The Amazing Drone Show

16/07/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYU7JMqp3o

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11/03/2023

Are these flying fish?

11/02/2023

Translated by Babel Fin 7: "We have taken this page over. Do what we want. Or else!"

10/02/2023

10/02/2023

06/02/2023

I'd race to that.

04/02/2023

Things to do with your weekend

02/02/2023

Chiberia in full effect
Tom Skilling ABC7 The Weather Channel Earth Enjoy Illinois

01/02/2023

30/01/2023

This species of fungus, Ophiocordyceps, is known for using "mind control" on insect hosts. Humans, however, are immune.

30/01/2023

"On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams

28/01/2023

The roots of belief.

28/01/2023

This looks pretty wild!

https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/01/moonbikes-land-at-boyne-mountain-first-electric-snowbike-fleet-to-roll-at-a-midwest-resort.html?utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

MoonBikes are specially designed to be a quick - and quiet - ride through the snow.

28/01/2023

A cartoon by Felipe Galindo.

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27/01/2023

It takes a lot of courage to fight biases and oppressive regimes, but it takes even greater courage to admit ignorance and venture into the unknown. Secular education teaches us that if we don’t know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of acknowledging our ignorance and looking for new evidence. Even if we think we know something, we shouldn’t be afraid of doubting our opinions and checking ourselves again. Many people are afraid of the unknown, and want clear-cut answers for every question. Fear of the unknown can paralyse us more than any tyrant. People throughout history worried that unless we put all our faith in some set of absolute answers, human society will crumble. In fact, modern history has demonstrated that a society of courageous people willing to admit ignorance and raise difficult questions is usually not just more prosperous but also more peaceful than societies in which everyone must unquestioningly accept a single answer. People afraid of losing their truth tend to be more violent than people who are used to looking at the world from several different viewpoints. Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question. ~Yuval Noah Harari

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25/01/2023

23/01/2023

Is it still great to be alive?

What is my inheritance? What have my ancestors left for me? They have left those voices in the dark that ask questions, my own voices in the middle of the night when the mind spins slightly off its axis and wobbles like a spinning top about to roll over on its side.
Is it still great to be alive? A delicate question subject to the eloquence of the ages.

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect that makes calamity of so long a life.”

And yet we can say it out loud.

It’s great to be alive.

Affirmation is so much easier in a convertible with the top down.
Celebration comes naturally in the robustness of our younger years.
Optimism is a dish best served with extra appetizers to share.
Great to be alive.

How does this phrase sound to the people living on the fringes?
Living on the street. People who survive against all odds.
What is so great about alive?

Is it still great to be alive?
This question stirs the guilt we feel when we attempt to rejoice among the ruins of civilization.
So better to joke about it.
Better to sing about it.

For the thoughtful, this is an awkward question.
Some have said that It’s great to be alive is not something they would ordinarily say.
Me either. But these are not ordinary times. And they never were.

Are we shaken from our brighter purpose by the unspooling tragedies that start as a ten word tweet and grow into a news story with full team coverage and a regenerating youtube video? Sadness that proliferates like the head of the Hydra.
These events that amplify our own misery and doubt.

When the noted social critic Frank Zappa stood on a stage to announce that it is great to be alive, it might have seemed sarcastic.

“It’s so f$%&*g great to be alive is what the theme of our show is tonight, boys and girls. And I want to tell you, if there is anybody here who doesn’t believe that it is f$%&*g great to be alive, I wish they would go now because this show will bring them down so much."

Life is so much clearer with a guitar in your arms.
But the truly cynical observer will remind us that it is always more poetic to reject life when you’re not fighting for your own. If it’s only pretty good to be alive, we should wonder at the young and the old who struggle to breathe.

Some of us are tempted to give up. Instinct is strong but not unshakeable.

In the absence of certitude, we make choices. I’ve made mine.
Is it still great to be alive?
Actually, no.

It’s f$%&*g great to be alive.

22/01/2023

Puck
"Opening of the Panama Canal
At Which Distant Day Ocean Navigation Will Be A Trifle Out Of Date"

22/01/2023

Here clearly were the seeds of the modern world. What prevented them from taking root and flourishing? Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in Alexandria? I cannot give you a simple answer. But I do know this: there is no record, in the entire history of the Library, that any of its illustrious scientists and scholars ever seriously challenged the political, economic and religious assumptions of their society. The permanence of the stars was questioned; the justice of slavery was not. Science and learning in general were the preserve of a privileged few. The vast population of the city had not the vaguest notion of the great discoveries taking place within the Library. New findings were not explained or popularized. The research benefited them little. Discoveries in mechanics and steam technology were applied mainly to the perfection of weapons, the encouragement of superstition, the amusement of kings. The scientists never grasped the potential of machines to free people. The great intellectual achievements of antiquity had few immediate practical applications. Science never captured the imagination of the multitude. There was no counterbalance to stagnation, to pessimism, to the most abject surrenders to mysticism. When, at long last, the mob came to burn the Library down, there was nobody to stop them.

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

22/01/2023

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17/01/2023

Post Cereal Plant. The birthplace of fruity pebbles.
If you can smell this picture, you might be from Battle Creek.
Battle Creek IS Beautiful.

13/01/2023

12/01/2023

“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous hominids who roamed the earth, they could choke on food. That may seem a trifling point, but the slight evolutionary change that pushed man's larynx deeper into his throat, and thus made choking a possibility, also brought with it the possibility of sophisticated, well articulated speech.

Other mammals have no contact between their air passages and esophagi. They can breathe and swallow at the same time, and there is no possibility of food going down the wrong way. But with Homo sapiens food and drink must pass over the larynx on the way to the gullet and thus there is a constant risk that some will be inadvertently inhaled. In modern humans, the lowered larynx isn't in position from birth. It descends sometime between the ages of three and five months - curiously, the precise period when babies are likely to suffer from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. At all events, the descended larynx explains why you can speak and your dog cannot.”

― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

12/01/2023

Drones are just clones under mind control... Know what I mean?

21/01/2020

E1 Dronie Challenge: Meet Three Epic Drone Pilots!

Can you explain how they did this? These are crazy!

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We're just getting started. You can help us create something cool with drone pilots from around the world.

In this Episode:
Alex Dronez
https://www.facebook.com/AP-Dronez-1008605942678115/
Visit this page to see some more awesome footage.

Arnel Agustin
A master of the dronie!
Dronhey
Dronhey
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMKnsebIttp1IKmPJyQRi6w

Russell Spurlock
Venice Drones
Russell is an amazing filmmaker and composer.
www.venicedrones.com
Venice Drones
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www.russellspurlock.com