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Drone Crashes, Missing Champion Skier By Inches (cnn.com)
HughPickens.com writes: NBC reports that defending World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher, who won silver in the slalom at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, had a lucky escape after he narrowly avoided being hit by a falling drone. Hirscher was on his second run in a World Cup slalom race at Madonna di Campiglio in Italy when a remote-controlled drone with a mounted camera slammed down on the piste inches behind him. "This is horrible," Hirscher said after the event. "This can never happen again. This can be a serious injury." The International Ski Federation (FIS) released a statement on its website apologizing for the "unfortunate accident." But some saw the lighter side announcing that the drone wars had shifted to the ski slopes. "Man, I'd watch a lot more winter sports if this was a standard part of the game," tweeted Marc Andreessen. The company responsible for the drone, sports marketing agency Infront, said its initial investigation "indicates a malfunction of the drone." "The most likely reason is a strong and unforeseen interference on the operating frequency, leading to limited operability," Infront said in a statement. "The pilot followed the official security procedure, purposely flying the drone as close as possible to the ground before releasing it. The aim was to destroy the drone, in order to prevent it from losing control."
That champion skier was headed downhill anyways.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Knowing several drone owners, I doubt a drone could hit that small of a target.
You are welcome on my lawn.
The only way to stop a bad guy with skis and spandex pants is a good guy with a drone.
You are welcome on my lawn.
1) The dog. It will have to come out of his daily allowance of kibbles and bits. I am not sure what the current value of kibble is but as I understand it is 8 bits to the dollar.
2) The child. The smart ones will not run into spinning propellers. The strong ones may survive. Basically this will serve to weed out the weak and stupid children, leading to a golden age for mankind.
3) Such an event will cause Amazon to lose money instead of make a profit. Jeff Bezos will point out that during the dot com boom, many people were investing in companies that were losing money because that is a sign they are growing. Amazon then receives record investment money and their stock price soars.
4) I would imagine that the teenager would then high five his friends, repeatedly say "that was awesome" and eventually find some other distraction.
5) Who cares? Tesla coils are awesome!
6) Allowing Amazon to come into the low value area, buy up all the homes to build a new distribution center and begin offering "Amazon Super Prime" services to the rich people in the next county, including 1 hour delivery by person. They will use the newly homeless people in the poor county as their labor supply.
7) Hopefully he is welding a Tesla Coil because that would be awesome.
8) Now I have a drone and a Tesla Coil! How awesome is that?