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Fighting Fire From the Sky

Posted by michael on from the also-known-as-rain dept.

exceed writes: "Yahoo! News has an article on an unmanned robotic airplane that is able to circle around wild fires for up to 24 hours, sending data and images back down to earth via satellite. The Altus II, created by NASA, employs cutting edge technology usually seen in military aircraft, giving fire officials a real-time view of fires that can burn over hundreds of thousands of acres. The plane could map dozens of fires and topographical features in a day, never endangering a pilot."

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  1. never endangering a pilot by Oo.et.oO · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    yeah, sure! just anyone at the airport or underneath... i don't trust those robots
    we all saw what happened in "AI" (aside from a waste of my $8).
    and i heard those things are made from stem cells!

    ok, seriously... this is cool, forest fires are scary and really suck when some careless boob flicked his butt out the window or worse.

    "only YOU can help stop forest fires, oh, and robots..."