Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks agoOr you could I dunno, use a drone? What benefit is there to use a pigeon for any of this? The issue isn’t the payload it’s the platform.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sure, fine. At no point was I making any argument for or against this technology. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, maybe it’s a waste of time.
The only argument I’m making here is that there’s nothing far fetched about a pigeon flying over a kilometer, that’s totally normal. I’m pretty confident in this because I have first hand evidence that birds are actually really good at flying, and sometimes they fly very long distances.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
So no benefit for using a pigeon.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did you read my comment? My entire point was essentially that I don’t care. I’m not weighing in on that.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Happy we agree there’s no material benefit to using live animals to do an imperfect job of what cheap drones are already doing.