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This is a half bird feeder half flying drone.
Squirrel enters to steal a bird seed snack and is then
humanely
automatically relocated to a far off distant location away
from
your bird feeder and house. Upon squirrel release the drone
feeder returns home.
Because squirrels are so clever
the will have a fighting
chance
as there will be located inside of the bird feeder cage in
which
they are trapped two small squirrel size levers that are in
fact
override controls.
These controls would allow an advanced squirrel the
opportunity to take control of the aircraft and actively
determine its flightpath and speed.
I believe that this system allows for three potential
outcomes
A. thieving squirrel is captured and force-ably relocated
B. clever thieving squirrel discovers that he can control the
aircraft and meets a tragic ending on a power line or fiery
crash.
C. clever thieving squirrel is able to figure out and master
the
controls of the aircraft thus enabling an evolution of sorts -
technology enabled flying squirrels -
How excellent would outcome C be?
The Heechee Saga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee
[normzone, Mar 16 2015]
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The iving squirrel might be excellent enough to learn the i before e thing. |
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In Xanadu, did FrackisKhan |
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A squirrel pleasure drone decree |
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Where Ralph, the squirrel sized lever ran |
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Through outcomes measureless by man |
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How do you get the bird-parts out of the drone
rotors? |
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Please make an armadillo model, too. (Would be okay if that
one isn't humane). |
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I love squirrels and flying squirrels, in particular. We had one
fly in from the chimney once, and it was very cool. It wasn't
Rocky though. |
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Bullwinkle: "Boy you really don't know what's inside a person
till you marry them." |
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Rocky: "Well at least no one was hurt." |
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A direct quote from Rocky J. himself. |
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//B. clever thieving squirrel discovers that he can
control the aircraft and meets a tragic ending on a
power line or fiery crash.// |
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Although tragic, it wouldn't be without its humorous
elements. |
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// on a power line or fiery crash // |
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// How do you get the bird-parts out of the drone rotors? // |
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How do you get the squirrel into the drone rotors? |
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[/] for failing to explain how the tree-rat is killed. |
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Ok, am I the only one reminded of the
scene in Star Wars ROTJ where the
ewok commandeers a speeder bike? |
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D. Poor squirel kits starve to death because the evil
[vfrackis] kidnapped mommy. At some point Secret Squirrel
gets involved, and there are lasers and people strapped to
tables. |
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There is a science fiction story this brings to mind. Humans discover a bunch of very old alien ships (off Jupiter?) and figure out how get inside and to set them off. People ride and get to claim whatever they find. Some blow up. Some trips are so long people starve. Some people profit gloriously. |
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Odd - I just read that book, courtesy of my local library. Was it a Frederik Pohl book? |
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How did we get from there to here ? That is just too weird. I read a lot, but how did [bungston] and [vfrackis] get access to my reading list ? |
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You left your tinfoil hat off, and they read your thoughts (if any) with a CIA Brane Ray. |
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I've heard of the Merchants of Venus but never got
around to reading it. |
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Pffft, Flying squirrels. As if. [+] |
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I wonder what other emergent behaviors we could discover
& exploit like this? Can we put obsolete devices in sewers,
instead of landfills, & thus get the rats addicted to Candy
Crush so they lose the will to survive? |
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I'm not sure
I didn't consider that. |
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I'm pretty sure you didn't. |
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[Sophocles], Hi stranger, make that Bejeweled, and I'd agree. |
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I agree Rocky and Bull Winkle were the first. |
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