Two Words: Beer Drones.
Yep. Beer drones will be delivering frosty brews to festival goers in South Africa this August:
During August's OppiKoppi Music Festival, attendees can order beers from their phones to be delivered the event's District 9 campsite. The beer-equipped drones will swoop down and deliver beer via parachute to the appropriate customer, as explained in the video above. The organizers say the beer drones are now hand-guided, but in the future they'll fly on a GPS grid.
Nit-pickers are worried about stuff like beaning would-be drinkers, parachute failure, and the targeting problems in a dense crowd. But you gotta start somewhere, right?
More food drone blogging from Reason: these short items about the Tacocopter and Burrito Bomber, both of which are pipe dreams until the Federal Aviation Administration starts issuing final regulations for commercial use of drones in U.S. airspace in 2015.
And then there are the drones that rain down death rather than deliciousness.
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Hellfire Belgian Ale, of course.
Also, I can't see anything going wrong when you parachute a beer that someone paid for into a crowd.
Fat Tire.
what about hot girls?
With all that nitrogen in the atmosphere, will the parachutes work?
We must close the hydrogen gap!!
Falling through the carbon dioxide is going to make the beer warm. Not seeing the upside to this.
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The atmosphere is, like, 80% nitrogen already.
Or did you mean *nitrous*?
District 9 campsite
Fuckin' prawns....
Fookin*
Can I have a drone come pick up and remove a 16 oz. cup of urine? If i'm in the middle of a crowd at a huge rock festival, I don't want to have to walk to the edges to get to the port-a-potty. I might miss Jet Black Camaro's set!
After the concert, this guy will be doing crowd dispersal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17lmeOfpxVU
That was kind of insane. kind of nerdy, too.
Nit-pickers are worried about stuff like beaning would-be drinkers, parachute failure, and the targeting problems in a dense crowd.
Of course, that's not a concern with military drones.
This. It's sad that the same people who are worried about where we drop beer likely don't give two shits where we drop high explosives.
Getting bombed by drone. Why don't they try this in Pakistan?
They hate us for our beer.
New protest slogan-"Drop Beers Not Bombs".
"bombers not bombs".
This is still inferior to my space beer idea. Bombers from God.
I thought you were in the industry. Just how do you propose non-frictive deceleration that works well enough not to superheat my beer?
Wait, you want it not superheated? That wasn't part of the deal!
Anyway, the answer, as it always is, is either space elevator or big ass rockets.
Ablation motherfucker!
Do you think meteorites are *hot* when they strike?
They should use those parachutes you get in gumball machines w/ the little plastic army man attached. Those never failed.
So, when can we start having weed delivered by drones?
Look on the Silk Road - someone is probably already doing it.
Finally, an acceptable and beneficial use for drones.....