Gellar
Well-known member
Very good logic! There is no doubt drones have their benefits in everything you mentioned and beyond.I've been exploring thermal drones lately in my profession. From SAR, to tracking groundwater discharge, to counting birds on a Lek from a distance, to wildfire recon and more, there's a lot of utility to them.
I believe that, though they really could aid in recovery of an animal, and losing an animal is undesirable, it's a Pandora's Box. In the same way that things are getting strange in the world of AI and technology, and that strangeness is accelerating, the same weirdness is going to become true for drone technology. Really, it already is. Just keep em out of hunting, period. In the same way a computer today is not what a computer was in the year 2000, a drone 10 years from now will have far-reaching capabilities at an affordable price-point only currently on offer to militaries if that.
I don't buy the arguments that because we have implemented technology in other realms - GPS, Optics, etc - that it follows we should continue to in other arenas. It doesn't. Thresholds exist. As do real moments where folks should say enough is enough.
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