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Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? by 1u3hr · · Score: 5, Informative

    provided the aircrafts.

    Plural of "aircraft" is -- "aircraft".

    1. Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Informative
      PS: TFA had it correct:

      Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircraft.

      Some moron thought he'd "correct" it.

    2. Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ? by 1u3hr · · Score: 1, Informative

      Yes, it's a "logo". It's not the "Star Trek" logo. (i.e. the logo of the show/series/franchise). It's the in-universe logo of Starfleet.

  2. Re:But do the drones support host files? by Cenan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Every time you post a comment to his fucking nonsense, you're giving him food. Check out the links directly below the top paragraph, the bolded one liners. Some of those are posts from a few days ago. Flag it, hide it and move on, he's obviously in pain.

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  3. Re:Fuckin JJ Abrams by camperdave · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a rotating display. It's backwards because the person behind the camera doesn't know which way the logo really goes, so just snapped a shot when it looked nice.

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  4. Re:Why London? by Alioth · · Score: 3, Informative

    The state in the UK is if the unmanned aerial system weighs less than 20kg (basically, like most RC models) the regulation is correspondingly light and commercial operation is allowed without the need for certified systems or to put a G-xxxx registration on the aircraft. However, a permit is still required to operate and the operator must have a qualification to fly the aircraft (effectively a "drone pilot license") if it is to be flown in a populated area.

    Over 20kg and the UAS needs airworthiness approval.

    http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP722.pdf

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  5. Re:Just what we need by Type44Q · · Score: 3, Informative

    I am sure that when we will have effective robots, they will not be used to do anything you think they can do, but rather walk in the streets, tap your shoulder and when you look, they say "Hey mister, did you hear about this great new product

    This is why the time to create ad-blocking solutions is now, not later. For hardware, the bigger the caliber, the better... for software, I recommend fully-jacketed over hollowpoints (maximum penetration). :)