Thursday 11 August 2005

Army of the Night

As part of a discussion about how to provide wide-coverage wireless broadband to the city of Brisbane, we went through the following iterations:
- Solar-powered autonomous planes circling the city
- The same planes with batteries to keep flying at night: "[lead] acid-filled planes"
- Acid-filled planes armed with lasers to take out birds that might befoul the solar panels (for longer guaranteed uptime)
- Acid-filled planes armed with lasers controlled by hawk brains to get that hunting instinct for free: "acid-filled cyborg hawks hunting pigeons"

Mokalus of Borg

PS - By then, the wireless broadband portion of the design was secondary.
PPS - This happens more often than I care to admit.

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