I guess you could remote pilot a water bomber and call it a drone but that seems pointless. With multiple drones using that little water the heat from the fire would evaporate I would guess all of it. You’d get a nice steam cloud at best. Probably fuck up a lot of drones in the process what with the heat they’re flying over and all that steam, neither are great for electronics that aren’t nearly as well protected as on a damn plane and also on a plane aren’t absolutely essential, at least the plane becomes a glider
If you really wanted to maybe a fleet of Predator drones with their payload swapped out for water tanks could work, but it just seems to me that automatic piloting is a solution searching for a problem here. It’s not that we can’t dump the water on the fire it’s that we’re low on water for many reasons and low on firefighters for many more and the rate and size of wildfires are increasing every year for a third bunch of reasons.
That is for sure the biggest thing, why drone? Using drones doesn’t have any benefit let alone the potential downsides. I guess maybe using them for closer recon for where best to send the planes isn’t the worst idea.
I think a decent amount of people think of technology like it works in civ or like Pokémon evolutions, manned plane is lower on the tech chain than drone so when drone is unlocked it replaces all your plane units with drones and drones are better than planes in every category. It seems to be a very linear and fatalistic fantasy. Technology is just applied science and it’s silly to believe that the end result of newer science is gonna replace our already existing solutions to already solved problems. Scientists aren’t working on solved problems.
when drone is unlocked it replaces all your plane units with drones
made me think of Factorio where I tried to swap my first factory to all drones and it was a terrible idea
Satisfactory gets the same idea across interestingly enough. Drones are good for small amounts of finished product cuz they can take it wherever without clogging up your railroads, but other than that they’re kinda useless.
I wanna play some of those kinda games but also my job is incredibly logistics based. Working expo in a kitchen is amazingly similar to playing Papers Please but also cooking. Sorta enjoying solving these kinda things under pressure is why I’m good as hell at it but it means I’m less inclined towards it in my free time
I guess you could remote pilot a water bomber and call it a drone but that seems pointless. With multiple drones using that little water the heat from the fire would evaporate I would guess all of it. You’d get a nice steam cloud at best. Probably fuck up a lot of drones in the process what with the heat they’re flying over and all that steam, neither are great for electronics that aren’t nearly as well protected as on a damn plane and also on a plane aren’t absolutely essential, at least the plane becomes a glider
If you really wanted to maybe a fleet of Predator drones with their payload swapped out for water tanks could work, but it just seems to me that automatic piloting is a solution searching for a problem here. It’s not that we can’t dump the water on the fire it’s that we’re low on water for many reasons and low on firefighters for many more and the rate and size of wildfires are increasing every year for a third bunch of reasons.
That is for sure the biggest thing, why drone? Using drones doesn’t have any benefit let alone the potential downsides. I guess maybe using them for closer recon for where best to send the planes isn’t the worst idea.
I think a decent amount of people think of technology like it works in civ or like Pokémon evolutions, manned plane is lower on the tech chain than drone so when drone is unlocked it replaces all your plane units with drones and drones are better than planes in every category. It seems to be a very linear and fatalistic fantasy. Technology is just applied science and it’s silly to believe that the end result of newer science is gonna replace our already existing solutions to already solved problems. Scientists aren’t working on solved problems.
made me think of Factorio where I tried to swap my first factory to all drones and it was a terrible idea
Satisfactory gets the same idea across interestingly enough. Drones are good for small amounts of finished product cuz they can take it wherever without clogging up your railroads, but other than that they’re kinda useless.
I wanna play some of those kinda games but also my job is incredibly logistics based. Working expo in a kitchen is amazingly similar to playing Papers Please but also cooking. Sorta enjoying solving these kinda things under pressure is why I’m good as hell at it but it means I’m less inclined towards it in my free time