Meanwhile...

[Rutabaga]

The best use ever for a sort-of-drone was when David Blaine was pretending to fast for weeks in a glass box suspended from a crane, and someone flew a remote-controlled helicopter round and round him carrying a McDonalds bag full of burger and chips.

[Iris]

A man in a top hat got on my train at Croydon and travelled to Victoria, where he went upstairs to the pub.

[Rocky]

A man in a top hat got on my train at Croydon and travelled to Victoria, where he went upstairs to the pub.

Rees Mogg?

[Joan]

Rees Mogg?

In Croydon??

[LowlifeDes]

A man in a top hat got on my train at Croydon and travelled to Victoria, where he went upstairs to the pub.

Full on stovepipe or more Deadman?

[Iris]

In Croydon??

Or on a train????!!!!!

[Iris]

Full on stovepipe or more Deadman?

Somewhere in the middle.

[JohnToo]

Re the drone at Gatwick

Actually I accept that bringing down a drone requires prior investment in infrastructure or taking risks by shooting at it. What I don’t understand is how they’ve been unable to follow the bloody thing to see where it goes back to.

[Iris]

Re the drone at Gatwick

Actually I accept that bringing down a drone requires prior investment in infrastructure or taking risks by shooting at it. What I don’t understand is how they’ve been unable to follow the bloody thing to see where it goes back to.

What I don't understand* is why they can't just build battery stacks to store all that surplus power.

https://fpvdronereviews.com/guides/fast ... ng-drones/

Yes, those are built for speed, not battery life. But the fastest runs at over 150mph and the slowest nearly 70mph. Tracking something large which moves predictably in one dimension (if you're not in the same dimension) at those speeds is not straightforward. Add two more dimensions, take away predictability and I can begin to understand.


*Rhetoric. I don't understand, but I do understand why I don't understand.

[Dunckel]

Regarding drones.

What we need is someone with no knowledge of the subject, but access to google to become the forum expert and pontificate at length with much use of cut and paste. Anyone know where such a creature may reside?

[Rocky]

Regarding drones.

What we need is someone with no knowledge of the subject, but access to google to become the forum expert and pontificate at length with much use of cut and paste. Anyone know where such a creature may reside?

Would that same person have to have died for 3 days and then be resuscitated? And presumably he'd have to be an expert stalker?

[Regulator]

Would that same person have to have died for 3 days and then be resuscitated? And presumably he'd have to be an expert stalker?

Now, now... he’s never claimed it was three days.

He supposedly dropped dead at Midnight Mass and was taken by hearse to A&E because, as any fule knos, there’s always a funeral as part of the Christmas vigil.

[Regulator]

The Tories get all in a tizzy over the suggestion that Corbyn May have called Theresa May a ‘stupid woman’ (which some might argue is a factual statement)...

...but they’re supremely relaxed about Islamophobic comments by Boris Johnson.

[LowlifeDes]

The Tories get all in a tizzy over the suggestion that Corbyn May have called Theresa May a ‘stupid woman’ (which some might argue is a factual statement)...

...but they’re supremely relaxed about Islamophobic comments by Boris Johnson.

Which is all fair, these things are not absolute. If Jeremy Corbyn said the words stupid woman, then he failed to maintain reasonable standards of behaviour, ones we would expect from him. Johnson is a tory, so his behaviour was appropriate for the scum that he is.

[ransos]

The Tories get all in a tizzy over the suggestion that Corbyn May have called Theresa May a ‘stupid woman’ (which some might argue is a factual statement)...

...but they’re supremely relaxed about Islamophobic comments by Boris Johnson.

The outrage is entirely manufactured of course, but he shouldn't have said it.