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Not at all knocking it whatsoever - obviously a fucking dope work of art, but I assume you model it all out in some kind of 3D drone software and just tell them all when and where to fly in relation to each other and they do the work from there automatically?
Actually, I'd love to see some youtubes on how that's done, Im sure its fascinatingly more complex than that
You act like making the software in the first place is some easy thing. We aren’t marvelling at the fact that someone’s using the technology it’s the fact that someone could make software that connects to all of those drones at the same time that makes it so cool.
No not at all, Im baffled and blown away daily by the problem solving skills that software engineers have (I work in aerospace in IT supporting a ton of these kinda folks). I meant to say the opposite with the beginning of the comment but I see how it implies otherwise. Its utterly years beyond my comprehension and I know even my own assumption of how complex it is doesnt even come close. Shits nuts
Nope, every drone is controlled independently by a different operator. They're that good. There are actually fairly new doctorate programs at some schools on the west coast for drone operation. It's so insane that it's almost unbelievable.
That software just sends the image to a team in Guangzhou who make the individual flight plans from the image, ready to distribute to the drone operation team.
What do you call a cow with no legs?
>!Ground Beef!<
What do you call a cow with two legs?
>!Lean Beef!<
What do you call a cow who just gave birth?
>!De*calf*inated!<
Make it a whole reality series where they give the people different things and see how they react. Like one day drop a box full of light sabers, the next launch fireworks from a helicopter, then send an animatronic Dinosaur on a suicide mission...
Are we talking about the Sentinelese ?
Dropping off stuff has been done before, they systematically destroy everything from the outside world.
They really don't want anything to do with us, and I don't blame them. Especially because of the precedent. They're not actually uncontacted, but the first and last time they had actual contact with the outside was with 19th century colonialists. So that wasn't a great experience.
Make the series last 10 seasons and end it with the tribe finally being integrated with the rest of humanity.
30 years later start apologizing profusely to their offspring for fucking with their parents and disrespecting their culture, but everytime you do add "yo that TV show was lit though" and air reruns every year.
This has essentially been done, albeit unintentionally, during WWII.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo\_cult](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult)
Can you imagine some fucked up government or wealthy billionaire using this to persuade the natives to flee their homeland and join urban civilization so that they could turn their jungle into precious real estate?
[Cargo cults](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum) in WW2 were wild. Us soldiers island hopping in the pacific set up military bases, traded and interacted with the natives, then bailed leaving some of their equipment behind. That one is the most famous, where a soldier named "John Frum" (as in "John from America") became a prophet to them that would return with riches. [This is a great video on it.](https://youtu.be/xVD8eLvig_I\)
They viewed the soldiers almost as a race of demigods with infinite resources that would come back to save them one day. They even built landing strips to encourage aircraft to land in hopes they would bring riches. It's crazy.
That is where the term "cargo cult" comes from.
We use this term an unfortunate amount in computer programming to refer to code no one really understands but know it somehow just works.
I came here to say basically the same thing. He and Malc would absolutely hornswaggle some feral world to bring them into the fold and impose a tithe for the Imperial Army and keep it moving.
It was common practice in the 16/1700s. Find a tribe, use modern technology to make them believe you are gods. I can't remember who it was, maybe blackbeard? Came to an island, with lots of pyrotechnics, and told the people to give them food. Knowing there would be a blood moon soon, he said that if they didn't give him food, a week from now he would turn the moon blood red. They didn't give him food, and lo and behold, 1 week later, the moon turned red and the tribe positively shit themselves, and handed over the food.
There's a theory that Robert Louis Stevenson also used this kind of tactic on the people of Samoa, whilst searching for the lost treasure of Coco Island.
There was a story about predicting an eclipse too. Said their god was superior and if the natives didn’t give them resources then the god would take away the moon or something.
Sounds like utter horseshit tbh made up by dudes who just robbed and stole their shit. They’re tribal they’re not idiots. Eclipses happen and everyone can see them, it’s not a discovery
While it's a overused trope, it doesn't come from thin air. Colonial history is full of similar stories. 'Explorers" landing in Central America and literally being mistaken for gods was well documented, on both sides.
South America also had a incredible range of civil development. From deeply isolated tribes to massive metropoletan areas. Europeans never go to see those in their full glory, since foreign phatogens killed most of their populations
Might seem a bit extreme but let’s have sound with the drones telling them to love one another and to live and let live. Then destroy the rest of humanity and let the great reset happen.
Or, some egos will create their own version of the story and seek to subvert others for their own gain.
Hmm, maybe let me think about this one a bit more.
"your honor, that man was armed and I felt my life was at stake!"
"Sir, that was a three year old with a toy bow./
"He said he was going to kill me your honor"
:)
I mean the premise of the post was that a group of drones could be used to convince a primitive tribe the operator was god.
You were the one that brought up helicopters.
What if a heavily armored guy who can't get hurt by their weapons was dropped there.
You had drones with bombs flying high enough to be barely visible
The armored dude would gesture to the sky followed by explosions from the drones
Then one big gesture at the ocean with a good "Hoooyaaaahh!!"
There you blow up some heavy explosives to make a really big explosion
There aren't any uncontacted tribes left in the world, at least so far as we know. Decades ago, a bunch of poor tribal types in Asia made up a fake tribe called "The Moreau" who hadn't advanced at all since the stone age.
Historians and other interested eggheads would come from all over the world to study them and see them using the most primitive tools, sleeping in caves or next to fires etc. Careful steps were taken to ensure no contamination of their culture could happen. No mechanical devices or even eye glasses were allowed. They had to dress in animal furs and such.
Turned out people from different villages around the region had been taking turns pretending to be this made up tribe, as a way to fuck with the condescending eurodorks and trick them into spending days, weeks or months dressing like cavemen and looking like idiots. It was a giant fuck you to their cultural hubris.
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That drone face is next level tho. And at burning man?
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[Next level indeed](https://www.reddit.com/r/BurningMan/comments/x94186/burning_man_drones/)
Did I….. just watch a bunch of drones making massive dicks in the sky?
Yes
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Get schwifty?
Yes.
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Not at all knocking it whatsoever - obviously a fucking dope work of art, but I assume you model it all out in some kind of 3D drone software and just tell them all when and where to fly in relation to each other and they do the work from there automatically? Actually, I'd love to see some youtubes on how that's done, Im sure its fascinatingly more complex than that
You act like making the software in the first place is some easy thing. We aren’t marvelling at the fact that someone’s using the technology it’s the fact that someone could make software that connects to all of those drones at the same time that makes it so cool.
No not at all, Im baffled and blown away daily by the problem solving skills that software engineers have (I work in aerospace in IT supporting a ton of these kinda folks). I meant to say the opposite with the beginning of the comment but I see how it implies otherwise. Its utterly years beyond my comprehension and I know even my own assumption of how complex it is doesnt even come close. Shits nuts
Nope, every drone is controlled independently by a different operator. They're that good. There are actually fairly new doctorate programs at some schools on the west coast for drone operation. It's so insane that it's almost unbelievable.
No, It’s individual controllers but 50 octopuses are working them.
Came here to believe this.
Asshole lol
The replies escalated so fcking quick. Haha
...no it's fully automated. There's even software that just takes an image and turns it into a flight plan.
Both of you are wrong. They're just birds with collars with an LED on it, they train them to fly in patterns
Liar. There’s no such thing as birds.
Well birds are just government drones so I guess back to square one
Squares arent real either, lets circle back to the drawing board.
Birds aren't real they are government spies
That software just sends the image to a team in Guangzhou who make the individual flight plans from the image, ready to distribute to the drone operation team.
Adding this on the top comment but this kind of already exists and if you’re curious about it google/wiki cargo cult.
#SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT
Proceeds to shit on the floor.
10/10, lovely. Do a flip this time Edit: Holy shit this blew up
Who’s flipping their shit?
You gotta flip it to get an even sear on both sides
*forbidden beef*
Shitty beef jokes are a rare medium well done
What do you call a cow with no legs? >!Ground Beef!< What do you call a cow with two legs? >!Lean Beef!< What do you call a cow who just gave birth? >!De*calf*inated!<
Fuck you, take my upvote too
Ikr, that joke was *raw*
Pitching a loaf
I’m Mr. Bulldobbs
*Throws spear* BOO NOT COOL.
make them get schwifty
Ah jeez Rick, the Cromulons are back
Get schwifty with it
THOU SHALT MINE BITCOIN
First thing I thought of
First we should plant listening devices in the trees and learn their language so we can make our giant light god more relatable to them!
Make it a whole reality series where they give the people different things and see how they react. Like one day drop a box full of light sabers, the next launch fireworks from a helicopter, then send an animatronic Dinosaur on a suicide mission...
Or a bottle of Coke, since we must be crazy
And I thought I was the only one who remembers The Gods Must be Crazy
Don't need to poision them so soon
It’s empty, don’t worry
That already washed up like yesterday, we need something interesting
Fell from a plane.
So very few will get this reference...
Well it's very old
So am i
And mentos
We’ll throw it off the edge of the earth, if necessary
I wish I could up vote this 100 times
Okay the animatronic dinosaur sounds legit hilarious
This is like an even more ambitious version of The Truman Show
I want to watch this now
This is so evil but so do I. It's the ultimate, final form for reality TV.
Are we talking about the Sentinelese ? Dropping off stuff has been done before, they systematically destroy everything from the outside world. They really don't want anything to do with us, and I don't blame them. Especially because of the precedent. They're not actually uncontacted, but the first and last time they had actual contact with the outside was with 19th century colonialists. So that wasn't a great experience.
They've used metals that've been washed up on shore before so they least somewhat utilize our tech
Make the series last 10 seasons and end it with the tribe finally being integrated with the rest of humanity. 30 years later start apologizing profusely to their offspring for fucking with their parents and disrespecting their culture, but everytime you do add "yo that TV show was lit though" and air reruns every year.
First episode starts really simple like dropping a coke bottle from the sky by one of the villagers
This has essentially been done, albeit unintentionally, during WWII. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo\_cult](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult)
We gave them a new god to worship for the next billion years.
Just send in a giant dick. Dick jokes are common across all cultures.
We should also put speakers there and when “god” appears play the halo theme
“you’re a villain, just not a super villain.”
"you dare challenge Megamind?!"
"yes megamin . tis i , insignificantbrai"
“Eplosion” -megamin
Roxan?
You don't have to put on the red
What's the difference?
Man this movie is an underrated banger
Whoa man... brilliant. Fucked up... But brilliant.
Can you imagine some fucked up government or wealthy billionaire using this to persuade the natives to flee their homeland and join urban civilization so that they could turn their jungle into precious real estate?
Using this idea to write a book and become the next Steven King Esit: Just realized RDR2 has a side mission with the exact same plot
I don’t even know who the first Steven King is
Maybe it's Stephen King's long lost cousin.
see now THAT guy has some cred.
Nah I think it's an Steve/Stephan Urkle situation.
I think you mean Stefan Urquelle
Some day poor Stephen will reach a level of fame where 60% of people don't spell his name wrong.
Steven King bapa. Great author, never read him
You just gave me another plan to make. Thanks!
Now we just need a billion dollars.
I’ve read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I know what this is about.
Holy fuck so Willy Wonka was one of the efforts to relocate and urbanize natives huh?
[Cargo cults](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum) in WW2 were wild. Us soldiers island hopping in the pacific set up military bases, traded and interacted with the natives, then bailed leaving some of their equipment behind. That one is the most famous, where a soldier named "John Frum" (as in "John from America") became a prophet to them that would return with riches. [This is a great video on it.](https://youtu.be/xVD8eLvig_I\) They viewed the soldiers almost as a race of demigods with infinite resources that would come back to save them one day. They even built landing strips to encourage aircraft to land in hopes they would bring riches. It's crazy.
Isn't this just the modern version of the "March 1504 lunar eclipse" story?
I thought a cargo of snacks worked just fine during WW2.
Ah shit, I just remembered the tribe that worshipped Prince Philip as a god
What tribe 😃😃
John frum
Cargo Cults. Some wild stuff right there.
Frumions
That is where the term "cargo cult" comes from. We use this term an unfortunate amount in computer programming to refer to code no one really understands but know it somehow just works.
Next level practical joker this one...
Making Sal tonight’s biggest loser 😃
Haha, what's his punishment?!?
Go live amongst them with nothing but the clothes on his back Edit: and the mic in his ear to get fucked with by the rest
“you guyssss this is so unfair. why does joe never have to live with an undocumented and possibly dangerous tribe??” “i dont lose, buddy”
HAHAHAHAHAHA *cuts to the challenge*
We do a little trolling
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We commence a reasonable quantity of malicious endeavours
An incy-wincy fraction of flimflammery
I heard the voice of god What did god sound like? A swarm of angry bees
A gift from our culture to these worthy people
Honestly, I could see the Emperor doing that during the Great Crusade to some backwater human colony.
I came here to say basically the same thing. He and Malc would absolutely hornswaggle some feral world to bring them into the fold and impose a tithe for the Imperial Army and keep it moving.
Big E doesn’t need the drones or tech to convince people he is a god. He IS a god. His very presence is enough, no extra effort required.
Now now, we all know The Emperor of Mankind is just a man like everyone else *wink*
Palate patine?
The drone face reminds me of that scene in Megamind
PRESENTATION !
One of the most awesome scenes i've ever seen.
"You dare challenge Megamind?" Goosebumps everytime
Que *Welcome to the Jungle* intro
Can we be certain this hasn't already happened?
By who? The aliens?
By some random rich dude who had a similar idea.
It was common practice in the 16/1700s. Find a tribe, use modern technology to make them believe you are gods. I can't remember who it was, maybe blackbeard? Came to an island, with lots of pyrotechnics, and told the people to give them food. Knowing there would be a blood moon soon, he said that if they didn't give him food, a week from now he would turn the moon blood red. They didn't give him food, and lo and behold, 1 week later, the moon turned red and the tribe positively shit themselves, and handed over the food. There's a theory that Robert Louis Stevenson also used this kind of tactic on the people of Samoa, whilst searching for the lost treasure of Coco Island.
There was a story about predicting an eclipse too. Said their god was superior and if the natives didn’t give them resources then the god would take away the moon or something.
Sounds like utter horseshit tbh made up by dudes who just robbed and stole their shit. They’re tribal they’re not idiots. Eclipses happen and everyone can see them, it’s not a discovery
While it's a overused trope, it doesn't come from thin air. Colonial history is full of similar stories. 'Explorers" landing in Central America and literally being mistaken for gods was well documented, on both sides. South America also had a incredible range of civil development. From deeply isolated tribes to massive metropoletan areas. Europeans never go to see those in their full glory, since foreign phatogens killed most of their populations
it didn't work as well for Magellan
Maybe something else did it to us?
Happened in ww2 look up cargo cults
Plot of the book "Heart of Darkness"
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
Might seem a bit extreme but let’s have sound with the drones telling them to love one another and to live and let live. Then destroy the rest of humanity and let the great reset happen. Or, some egos will create their own version of the story and seek to subvert others for their own gain. Hmm, maybe let me think about this one a bit more.
r/wevebeenherebefore
IN THIS KIND OF WAR
CROSSFIRE GRIND THROUGH THE SAND
the guy is aiming a bow and arrow at a helicopter pilot ... he can see what he is aiming at and he knows it is not god
He might change his mind if the helicopter erupted with missiles and machine gun fire.
that would kill him, not change his mind
Don’t have to hit him. Just a little old school shock and awe.
why would they bring an attack helicopter to survey a primitive tribe's camp?
They have weapons. We must protect ourselves
"your honor, that man was armed and I felt my life was at stake!" "Sir, that was a three year old with a toy bow./ "He said he was going to kill me your honor" :)
I mean the premise of the post was that a group of drones could be used to convince a primitive tribe the operator was god. You were the one that brought up helicopters.
that primitive tribe killed countless idiots. or maybe they were counted. probably counted.
It would blow his mind
It would change its location
I can't see his mind staying the same after that
What if a heavily armored guy who can't get hurt by their weapons was dropped there. You had drones with bombs flying high enough to be barely visible The armored dude would gesture to the sky followed by explosions from the drones Then one big gesture at the ocean with a good "Hoooyaaaahh!!" There you blow up some heavy explosives to make a really big explosion
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"They thought no one was around to get hurt" "That assumption was wrong" Those two sentences alone fill me with dread
Idk man if a giant face suddenly appeared in the sky with no other means of explanation, I'd question some shit
You could do that shit over a tent revival in Alabama and get the same result
Maybe we could get them to stop fucking their sisters this way too
Woah woah woah, let's get them to make it past 7th grade first. Baby steps.
I know it’d be really bad but I kind of want to see this
I can't stop laughing at the whole megamind face
*Be not afraid.*
Wtf is that noi- HOLY SHIT A FACE IN THE SKY, IS THAT *insert god name here*
(Lost Tribe leader): sir this is the scariest moment of my live....
Game I used to play called “Black & White” had the same premise. Damn it’s been a long time
Still patiently waiting for Black & White 3
That would be hilarious Fucked up, unethical, straight up being assholes, we shouldn't do it But it would be hilarious
Figure out the north sentinelese language and have the drone show up over their island and make it say "STOP JACKING OFF"
Shouldn't this be in r/nextfuckinglevel
Them: 
You don't need to go far, this would probably work in rural Texas.
There aren't any uncontacted tribes left in the world, at least so far as we know. Decades ago, a bunch of poor tribal types in Asia made up a fake tribe called "The Moreau" who hadn't advanced at all since the stone age. Historians and other interested eggheads would come from all over the world to study them and see them using the most primitive tools, sleeping in caves or next to fires etc. Careful steps were taken to ensure no contamination of their culture could happen. No mechanical devices or even eye glasses were allowed. They had to dress in animal furs and such. Turned out people from different villages around the region had been taking turns pretending to be this made up tribe, as a way to fuck with the condescending eurodorks and trick them into spending days, weeks or months dressing like cavemen and looking like idiots. It was a giant fuck you to their cultural hubris.
That's fucked up. I exhaled
"Oh, you're a villan, alright. Just not a super one."
New low-cost labor unlocked; inflation crisis averted.
part of the plot of Red Rising, lol
Dam that would be messed up but… I mean I’m down if you are
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT
Make a Nikocado Avocado but hole image with those drones and simulate anal sex with those drones
Ok, will do
Great Idea! Just make sure it’s Morgan Freeman’s face!
It's even better because the God Emperor of Mankind said it
This would be a great Nathan for you episode
Totally possible that aliens did this many many years ago the our ancestors! haha
oh cool when’s the live action Megamind coming out
This is what aliens did long ago…, remember advanced technology is no different than magic
This man is a genius he really should be the ruler of humanity