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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, @10:34PM
...and should have a bunch of liability insurance.
What is biggest deterrent on actions in today's world?
Criminal sanctions? Maybe.
Civil $ liabilities? Yep, for most people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @10:40PM
No prob dood, I'll just put the fine on my credit card and add it to my student loan debt. Bail me out, bankruptcy.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Thursday January 12 2017, @10:55PM
Last I heard bankruptcy does not void student loan debt. Am I wrong?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Thursday January 12 2017, @11:06PM
You are correct. Designed to prevent exactly this situation.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 12 2017, @11:15PM
They realized just about every student would take this route, what a goddamn scam!! While loans can be important I think we should limit interest rates to 5%, that would decrease all the CC spam since profit margins wouldn't be so insane, and it would eliminate the borderline criminal contracts people get duped into. Oh, and remove late payment fees. The interest they get from a continued balance is enough >:|
Do we frown on emojiis here? Is that opening the door to all the hipster douches which probably 1/2 of us already are?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @12:02AM
https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=emoji&author=&sort=1&op=stories [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 13 2017, @04:32AM
Nope, it's designed to ensure that students have access to loans because the taxpayers are too cheap and short-sighted to properly fund education. We'd have more than enough money to cover the cost of college for all college age students if we'd stop giving money to people who already have tons of it or stopped dropping bombs on brown people.