I hesitate mentioning this because some Libtard is going to complain but I think it's important to look at how far this technology has come and how some government agencies could use this technology for nefarious purposes like in Gaza.
I signed up for a drone course because you need a license to fly a drone over a certain size now and I know nothing about drones. I figured taking a course would teach me something about them and help me prepare for the test to get my license. Turns out there are a whole lot of regulations involved.
Well I just got an email about a drone summit asking if I wanted to attend. At first I thought that sounds interesting, where is it? Camrose, Alberta. Nope. If it was local I would but I'm not traveling all the way out there for one.
So I look at the schedule and see one of the sessions is about Feral Hog Control supported by Thermal Drones. That's interesting. I just want it for taking pictures and videos of the back country. I didn't realize Alberta farmers had a feral hog problem. I've never seen feral hogs in BC.
That's more something I'd expect in medieval England. I'm told they also have them in Korea. Evidently it's a big problem in Texas and it's spreading. Seemingly the wild boars in the US are so aggressive and breed so rapidly, they have to cull 70 % of the population just so it won't grow and that 30% can bring it back to 100 % in one season.
A quick glance on YouTube shows they can use drones with thermal imaging to hunt feral hogs. That's very interesting and helpful but the technology goes far beyond that.
Take a look at this video. It shows a drone capturing two feral hogs eating a farmer's crop. What's so surprising is the drone is powerful enough to lift the hogs in the air after it has captured them.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? If the drone is that powerful that it can pick up two hogs, one could also be built to capture a human being. Hunger games George Orwell.
At first I'm like OK that's got to be AI but there seems to be many different variations of hog catching drones. Maybe they're all AI. The friend of the one in this video is way too calm. It is an interesting concept though. It would definitely take a much more powerful drone than one that just takes pictures. Yet we know there are military drones that shoot people.
In the movie Angel has Fallen with Gerard Butler, the CIA sent in flocks of attack drones to assassinate the president and blamed it on terrorists. Those drones were very small and fast.
Too difficult to hit with a rifle. You'd need to sweep them with bird shot out of a shotgun. If they were bigger you could use buck shot but it's illegal to shoot a drone because it's classified as an aircraft. In times of war or during the zombie apocalypse, I'd shoot the drone. Netguns would also work.
This video shows them trapping wild hogs in the US and wow. Those hogs are aggressive. I asked Google AI can drones net and lift a wild boar? Google AI said "Yes, specialized, large industrial drones can net and lift smaller wild boars."
Then it provided a link to this video of hunters using a large drone to carry a boar they killed back to their vehicle. The large drone starts at 8:56 in the video. It also claimed netting drones have been used in China to capture boars to protect crops and linked to this video. It claims the maximum weight it can lift is between 66 and 88 pounds. Not big enough for a human yet.




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