• Riskable@programming.dev
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    1 hour ago

    You don’t need explosives. It has a spot in the front for a camera. One of the new microcontrollers with AI accelerators can do face recognition extremely quickly. It would be possible to use it as an assassination tool.

    Even if you changed nothing about the design, the speed and mass of the thing hitting a person in the face could kill.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 minutes ago

      It would be possible to use it as an assassination tool.

      Khojayev’s just-launched prototype has no effectiveness track record

      :-/

      I think

      it’s more like a high speed burrito delivery device.

      Is a more accurate assessment.

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      39 minutes ago

      As the bps space YouTube channel has shown, reliability is paramount in any launch, especially a guided launch.

      That and people duck when shit flies at them, unless it’s supersonic, which again, as bps space has shown, control of a supersonic flight is extremely difficult to get right.

      This is a guy who landed a hobby rocket like a tesla booster.

      But at $100 a pop, you could have backups. (or payloads)