1842: Anti-Drone Eagles

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Anti-Drone Eagles

Title text: It's cool, it's totally ethical--they're all programmed to hunt whichever bird of prey is most numerous at the moment, so they leave the endangered ones alone until near the end.

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(Cueball, Black hat and Megan are standing.)

Cueball: Everyone loves these eagles that take down drones, but ... I dunno.

Megan: You gotta admit, it's pretty cool.

(Close-up on Cueball's face)

Cueball: Yeah, but ... training rare animals to hurl themselves at whirling machinery can only get us so far, you know?

(Regular shot)

Cueball: At some point, it's like releasing police dogs onto highways to attack speeding motorcycles.

Megan: Also cool, but I see your point.

Black Hat: Plus, I just finished my autonomous drone that hunts eagles.

Cueball: Man, you are an entirely separate class of problem.

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Discussion

Okay... I actually had an out loud laugh at the "citation needed" ... "and compares it to using police dogs for traffic control, which people would generally frown upon.[citation needed]" 141.101.98.250 06:25, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

As I said a few weeks ago, this site gets the best "citation needed"s, I swear someone looks for places to put them with the best comedic value. LOL! One of my faves was when there was a "citation needed" on the statement that a baby would be unable to plan and implement a jewel heist. :) There was another good one a couple of weeks ago, where I made the comment, but I forget what. - NiceGuy1 108.162.219.16 07:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. NiceGuy1 (talk) 06:02, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Got it! 1822, there's a "citation needed" on the statement that 5 million years is longer than the lifespan of a human. :) - NiceGuy1 108.162.219.16 08:14, 26 May 2017 (UTC) So's this! NiceGuy1 (talk) 06:02, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

180: Canada "[...] Canada is part of reality(citation needed)" Loving it :) -- Unkn0wnCat (talk) 13:40, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Oh man, sometimes I'm Black Hat, sometimes I'm Cueball, but somehow Randall is reading my mind three times a week. May the algorithm protect him. (I'm confused: My signature already looks like a bunch of "~~"... Now what?) 162.158.75.16 08:42, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

EXACT. SAME. HERE. Randall is psychic and does the kind of stuff that is SO AWESOME (or funny) that his fanbase should be 3 times its size. That's right, Jacky720 just signed this (talk | contribs) 11:43, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Damn it, who linked to tvtropes? 172.68.143.216 17:02, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Proposing a domain-wide feature here: a little popup tooltip that displays a warning everytime you hover your mouse over a tv-tropes link. Something on the lines of "Warning! See 609: Tab Explosion. Hold CTRL while clicking on the link to continue. You have been warned." Actually, make that a standard plugin in every browser. 162.158.90.162 19:05, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

I added a mouse-over warning text, which works when you use the {{tvtropes}} template. Give it a try! _{--Nialpxe, 2017. (Arguments welcome)}

Also, who says "ineffective" when it has been implemented? I really want to delete that paragraph, but I would like some support. That's right, Jacky720 just signed this (talk | contribs) 18:42, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

I concur. It might be potentially wasteful, but it seems to be working effectively where it has been tried. _{--Nialpxe, 2017. (Arguments welcome)}

This is not about the comic, directly anyway, but it occurred to me that there are hundreds of millions of kilowatt level magnetrons floating around in microwave ovens everywhere. If one of these was coupled to a suitably narrow angle horn antenna, could anybody offer a guess of over what kind of range could this setup fry the electronics in a drone? (!) Just wondering. ExternalMonolog (talk) 03:15, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

The TV show Scorpion did something along those lines, where they found a drug cartel was using drones to smuggle drugs and money back and forth across a border, they jury-rigged a "gun" to zap the drones with something to scramble them and knock them out of the sky. If that's at all realistic, seems far more effective and humane than this eagle thing. (From your description, they might have done exactly that). Now I'm just imagining such secure locations having these "guns" set up as automatic turrets, LOL! - NiceGuy1 108.162.219.16 21:55, 29 May 2017 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. NiceGuy1 (talk) 06:02, 13 June 2017 (UTC)