Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky

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 ...

[Psion]

All I can say is, "Bad Robots!"

English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ?

[1u3hr]

provided the aircrafts.

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

Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ?

[1u3hr]

PS: TFA had it correct:

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

Some moron thought he'd "correct" it.

Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ?

[1u3hr]

PS2: And it's not the "Star Trek logo", which consists of the stylized words "STAR TREK", but the Starfleet arrowhead emblem.

Re:English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It ?

[SternisheFan]

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

"You must go now. For the good of the city!"

LED Lights?

[fustakrakich]

Don't try this in Boston

Re:LED Lights?

[slick7]

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.

Drone servers

[game kid]

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.

Fuckin JJ Abrams

[Starfleet Command]

Figures...the emblem is backwards.

Re:Fuckin JJ Abrams

[anom]

Not from the other side :)

Re:But do the drones support host files?

[Cenan]

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.

Just what we need

[houghi]

Just what we need. More advertisement. We do not have enough of it it, so please fill the sky with it.

We all saw the formation flying quads before in lab environment and what do they decide to do with this knowledge? Advertisement!
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. ..."
It will then follow you around till you placed an order. At that moment the next one comes along.

In the future, when a permanent smog

[QilessQi]

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.

Re:The Only Interest.....

[cyborg_zx]

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

Re:Just wondering...

[tehcyder]

No one cares about Dr. Who

No offence, but go fuck yourself with a cricket bat.