A drone was filmed crashing into Seattle's Space Needle viewing platform on New Year's Eve, where pyrotechnics were being assembled:
Video footage confirms that a drone aircraft flew directly at and crashed into the Space Needle's utmost viewing platform on New Year's Eve. The craft, which was subsequently recovered by the staff, was handed over to the Seattle Police Department on Tuesday.
Space Needle representative Dave Mandapat has provided Ars Technica video recovered from the drone, a camera-mounted DJI Inspire 1. The three-minute clip, which includes a few fade-to-black edits, shows the perspective of a craft ascending from an area east of the Seattle Center district (without identifying footage of a takeoff or origin point), then hovering above and around the Space Needle's top platform while pyrotechnic experts arranged and worked on the tower's annual New Year's fireworks show.
Roughly two minutes into the video, the drone shifts perspective to aim its camera view directly at the tower's topmost platform, at which point it apparently flies at an incredibly high speed until ramming into a spotlight. The collision took place mere feet away from both the pyrotechnic experts and their various arrays of electronics and fireworks equipment.
It's time for another round of FAA restrictions!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @10:17PM
Remember rule 3 of the Australia Project. "Nothing is anonymous."
That's right, Manna fans. Your stupid rules will be used against you.
Just like rule 7 says. "Obey the rules."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @03:02AM
Don't forget the super-creepy (besides the super, super creepy neck implant thing) omniscient AI that determines who else can view the last time you had sex. Seems like it took the whole "if men were ruled by angels" thing and deux-ex-machina'd an angel to rule men.
On the other hand, free sex changes! This is going to be one of those fortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, unfortunately things. Anyhoo, completely off topic.