This is fantastic info, thanks! Though I’d still say this is mostly an issue of cost-effectiveness. If a cargo-plane airdropping crates of supplies isn’t cost-effective, it does seem unlikely that a drone somehow would be, given the very small carrying capacity. Could there be military or search-and-rescue applications where sending 2 person-days of food and water to a very precise location with very little notice and no need to recover the aircraft be worth the cost?
Again, seems very risky for a start-up making a fresh design, rather than adapting an existing product, but “risky” and “ridiculous” are not the same thing. It seems like the main reason this specific project was targeted for ridicule was the idea that it was an edible drone, which doesn’t seem to actually be the case.
