Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky

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Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky

Posted by Unknown on Monday March 25, 2013 @04:04PM from the cooler-than-the-movie-itself dept.

garymortimer writes "As a harbinger for the Paramount film 'Star Trek — Into Darkness', starting in May in Europe's cinemas, last night a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria). Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircrafts."

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Considering it's a for a J.J. Abrams Movie ... by Psion · 2013-03-25 16:21 · Score: 5, Funny

All I can say is, "Bad Robots!"
LED Lights? by fustakrakich · 2013-03-25 16:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't try this in Boston

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1. Re:LED Lights? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-25 18:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  LED Lights
  It is important to distinguish Light Emitting Diode Lights from my new invention, the Dark Emitting Diode Lights!
  These new form of DED Lights beam a high intensity ray of stupid out at 35 degrees, blinding with dull sparkling amazement anyone near by.
2. Re:LED Lights? by slick7 · 2013-03-25 19:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It would be illegal in the US anyway thanks to the FAA.
  It wouldn't be illegal if it were for national security or for the children.
  
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3. Re:LED Lights? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-25 22:13 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  LED Lights
  It is important to distinguish Light Emitting Diode Lights from my new invention, the Dark Emitting Diode Lights! These new form of DED Lights beam a high intensity ray of stupid out at 35 degrees, blinding with dull sparkling amazement anyone near by.
  It's been done, we call it television. :-)
Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? by SternisheFan · 2013-03-25 17:07 · Score: 5, Funny

PS2: And it's not the "Star Trek logo", which consists of the stylized words "STAR TREK", but the Starfleet arrowhead emblem.
(puts on Simpsons' Comic Book Guy voice):
"Any *true* Star Trek fan knows that calling those 'logos' is perfectly acceptable, I refer you to Wiki-Answers... etcetera..."
THEY ARE ALL called emblems, or logos, or icons, or badges, which all mean the same thing. - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_Star_Trek_emblem_have_a_name
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Drone servers by game+kid · 2013-03-25 17:27 · Score: 4, Funny

In related news, The Pirate Bay is now formally refusing to take further donations for its airborne drone server plan. A London spokesman for the website said, "We've got more than enough capacity and redundancy now!", as he laughed mischievously and looked up towards the quadrocopter-filled sky. Paramount did not take our calls for comment.

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Fuckin JJ Abrams by Starfleet+Command · 2013-03-25 17:31 · Score: 5, Funny

Figures...the emblem is backwards.
1. Re:Fuckin JJ Abrams by anom · 2013-03-25 18:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Not from the other side :)
2. Re:Fuckin JJ Abrams by martin-boundary · 2013-03-25 21:32 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  AND it's upside down to confuse the Aussies! What a jerk!
In the future, when a permanent smog by QilessQi · 2013-03-26 01:01 · Score: 4, Funny

obscures the skies, these will be our constellations. ...interrupted every five minutes or so when the drones re-form themselves into an ad for hemorrhoid cream.

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Re:The Only Interest..... by cyborg_zx · 2013-03-26 01:22 · Score: 4, Funny

It's almost like they can't be bothered to just build the ships and go on location in space.