in animal furs and such.
Turned out people from different villages around the region had been taking turns pretending to be this made up tribe, as a way to fuck with the condescending eurodorks and trick them into spending days, weeks or months dressing like cavemen and looking like idiots. It was a giant fuck you to their cultural hubris.
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u/Mrnoobixy Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22
Make a Nikocado Avocado but hole image with those drones and simulate anal sex with those drones
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u/MrQuaintTown Sep 15 '22
Totally possible that aliens did this many many years ago the our ancestors! haha
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u/blackfrieza666 Sep 15 '22
This is what aliens did long ago…, remember advanced technology is no different than magic
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