500 Intel Drones To Replace Fireworks Above Travis Air Force Base For Fourth of July (techcrunch.com)

The Fourth of July is a little different today at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. From a report: Instead of fireworks, 500 Intel Shooting Star drones will take to the sky to perform an aerial routine in honor of the holiday and the base's 75th anniversary. These are the same drones that preformed at Disney World, the Super Bowl and the Olympics. One person controls the fleet of drones thanks to a sophisticated control platform that pre-plans the route of each drone. Intel engineers told me that the system can control an unlimited amount of drones. In the version I saw, the drones used GPS to stay in place and the drones lacked any collision detection sensors.

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Perfect

[Jason1729]

This perfectly sums up the modern american nanny state. Take away something we've enjoyed for generations, replace it with an amazingly crappy knockoff that's "safer" while destroying the entire spirit to the point where it's completely pointless.

And emphasize how great it is for a private company.

I don't know who will be watching these glorified LED throwies, but I'll be out watching fireworks tonight. At least as long as I still can in the land of the free and the home of the brave.