Food: Farming: System
Flying Cows   (+6)  [vote for, against]
Dairy, fertilizer, lawncare all in one : a low footprint, just-in-time, sub/urban business model.

Fitted with the latest in drone technology, the bovines feed, rest and weather on lawns, fields and parks that need agrazing - incidently fertilizing same - and show up at customers' doors (or windows) to provide fresh-from-the-source dairy, on demand.

Aerial routing is along green corridors when possible, to minimize "odd weather we're having, this morning" incidents. Notwithstanding a long list of similar strictures, and the demands on their time, the cows are free to amble and buzz about, autonomously.
-- FlyingToaster, Jul 25 2016

Porton's "Flying Cow" https://books.googl...ng%20cow%22&f=false
Not very nice. [8th of 7, Jul 25 2016]

// ... green corridors... //

uh... hark.
-- lurch, Jul 25 2016


Geese could achieve much the same result, although they are notoriously difficult to milk.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 25 2016


There is prior art in this field. In the 1930's, Porton Down developed a device known as the "Flying Cow" for aerial spraying of thickened HS (Hun Stuff, Mustard gas) against ground troops.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 25 2016


We tried military applications. The barbecues tended to give away positions.

That book characterizes some of Porton Down's war efforts as "unsporting".

//Geese could achieve the same result// not with the same degree of elegance, though. Unless we gave them roller skates.
-- FlyingToaster, Jul 25 2016



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