Police training eagles to take down drones

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Needs more lasers

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Dinosaurs vs. Robots!

This is a good world :smiley:

For reference…

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Those trainers are my definition of the day for “bad ass.”

I’d never let those giant beaks get that close to my eyeballs.

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Yarrr! You could use pirate-trained parrots to do the job as well!

Is it time for a remake of The Falcon and the Snowden?

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[quote=“davide405, post:3, topic:73081, full:true”]
Dinosaurs vs. Robots!

This is a good world :smiley:[/quote]

A strong philosophical argument that this is truly the best of all possible worlds.

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“These pigeons taste funny.”

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Now there’s one who knows enough to keep his distance from dangerous critters!

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I am a little surprised that the eagles don’t get hurt. You hear about people performing their version of Un Chien Andalou relatively regularly…

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Given the damage a drone rotor can do to a living thing, I disapprove of this.

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I was about to post the same. If some drones can cause harm to people with the rotors i can’t see how birds of prey would be any safer from harm (especially from large drones).

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I concur. It might be better to train South Polar Skuas to attack the drone operators. They have excellent eyesight and will attack humans who they perceive to be a threat.

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There could be a second agenda, a breeding program to produce a subspecies of eagle that knows not to grab the spinning parts.

They are birds of foot - it’s the claws that are most dangerous.
Tame macaws are remarkably safe even though they are capable of crunching whole walnuts with their beaks. There was a pub around here once that had a tame macaw that used to go around removing the tops of fruit juice bottles when it wanted a drink. But I never heard of it harming a human being, though it was capable of biting a finger right off.

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We’re gonna need bigger drones.

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Take note, shotgun-wielding paranoids. There is an even MORE PATRIOTIC way to take down those things than using firearms!

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Put a high voltage capacitor with suitable wiring on the drone. A disposable camera photoflash could do the job, maybe with a bigger cap or more caps in parallel. Zap goes the birdie.