Do you think I would get expelled from my university for rigging drones to drop water balloons to raise awareness of the ongoing development of autonomous weapon systems and lingering munitions? I'm pretty sure I could do it for cheap in a single week alone in my dorm room (I'm studying comp sci and already experienced with engineering).
My lower bound for success would be a drone which simply drops water balloons. The upper bound would be autonomous reloading and image detection to identify targets (people's heads)
>Do you think I would get expelled
Yes, you don't raise awareness by being an ass
Worked well for BLM folx
Well do you have a few shill farms and Russian secret service supporting you?
did it actually tho?
Yes. A local tard git expelled and fined for brandishing an airsoft pistol to show how easy bringing a gun to a lecture would be.
You'd surely have an easier time not getting in trouble if you don't actually hit people, and instead drop them close enough to be visible but not close enough to hit/splash anyone.
It would be even safer for you to use a safer payload, such as a pinecone with a note on the subject fixed to it somehow, or simply using a paper airplane with the info printed on it, dropped pointing down towards the ground (this also makes the littering aspect slightly less grievous by using biodegradable paper).
As far as I'm aware, the paper airplane route seems harmless enough that you might even be able to get the university's permission if you ask in advance.
You're absolutely right about not actually hitting people. I could probably get one of those mannequins like the ones in the windows of stores and then just drop waterballoons on it instead of people. Using pinecones or wadded up balls of paper wouldn't have the same "bang" effect to get people's attention, I'm married to the idea of using water balloons or something similar.
People should be "afraid." Not real fear but like they should understand how far technology has advanced to the point where a simple drone with some image detection software could hover over their head and drop something nefarious on them without any human pulling the trigger.
God bless you anon, put me in the screen cap
Don't do random shit
Have like a small event once a week or something where you show how a complete braindead retard like yourself can rig a drone to drop bombs and other dangerous objects and then actually do it
drop your water balloons onto like a chalk target circle or something
>I'm pretty sure I could do it for cheap in a single week alone in my dorm room
I assure you you can do it in less than a day considering airdrop devices are already freely sold in fucking amazon etc and no government on earth seem to have any problem with it
How cheap are they? The idea is to write some simple software to do image detection on my laptop and drive the drone to hover above people's heads autonomously, which I could probably accomplish myself given a drone with a dropper assembly and a camera attached.
Around 30 usd iirc
I am telling you man they will start banning/regulating drones in the near future. They might even do some false flag attack so they can justify it.
>they will start banning/regulating drones in the near future
They're already regulated, you often need an FAA certification to fly them.
Do you have a part 107 waiver?
https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/part_107_waivers
>muh drones muh false flag
lelel
who in the fuck is getting their alcohol delivered one by one via drone????
Prisoners
>raise awareness of lingering munitions
you mean raise awareness of how fucking rad they are?
yes. unironically.
If you're trying to show off how rad they are then your best bet is to start up a drone club in your uni, do things like organise FPV races, etc. Invite people from your university paper to visit, give them an interview about how drones are the future of warfare.
>drops 137Cs on pedestrians
Yeah drones and any kind of loitering can be pretty rad
They are gay
YOU are gay, bitch
Drone ruined war for me. It's extremely gay now. You chuds will ruin anything.
>brought back kamikaze and dive bombing
explain to me how this is less cool than just shooting something over and over with artillery, or having a jet drop a big bomb
You just answered your own question. Also the kamikaze aspect of it loses it's flare when you're doing it via remote control.
>grenade fuse
>shoved into a side of TM-62
They are evolving...
i find them extremely boring
Honestly, if you have it drop a light Mylar bag filled with candy it'll probably go over a lot better. A water balloon could hurt if it doesn't burst and people don't exactly appreciate getting drenched while walking around carrying laptops in their backpack. Make sure you frame it as an anti-war/MIC thing so that it goes over well with the typical academic crowd.
See
Waterballoons become a quasisolid projectile with enough drop height, rather drop a foam block or a bag with marshmellows. Hell, you could even go a non-projectile route and mount a speaker, announcing to the target that BOOM, they're dead, and drawing attention from bystanders. Just a projectile might be misinterpreted as being thrown.
Unless everybody on your campus is running around with earbuds 24/7. In that case waterbomb the shit out those consoomers.
oh shit, marshmellows are a great idea. I could put marshmellows in a little plastic ziplock bag and drop them on people with a note or QR code to something anti-war about autonomous weapons.
Getting expelled from college would be the least of your problems, OP. Intentionally dropping an object on someone can be considered assault and get you arrested, even if it doesn't actually injure them.
A much less legally perilous version of this stunt would be to draw a bullseye on the pavement in chalk in an area where it's likely to be noticed, and then drop the water balloons on that. You could prop up a sign next to the target with your message about drones.
Or you could have it drop folded-up leaflets near (but not directly on) people.
I don't think normies would even appreciate the threat. It would be like sending white powder to an embassy and the embassy just throwing it in the waste paper basket.
Just get an RC blimp with putins face on it and fly it around.
>Do you think I would get expelled from my university
Yes.
And probably arrested for causing a terrorism scare, authorities like to throw the book at little people who are powerless and too poor to hire good lawyers, it makes them look tough on crime and everyone likes a story with counter-terrorism heroics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
The guys in picrel were v& immediately, they only ended up with community service in the end but they still lost weeks or months of their lives to the whole mess. If they'd had good lawyers and could afford the risk, they'd probably have walked with no charges but prosecutors have nothing to lose and they had everything to lose so they took the plea deal.
>to raise awareness
You just want to fuck around. Do it without excuses you numb digger.
Why would you do at your own university? Air drop flyers instead college nerds love to read
i threw water balloons at the dorm window onto the sidewalk bellow in undergrad kek
You'll get lots of awareness but also probably go to prison
This is so gay. People in college trying to be deep and make a statement. It's like arguing with a professor passionately and expecting your classmates to he amazed. A: Your classmates are too retarded to care
B: Your professors are too apathetic to care
C: You're too autistic for people to think that you're cool
Just ignore the meaningless people you are temporarily around get your degree and get out.
>would I get in trouble for intentionally dropping shit on people's heads with a quadcopter?
You should get a tripcode so that I can filter you and never have to read anything that you post ever again. I proudly present to you the densest retard of the day award, wear it with pride.
>Do you think I would get expelled from my university for rigging drones to drop water balloons to raise awareness of the ongoing development of autonomous weapon systems and lingering munitions?
Nothing new in this, do NOT risk your education to give simple lessons to people who already see them happen elsewhere - for example, that scifi short movie about drones that headshot people with shaped charges is known by everyone...
...and it's already 6 years old!
You are far more valuable when you have professional experience and can speak from that position - rather make it happen then, as a form of public entertainment on Youtube or something, connecting it to spoken moral lessons. Keep on working on it though, AI is bringing all new levels to it, people of all age groups are needed to inform others for decades to come!
The battery on those micro drones would run out in seconds.
War is an artform, but terrorism is just wrong. This is more like a prank of some kind, still could get expelled.
Not just expelled but also likely criminally charged. We live in a lame gay society now where its considered "assault" if someone gets a little wet from a water balloon, and these feminized people of modernity only posses the ability to call on cops to do anything about a perceived transgression against them.
They are forbidden from handling even the most minor offense by another "individual", and have abdicated their testicles to the state to provide "enforcement" of the "law" even in a case of such a minor issue. A woman cop will probably show up and shoot you for not taking your hands out of your pockets the millisecond she tells you to. Good luck out there.
>I'm studying comp sci and already experienced with engineering
Yeah, you would need some considerable social skill and articulacy and also to be plausibly cast as an artist to pull off the claim that it was activism. Honestly you’d probably have to be attractive too or at least nonwhite
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Doesn't matter if it's illegal, all that matters is is it something you want to do.
Drop factual racist leaflets and the libshits will scurry to find a solution. But it will probably just be banning drones...
>in university
Are you a loyal Marxist in good standing with your radical professors? Then, sure, just talk them into it first (and let them claim all the credit). Otherwise, no.
>to raise awareness of the ongoing development of autonomous weapon systems and lingering munitions?
You sniveling gay, we love those things here.
Drop it on the dean's head when he's making some speech gay
No one has ever demonstrated the ease of terrorist attacks and not had their life ruined for the trouble
just make it funny and not annoying
also might want to check the relevant town/FAA rules you don't wanna get fucked by the law
This is good advice OP. They sky jannies at the FAA have slapped on a bunch of new regulations for drone flying and they're clearly chomping at the bit to make an example of someone. Don't let that someone be you.
Step 1: Get a permit for a public demonstration involving drones, anti-war messaging, and war reenactments
Step 2: Get a film crew and local news or reach out in social media to activist organizations
Step 3: Set up the stage in the area you are permitted to perform during the allowed permit hours to drop water balloons on people who have signed waivers
Step 4: have actors act out AI grenade drone strikes and show how impossible it is to stop them, how brutal it is, and how warfare has changed
Result: you come out in the news and you do not get expelled from school
Thats a nice way to spend tens of thousands of dollars in an afternoon just to make you feel better about cringe shit you cant ever influence or change.
>Do you think I would get expelled from my university for rigging drones to drop water balloons to raise awareness of the ongoing development of autonomous weapon systems and lingering munitions?
the people that need to be aware of this already are, nobody on your campus is important enough to need to know this
>already experienced with engineering
studying a few classes as an undergrad does not equate to experience. grow up a little, learn how the world works. try to intern in the defense industry if youre so concerned about this
Who the fuck would you be making aware of the threat of drones? What a stupid idea that would ruin random peoples day. Don’t worry, I’m sure the military has noticed that drones are op.
flying drones overtop people is illegal according to the FAA, so is dropping shit on people from your drone. they will slap the shit out of you with fines, not to mention actual crimes
For dropping water balloons? Hell idfk, do you really want to be somewhere that lame anyway?
Actually this would be considered premed assault and you would be subject to felony charges. Bot to mention civil lawsuit where you get utterly raped.
>PrepHole actually giving sane advice
lmfao board quality really goes up when the retarded kiddies have to go back to school so they don't have time to post their immature gayry everywhere.
I feel like the people that get excited over drone shit are actual redditors
the defense against attacks like this is to ruin the life of the perpetrator for showing how vulnerable we are. terrorism was invented as a term to legally do this. ironically you're not the only one who thinks we should approach reality from the same approach a computer hacker does, this dude thinks so too https://nobody69d.substack.com/p/psa-005
>approach reality from the same approach a computer hacker does
You know what's funny? You get the same hostility when you warn normies about actual fucking computer hacker threats. Like even something as basic as "don't re-use passwords" and "use a password manager to store randomly generated passwords" is enough to trigger them, never mind their bank is saying the exact same shit.
yup
You ever wonder why we haven't seen any drone terror attacks in the west?
Not that you'd be able to get permission for this without huge effort if at all, but to evoke your messsge in the context of a public exhibit that wouldn't piss people off, you'd want to define a temporary space people can occupy as a potential target. Maybe they get a water balloon dropped on them, maybe they don't.
What I got from the thread
>ask for permission first from the university and
>designate a specific area to let people voluntarily have things dropped on them
>drop paper notes or marshmallows instead of anything that could piss someone off
>skipping these steps could get in huge trouble, beyond expulsion
Thanks everyone. honestly pretty great advice. I think that I could get my point across pretty well by letting people voluntarily experience the sensation of an unmanned combat aerial vehicle hovering above them, like soldiers in an active war zone, or demonstrate that bad guys could make improvised loitering munitions.
Filll will old piss, feces, that will get attention!
imagine if one guy got like 100 drones off amazon and wrote a script to have them fly to a specific location on GPS, then hover as high as possible, then release them with some sort of paper parachute or spinner attachment to cause them to spread out over a huge area.
100 drones each spaced 1 city block apart could cover a 10x10 city block. Each drone would cost maybe $40 at most and could carry 5 lbs of stink bombs.
The ensuing chaos would be very extreme
>imagine if one guy got like 100 drones off amazon and wrote a script to have them fly to a specific location on GPS, then hover as high as possible, then release them with some sort of paper parachute or spinner attachment to cause them to spread out over a huge area.
Meant to write "with a payload of 5 lbs of stinkbombs"