[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30982937[/url]
[quote]A flying device triggered a security alert when it landed in the grounds of the White House, a US official says.
The US Secret Service said a "quad copter" - a small machine powered by four rotor blades - had been found. An investigation has been launched.
President Barack Obama and the First Lady are currently on a visit to India.[/quote]
Quad copters are brilliant things.
Just a member of newly-discovered species [I]quadrella helicopterus[/I], nothing to freak out over.
I'm amazed how lax the security at the whitehouse is sometimes. I mean I'm sure this one was harmless but it'd be really easy to attach some kind of explosive to a flying RC vehicle quadcopter, helicopter, or plane. Seriously hope nobody fucks around with stuff like that though because it'll end up creating laws that ruin it for everybody else
[QUOTE=Elspin;47021096]I'm amazed how lax the security at the whitehouse is sometimes. I mean I'm sure this one was harmless but it'd be really easy to attach some kind of explosive to a flying RC vehicle quadcopter, helicopter, or plane. Seriously hope nobody fucks around with stuff like that though because it'll end up creating laws that ruin it for everybody else[/QUOTE]
or something radioactive or the like.
[QUOTE=FetusFondler;47020810]Quad copters are brilliant things.[/QUOTE]
They are, but people doing things like this is going to ruin it for the rest of us.
[QUOTE=Elspin;47021096]I'm amazed how lax the security at the whitehouse is sometimes. I mean I'm sure this one was harmless but it'd be really easy to attach some kind of explosive to a flying RC vehicle quadcopter, helicopter, or plane. Seriously hope nobody fucks around with stuff like that though because it'll end up creating laws that ruin it for everybody else[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't they already have done so? RC Helicopters have been a thing for decades.
[QUOTE=FetusFondler;47021213]Wouldn't they already have done so? RC Helicopters have been a thing for decades.[/QUOTE]
You read my mind. I wonder what their strategy for these things are.
I wonder what their strategy for a small trebuchet a few blocks away is...
why dont they just have like a swarm of counter-quadcopters fly around and fuck up any foreign flying object near the whitehouse?
[QUOTE=Renegade Master;47021413]why dont they just have like a swarm of counter-quadcopters fly around and fuck up any foreign flying object near the whitehouse?[/QUOTE]
And then a bird flies near the lawn and gets mutilated by fifty quadcopters
The FAA is already going after FPV flying, if idiots keep this shit up its going to ruin the hobby for everyone else. The government rarely responds to these types of things with a reasonable response.
[QUOTE=FetusFondler;47021213]Wouldn't they already have done so? RC Helicopters have been a thing for decades.[/QUOTE]
True, but the biggest issue now is that RC aircraft are beginning to become far more sophisticated than their predecessors. I remember when flying an RC helicopter was sometimes rage inducing as you needed very skilled control over the aircraft to avoid crashing into the ground and breaking everything. Now quads and other aircraft come equipped with gyros at the very least to auto stabilize, with more expensive versions equipped with accelerometers, GPS locking, and auto pilot software.
[QUOTE=QwertySecond;47021308]You read my mind. I wonder what their strategy for these things are.
I wonder what their strategy for a small trebuchet a few blocks away is...[/QUOTE]
They DO have AA missile systems on the roof.
[QUOTE=Reviized;47021488]The FAA is already going after FPV flying, if idiots keep this shit up its going to ruin the hobby for everyone else. The government rarely responds to these types of things with a reasonable response.
True, but the biggest issue now is that RC aircraft are beginning to become far more sophisticated than their predecessors. I remember when flying an RC helicopter was sometimes rage inducing as you needed very skilled control over the aircraft to avoid crashing into the ground and breaking everything. Now quads and other aircraft come equipped with gyros at the very least to auto stabilize, with more expensive versions equipped with accelerometers, GPS locking, and auto pilot software.[/QUOTE]
Problem is, FPV flying is safer then line of sight, as instead of looking at a tiny dot wondering what direction its pointing, you can see where you're going
[QUOTE=FetusFondler;47021213]Wouldn't they already have done so? RC Helicopters have been a thing for decades.[/QUOTE]
The thing is, RC airplanes in the minds of the people who make the laws are still dinky foam things that can't fly for more than 15 minutes in the pilot's visual range (helicopters even more so because they can't glide to save power, they have to constantly hold themselves up). Meanwhile you can fly an RC plane for 80 kilometres on a single charge now using first person video equipment and solar panel covered wings, and carry enough weight to put something really dangerous on it.
[QUOTE=Elspin;47021096]I'm amazed how lax the security at the whitehouse is sometimes. I mean I'm sure this one was harmless but it'd be really easy to attach some kind of explosive to a flying RC vehicle quadcopter, helicopter, or plane. Seriously hope nobody fucks around with stuff like that though because it'll end up creating laws that ruin it for everybody else[/QUOTE]
Honestly, we shouldn't be afraid of the delivery method. We should be afraid of the explosives or weapons used to commit terrorist attacks. Timothy mcveigh loaded a truck full of fertilizers and vaporized a building. Are we watching trucks? no, we're watching people who buy lots of fertilizer.
The best way to prevent a dude from attaching explosives to a drone and flying it over the white house is to prevent people from buying/making explosives in the first place by carefully watching who buys what materials that are commonly used for bombs.
Of course, it's extremely easy to commit a terrorist attack with just a gun. Buying a gun is extremely easy and if some nutjob wants to go kill a bunch of people in the name of allah/jesus/small government, there's virtually nothing to stop them in a lot of states. Drones are the LEAST of our worries
[QUOTE=DoritoBandit;47021624]Honestly, we shouldn't be afraid of the delivery method. We should be afraid of the explosives or weapons used to commit terrorist attacks. Timothy mcveigh loaded a truck full of fertilizers and vaporized a building. Are we watching trucks? no, we're watching people who buy lots of fertilizer.
The best way to prevent a dude from attaching explosives to a drone and flying it over the white house is to prevent people from buying/making explosives in the first place by carefully watching who buys what materials that are commonly used for bombs.
Of course, it's extremely easy to commit a terrorist attack with just a gun. Buying a gun is extremely easy and if some nutjob wants to go kill a bunch of people in the name of allah/jesus/small government, there's virtually nothing to stop them in a lot of states. Drones are the LEAST of our worries[/QUOTE]
Dude you went full 1984 on me.
[QUOTE=cucumber;47021702]Dude you went full 1984 on me.[/QUOTE]
that's what we do now. We watch people who buy lots of pseudofed, codeine is prescription only, we watch people who buy all kinds of chemicals and artificial fertilizers. There's nothing wrong with that, IMO. Preventing people from making meth labs and bombs that can vaporize buildings and making sure psychopaths and criminals don't have guns is a good decision if you're in the "preventing your people from being murdered by nutjobs" business (i.e: the government)
[QUOTE=darunner;47021535]They DO have AA missile systems on the roof.[/QUOTE]
And snipers.
A teacher I used to have worked for the Bush administration, and I'm not sure of the situation now, but he told me how most of the builds around the lawn are vacant, they had snipers in most of them and on the whitehouse, there were AA weapons on the roof, as well as mortar and anti tank weapons.
[quote]President Barack Obama and the First Lady are currently on a visit to India.[/quote]
Oh, thank God. Michelle's hair is safe from getting tangled in the rotors.
[QUOTE=FetusFondler;47020810]Quad copters are brilliant things.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va2hQhweeTE[/media]
I'm not the only person that finds these things terrifying, am I?
I'm probably wrong, but couldn't any attempted attack by one of these things be thwarted by a dude sitting around with a shotgun who was pretty good at clay pigeon shooting?
[QUOTE=Camundongo;47024258]I'm probably wrong, but couldn't any attempted attack by one of these things be thwarted by a dude sitting around with a shotgun who was pretty good at clay pigeon shooting?[/QUOTE]The Secret Service keeps an old Scottish gamekeeper on the lawn just in case.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;47024553]this does not sound like i expected it to
"woooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"[/QUOTE]
Sure, it sounds hilarious now, but just you wait until there's a cloud of a thousand drones going "WOOOOO" all at once and carpet bombing you with weapons grade li-on batteries
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;47024330]The Secret Service keeps an old Scottish gamekeeper on the lawn just in case.[/QUOTE]
i can see it now
ISIS releases a swarm of bomb-carrying quadcopters onto the white house. the secret service is at a loss: none of them can shoot into the sky. a harried agent bursts into biden's office.
"mr vice president, the terrorists have found our weakness, we need your authorization for your counter-measures."
a smile creeps across biden's face. "i've been waiting for this day ever since i came into office."
he reaches under his desk, pulls out a set of bagpipes, and lets the secret authorization tone ring through the air
[video=youtube;vBKBI7DOLHA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKBI7DOLHA[/video]
the music plays on loudspeakers all across DC as thousands of scotsmen begin to congregate on the front lawn. in an instant, lead and the smell of haggis fills the air. millions of dollars of quadcopters, explosives, and shotgun shells go up in smoke, but it works. ISIS has been defeated, the vice-president is saved, and DC is no longer under attack. as a thanks for saving his life, biden liberates scotland from their oppressors under the one condition that they let him sell counterfeit coach bags there.
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;47024987]i can see it now
ISIS releases a swarm of bomb-carrying quadcopters onto the white house. the secret service is at a loss: none of them can shoot into the sky. a harried agent bursts into biden's office.
"mr vice president, the terrorists have found our weakness, we need your authorization for your counter-measures."
a smile creeps across biden's face. "i've been waiting for this day ever since i came into office."
he reaches under his desk, pulls out a set of bagpipes, and lets the secret authorization tone ring through the air
[video=youtube;vBKBI7DOLHA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBKBI7DOLHA[/video]
the music plays on loudspeakers all across DC as thousands of scotsmen begin to congregate on the front lawn. in an instant, lead and the smell of haggis fills the air. millions of dollars of quadcopters, explosives, and shotgun shells go up in smoke, but it works. ISIS has been defeated, the vice-president is saved, and DC is no longer under attack. as a thanks for saving his life, biden liberates scotland from their oppressors under the one condition that they let him sell counterfeit coach bags there.[/QUOTE]
If it's Biden we're talking about all he needs is a double barrel, the man said so himself.
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;47025036]If it's Biden we're talking about all he needs is a double barrel, the man said so himself.[/QUOTE]
i heavily doubt he would not be out there, just as much as i heavily doubt that biden would pass up any chance to make everyone in DC listen to him play bagpipes, so it is the best of both worlds to him
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