Water is a lot heavier than you think, Randy.
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you see they get it from the sky, like the clouds, they don't need to bring it up
It was so funny watching Josh Johsnons video about how rural people are skeptical of city people because "they dont know where water comes from."
And then 24 hours later trumps saying the the answer to the fires is to use rain that comes from heaven.
Kinda wild to read, given how cities naturally crop up along bodies of water.
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What if helicopter, but, uh, it's small? Lots of small helicopters!
Side note, anyone else love that with generative AI computers are finally able to produce shitty CGI renders but worse? Like that picture looks like something that would show up in like a mid '00s "science channel" """documentary""" about hypothetical tech that's really just a commercial for some arms dealer, but it's all mangled and fucked up because it can't even make a shitty CGI render right anymore.
wot if a single one crashes and its lithium-ion battery goes off in a wilderness area that already has extreme fire conditions? 
Honestly that's probably best case scenario, as we would already have thousands of ready drones in the imitate vicinity. Even if emptied from previous efforts, the drones would instantly know the loss of one or more drones need to be doused, and we can deploy another 10000 or so to solve the problem quickly and cheaply.
Those 10,000 then fly blind into an area with high winds that creates its own weather system, can melt them, and that flings flaming particles for miles through the air. That's playing Russian roulette with 10,000 more rounds in the 
gun.
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I don't know all the details/specifics but USA wildland fire crews do have drone crews that use drones for mapping purposes- to aid direction of resources on ground, and monitor conditions. As you would imagine there are extensive bureaucratic procedures for any event where a done goes down/loses control/etc, it does happen- but my understanding is that it is never/rarely catastrophic failure.
I mean....good? Fight fire with fire, duh.
What if:
Also, flying a small drone with wind speed reaching 100kmh
No no that's just a plane, we need a bunch of drones capable of carrying 2 cups of water each all controlled by some AI bullshit in a datacenter that is currently on fire.
Please bro, think of the potential growth bro, think of the synergy bro please bro machine learning bro
machine learning
The market demands you to rephrase this as AI
some AI bullshit in a datacenter that is currently on fire.
of its own making!
One step from
They had 747s to dump water (not technically water but I'm calling it water to avoid waltzing around the slur filter) to carry 70,000 liters of water to fight fires. I'd be shocked if a single drone could even carry 1 liter of water. They don't have these anymore because the 747 was owned by a private company who went under and sold it to an airline.
Removed-dant
You're telling me a fire removed this dant?
Get Sremovedhorpe'd, bozo
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Each one dropping 10oz of Perrier
Lmao
drone piss
Some quick searching shows that the heavy duty cargo drones top out at about 480 lbs of payload. At 8.33 lbs per gallon, 480 lbs of water is about 57 gallons. According the Wikipedia the smaller end of aerial firefighting planes hold about 800 gallons. So you’d need 15-16 of the most heavy-duty drones to match the output of one plane, and of course it’s simpler and quicker to refill one large tank than fiddling with 16 smaller ones.
8.33 lbs per gallon, 480 lbs of water is about 57 gallons
USAian nonsense.
Metric. 1 kilogram = 1 litre
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The thing that would probably get cheaper is pilot costs. At least here, a pilots licence is about 200 times a commercial drone licence, and I assume insurance costs would come down due to not actually putting people in the air.
There's also an advantage to having more eyes in the sky to spot smaller fires breaking out, and potentially putting them out with a smaller payload.
I can see it having its uses, but the main use would be selling drones.
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Just use a train except now its a plane.
Alright I got an idea. See those FPV drones used in Ukraine? Same principle but instead of strapping an old RPG-7 warhead to it we put small water balloons and then we smash the drone into the fire. That'll work out just fine.
Everything but solving the core issues plz
A device that's little more than a lithium-ion battery, a water tank and propellers. Nothing bad could possibly happen if the first two somehow came into contact with one another.
Can someone recolor that water yellow?
Well, quite unfortunate timing on that post: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/firefighting-aircraft-hit-by-drone-228950085731
Sometimes I wish tech bros had their way and all of our working infrastructure was replaced with their dumb ideas. Would be interesting to see how fucked up everything has to be until they finally admit to being wrong, well... if they would ever do that.
if they got paid then to them it wasn't wrong
The fire suppression version of when that brain genius called for replacing the new York subway with tens of thousands of segways
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