A fictitious email in my inbox asks for a good-news story about drones as a way of relieving the burden of reading about them dropping bombs on people's heads?
And here it is. A shark fisherman in Florida uses a drone to drop bait because though he should normally use a kayak, he is prone to seizures... nor can he swim, which is better news for the sharks than for him.
On this day last week however a young lady was swept out to sea by a rip-tide and her friend earnestly looked for someone who could (swim). This would likely have resulted in two people drowning in place of one, and so instead our hero used his drone to fly a circular life-preserver out to sea and in reach of the hapless swimmer.
I like to think that this is something we could put our boat to some such use as ideal means of getting life-saving and location equipment to the drowning pending rescue.
It is unlikely to happen any time soon however, because the RNLI is awash with cash, it being among the most beloved charities in the UK. Their inflatable boats cost nearly a quarter-million pounds apiece... a price resulting from a captive market so much as anything else.
It's called Paradigm Theory and one of the few I recall from university viz. nothing changes until the people making decisions literally die off and the newer generation is open to newer ways of thinking.
Started out happy though, didn't we?
