Droning on about Drones for Delivery

I, V, M. Yeah, I know. Oh, men talking. Yeah.

Oh, men talking. Yeah. And people actually, yeah. Actually now already we can.

We've been, we've been, we've been cancelled. Yeah. We have, we are, we are actually four men and looking at Tony's background, four men and a boat. Well, later.

Yeah. For those of you who can't listen to a concierge, Tony is actually in Kerala. So he's literally on his farm behind him. There is a cow.

There is a cow. There is a cow. There is a cow. There is a cow.

Excellent reference. Those who know will know. Anyway, we have spoken, we have said that we are four men. We have talked about a goat and a cow.

So people will have absolutely no idea what the show is actually about. For those instilled in the, so I'm interested in the rest of the sanity, Tony has a picture of Racholi at the back and that's the good reference. God, you are saying. This morning I actually like opened my eyes and I saw my daughter sitting on the bed and smiling at me and I was like, I'm fairly sure I missed my 630 alarm.

And I thought I'd, in fact, miss the recording altogether. But then she's been awake since five years. Oh, okay. Have you guys ever missed an alarm?

Like, and really badly? I think I did in the last recording. I'll do it for flights. I'll do it for flights.

Things of consequence. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've had a classic fail.

I mean, did not study at all, had last minute preparation. Again, things of consequence. Things of consequence. This is below simplified.

I can't do this. So, did you study for the exam? Did you study for the exam option? No, this is actually worked out to be weirdly.

They're like, I almost compensated for my slightly lackluster academy pass. This was during my undergrad and it was an American literature paper. And I missed my alarm. I moved to the exam.

I was like, I almost compensated for my slightly lackluster academy pass. This was during my undergrad and it was an American literature paper. And I missed my alarm. I moved to the exam.

I moved to the exam. So, rushed down to the exam. And got an A. I don't know.

I'm struggling to think of a time when I missed something of consequence. But since Marien said Mr. Flight, my best flight missing story was when I had so when I was working in Switzerland, I was 13 or 14. For some reason somebody had asked me to fly to Jepo to interview Raul Dovitt and VVS Lushman.

I was so confident that you needed to get into an airport only half an hour before the flight. I have no idea why I had this. This is a sense of confidence. I left Ogele only about an hour before.

I stopped on the way to get printouts. That thing is fine. So, casually I walked in. Like absolutely like the flight is half an hour.

The flight is going up close. Then I called up the client and said, I might not be able to come because I missed my flight. They absolutely lost time. I'm just fine now the flight paid an exorbitant amount for it.

So, I haven't missed a flight. But maybe I should just say. I mean, I won't say I got late for it. But I did one flight booking where I confused AM and PM.

And for AM for AM and I think Chuck, you only booked me a replacement flight from home. But when I reached confidently 7 PM around 6 PM each, I said, quote, and I showed to the guard and he looked at me and said, Sir, he had flight. So, I got a call. I was like, oh, God, I got a call.

That's a big feeling. I like security guards. I was like, I have had this all day. I was going for Chuck's wedding actually to Kochi and we turned up at the airport and I was waiting for the flight.

And then we go to the gate. We were like, happy. We didn't really go to the gate. The guard literally holds on to me, turns me, calls the cab and says, I'm going to go to the gate.

Wow. The latest flight I got is 15 minutes before takeoff. Wow. And there I had to actually literally, I mean, it is a once in a lifetime thing that happened because I played the guard saying, listen, I mean, it was at 9 in the night and I said, you know, it's my birthday tomorrow.

I have to be there. And like they could see it on the ID card, right? And then the person who took her. Yeah, there you go.

He's not lying. Like it is his body to put her. And she was very nice enough to like get me on the flight somehow. That's pretty sweet.

And then the fake other card is all you need when you were listening to the guy show printed that out. It's only when you were saying that with that tone, right? I know you enough to know that a joke is coming. So I thought you were going to say the last flight that I missed was a flight of fancy.

That was really what I was expecting. Those are the only flights that are available now, actually. So how people guys refer, you know, drones refer to other drones as birds, you know, this bird told me that bird told me that and so if you miss your flight, I guess you're a flightless bird. So where you fly.

So you even have any chance? I'm going to leave the joke. Oh my God. We have taken the spirit of the ship.

We have thrown on and on and we should segue into our main topic for chart. Yeah, but before we get into that, should we do the profundity? Yes. So the profundity is pretty short, sweet and simple for today.

There's a classic picture of two kids enjoying in the rain. They're dancing out in the heavy rain. But obviously as we did for what they need to be not only profound, but also topical. So this one is basically a picture of those two kids dancing in the rain.

And that the copy is God is sanitizing everything with his showers of blessings. Good for me. Wow. I don't know what I can say without at least one set of people being offended.

So I'm recusing myself from commenting on it. Sometimes we should just let the profundity stand. Or float. Like I don't know why, but I am thinking of a moment in the swimming pool when suddenly something becomes one.

God is sanitized everything with shower. Let's keep saying. So let's keep the simplified sanitized as well and move on quickly to the topic which is one of the rain. Yeah, it is delivery drones.

So we delivered all kinds of drones. I swear I once had this Amazon guy who came and he just wouldn't stop talking. Oh wait, that's what we're talking about. So delivery drones are something, for some obscure reason I got very fascinated by.

I think it's because I read this last year that the Maharashtra government was going to team up with a company called Siplein and delivered drugs and medicine and things like that to people in India and Maharashtra. And Siplein Institute was the other partner and COVID came along and all those plans came to vanish. I can't find anything about it. But drones are fascinating and it's really opening a door into like, you know, it's offering a solution to delivery problems.

Obviously drones started like everything all good thing in life started out with military things in mind. The best thing is that those which help you kill other people. So it's like they should one of my friends just have a teacher join the army see the world meet a lot of interesting people and kill them. So I was reading up about drone that I thought we should just sort of chat about it.

Firstly, you know, drones did you know how the term drone originated? Why are drones called drones? I mean, we all know they are drones are they right. I would assume that yeah, that's what I would assume that meal of the bee.

Yeah, why should why should a flying unmanned aerial vehicle be called? Oh, I have answered it is shot for driving on new elevation. Well played. No, it's wrong answer but full marks for imagine.

Is it an accident? No, it's not an accident. That driving was like a retro name. Yeah, it's a pre world war it's a pre world war thing.

So there was this company called D Havilland and D Havilland was was a company that made planes. It made a plane called queen bee, which was a flight pilotless, you know, a pilotless radio controlled plane without a cockpit. It was used for target practice for gunners in the Navy. So they would hit it.

Right. Wow. Unmanned flight is probably a good. So this it was it was called a D H 82 and it was called a queen bee.

And it was in reference to then people start calling it a drone because drones would make just one flight, you know, that the drones sole purpose was made with the bee or something like that. Yeah. So you just made with the bee and then that. So anyway, I haven't built about 400 of which around 300 were in service at the start of the second world war, but actual, you know, unmanned aerial vehicles, if you want to call them that were the earliest documented version was in 1849.

And this is like an epic fail because this was the Imperial Austrian army deciding to invade Venice and Venice was proving very stubborn. This was in 1849. And what some bright guy in the Austrian army decided that they would be siege where Venice and they would send balloons filled with incendiary things. So back in the day, it will probably be firewood and a little bit of kindling.

I thought like messages that say your pizza sucks or something. That would have got God, God, that is to surrender straight away. But unfortunately Tony wasn't on the Austrian side of that. And so these guys launched 200 of them 200 of 200 balloons with sort of flammable material in it, probably on already on fire idea being that they would go to Venice, they would descend and start burning building.

And as luck would have it, the wind direction change and all the balloons came back and landed on the ship, so complete epic fail. And that stopped all development on UAVs still. But on the bright side, this story led to the development of several Tom and Jerry episodes. Tom and Jerry Wylie, Kyle.

All that shit. And so the other luminary, so you know, this Nikola Tesla meme, he invented everything. So he also invented the drone. So he didn't actually invent them, but he described the fleet of uncrewed aerial combat vehicles way back in 1950.

And he was pretty visionary. He's like the Leonardo da Vinci of modern times. And okay, that gives you an idea of how old I am, that 1915 modern times. So he inspired a construction of something called a catering bug by a guy named Charles Kettering in Dayton, Ohio.

Then this was picked up by another unusual and interesting character named Reginald Denny. So Reginald Denny was an actor. He was a regular actor, actor, actor and player, actor and movie, he was a supporting actor in, you know, right up to 50s and 60s. And he had a company which manufactured and developed drones, like what we now know as drones.

And then he vanished into the sunlight. He died in 65 or 66 something. And then that's, and then the bad days of the Cold War started, right? So that's when things really started getting, you know, people started seeing the plus side and it started with the US because US, they wanted to, they didn't have all that many people who were willing to die in the service of the country.

So they, despite the t-shirts. They interesting people. And so they had, you know, they had these skirmishes all the time with the Soviet Union. So they had one of these YouTube ombles, flying in a reconnaissance mission over the Russian airspace and it got shot down by the Soviets.

So then these guys said that enough, we started, we have to start using uncrewed aircraft. And they, it was a highly classified program, highly classified. So they started to employ it and just around that time, by the end of that decade, the Vietnam War started. So now these guys started deploying that because Vietnamese people were very stubborn.

They didn't want anything to do with American liberty forces and they were not afraid of dying. So they would just stand there and shoot all the planes, right? You know, I don't mind dying themselves. So these guys started deploying unmanned aerial vehicles.

So Vietnam War was all kinds of bad. And, you know, if I strongly recommend that people read about the horrors of that time, is generally how bad war is when and how difficult it is to kill people. So we just have this romanticized idea of war, you go with your fleet and you train your gun that someone and they all surrender. But they don't, people don't want, they don't mind dying, they don't want you.

And then you say, okay, I'm going to call your bluff and you start killing people. And you kill more and more people and they still don't want to die. And by the time you give up, you find that you've killed up like millions of people. So that's the standard template for most wars and other than that.

Full metal jacket, this one would be on this. Full metal jacket, okay. I haven't seen it, but I will. It's a nice movie.

So these guys used very highly classified UAV, which the Chinese government down. And when they showed, you know, they published photographs of it and US officials come, response was no comment. But by the time it was clear that they were using it, then. So it was a crude uncorrode.

Yeah, crude uncorrode. Oh, wow. Yeah. Then these guys used it, the Israelis and they become like world masters in military unmanned aerial vehicle.

That was something called a Yom Kupur war, which was a fascinating thing. Arab states got together and decided to invade Israel and they managed to invade it as well. And after six days, they got their ass escaped because primarily because of UAVs. So what these guys started doing was, so these people, Arabs had bought a lot of really expensive anti-aircraft missiles from the Soviet Union.

So the plan was Israel would fly the Jets and these guys would shoot it down. But Israel started flying this unmanned, you know, really cheapo unmanned wooden aircraft into it. And these guys would shoot, use up their missiles to shoot them. So after about six days, all their missiles were born and they were left with a huge gaping bill, which they had to pay for the Soviet Union to buy.

And that was the end of the war. Very interesting thing about the Israeli decision making system, especially when the Yom Kupur war that you suggest, that you talked about, fallen, which also the 1972 Munich massacre happened. So Israel, I mean, as a country, I mean, obviously born out of some of the most horrific events that man has known in the Holocaust of the World War II. They actually, after the Yom Kupur war, which they weren't anticipating and initially led to an invasion and then the Munich massacre have developed a system of decision making, where based on these unforeseen horrific events, which they called the 12th man system, where there are 11 people, so they have a council of 12 people who are making a decision and say there is a very, very unlikely scenario.

So for example, tomorrow one of the Arab states will launch a nuclear missile at Israel. Now, 11 of those guys based in fact, and understanding and knowledge are saying that there is no chance this is going to happen next week. So the system they have instituted is 11 people by unanimous consent agree on one thing. The 12th man has to descend and explore the alternative opportunity that's fullest.

That they'll never leave anything to chance. And they will actually have to explore whatever that option is to the fullest so that no matter how absurd and outrageous it is, there is no way that the unforeseen can happen. I think in football, the 12th man actually refers to when the referee is also on your side. They are very pertinent for Israel because they can just get away with the narrative by killing lots of people because they will have countries on their side.

So the 12th man decision system is pretty good. Wow, that's a lot of... We have more balance. Yeah, and it's easy to sympathize with Israel because they have constantly confronted with their own annihilation.

But there's an interesting train of thought which suggests that had they not been so hawkish, a lot of the problems in the Middle East would not have persisted. But it's one of those, you know, counterfactual what if theories are very difficult to say. But yeah, they are in general very hawkish and it's a last man standing kind of fight, only one side. And when things are sort of getting a little more peaceful, some countries, some Arab countries are signing peace with Israel.

And a lot of that is probably happening because Israel is on a position of strength. So if it was the other way around, they wouldn't have lasted. So yeah, and to the present, you know, this is all this is happening in Vietnam and all these things. And we all know that drones are really very efficient ways of fighting wars.

And it's probably the way wars or whatever forms of thought are going to be fought in the future because they're inexpensive and they have zero factor of safety. So you can really afford to lose them all the time. You don't have to, you can make a million of them. You can make a million planes.

You can make a million phones. I discovered a majority of that a lot of traditional armed forces used for people who are drone operators, they call them the chair force. And so they're like all drone operators are part of the chair force. I mean, there's a lot of traditional armed forces actually kind of feel that drone warfare is like real warfare.

It's like video game warfare in some way. And which is also contributed not only the disdain, but it's also contributed to far more casualties, especially in places like Afghanistan, like that. It's been, I mean, because of the fact that there are none of your people in the field, everyone seems like video game characters, right? There's a person there and he's just a puff of smoke.

Yeah, wouldn't be a bad idea to actually have wars as video games. Yeah, actually, on that note, I think it's a little quick break and then come back and talk about other signs. More about drones. Are you looking for finance products and services that can enhance your personal finance experience?

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We are now in is telling us about drones. We are now about drones. Yes, sorry. We have a title for the episode.

And yeah, so... You've been telling us a lot about drones in warfare and all that. That was not what you wanted to talk about. That was not what you wanted to talk about.

All depressing stuff about it. And it's a delivery by a drone. So are you talking about items being delivered or are they like machines taking all the stocks? No, no stocks.

Do these stocks use to deliver to me? That would be, yeah. Actually, it's a big fact. It's a big fact.

Delivery is... I remember one author named Richard Gordon. I used to, you know, he was very popular in my youth. He used to write, you know, a British guy.

He used to write very voodoo-dazian tales about life in the hospital in the UK. So the imaginary hospital was called Saints Within's. And our protagonist is a guy named Miles Grimstick. And he is, you know, he's a resident there.

He's just either just studying past or just past and working. And his boss is on a surgeon named Sir Lancelot Spratt. And he's a very, quite a character eccentric guy. So things come about surgeons, you know, they operate.

And it so happens that Sir Lancelot is required. He's the only doctor on the scene. And he has to deliver a baby. Someone has gone into unexpected, a woman has gone into unexpected labor.

So someone asks him, Sir Lancelot, you're a surgeon, are you sure you know how to, you know, conduct a delivery? He says, yes, I've been a medical student. And what is there to remember? You just have to stand in the slips and take the catch.

So that's my thing with delivery there. So all of you who missed this joke in episode two and three? I was wondering why did he say that? And I also said if he was Sir Lancelot, then he would have been the next person.

On this, I continue to be slightly with the deviation. There is a wonderful movie called Children of Men. I don't know if you guys have seen it. It's about, it's a, it's a dystopian future.

The whole, the whole human race becomes infertile and women can't conceive anymore. And people, the human race is slowly itching and dying. And there is a very great in joke in there where, inside the movie, there's a guy who's narrating a joke about the situation about the movie. And he's like, so the world leaders all gathered together to discuss why there is this global infertility and try and figure out the reasons for it.

So the Americans come forward and suggest some kind of the overuse of technology, the Germans talk about some other solutions. Any country, so it's just different. There's an Englishman who's quietly just sitting over there. And they turn to him and they're like, he's quietly sitting and digging into his dinner.

And they turn to him and he's like, dude, what do you think? What is the reason for this infertility? He's like, I haven't got a damn clue, but the stock is damn delicious. That's awesome.

Sorry. Sorry. But delivery, we were talking about deliveries and more conventionally deliveries means taking things from point A to point B and UAVs are suited for that in certain places, eminently suitable. So one of those places are delivering emergency medical supplies.

So there is a time dimension and this happened in Rwanda. So, Rwanda is a hilly country and it has a very poor road network. So, the most important places are not well, you know, it's basically just mud tracks and Rwanda has a big rainy season. So in the rainy season, it's very difficult to go from point A to point B because the roads just become quagmire of mud.

So there's this company called Siplein, which made these drones, they're fixed-wing drones, large, they're not like the drones which you see on weddings these days, you have quadcopters carrying cameras and going around. These things are, they look like planes, they're fixed-wing aircraft, they're powered by batteries. And the whole thing is, they are autonomous. So you just, you know, punch in the coordinates where you want to go and you shoot the plane and it goes, it goes, you're going to go.

And it goes, it drops and it comes and everything is optimized for speed. So to such an extent, they found that if you just sort of try to boot up a drone, it takes forever to hook up to the GPS. It's precious second. It will be a few minutes before it hooks up to the GPS and things like that.

So they've put all the GPS into the battery. The batteries are being charged and you can, you know, it's all linked to the system. The coordinates get fed into the battery, everything where the battery is still on the rack. And people are just assembling the plane, basically just fitting out the plane, whatever needs to deliver.

Most of the time, it is blood. So, you know, emergency, you know, if you need a couple of pints of blood, the blood bank is probably somewhere in the capital and the blood is required somewhere else and it needs to go really quickly. So they just fit the battery into the plane. The battery's already got all the coordinates and they put the payload onto the base of the plane and they shoot it.

And it goes to the location, it doesn't bother landing because in many places, there is, you know, the optimum conditions for landing don't exist. Number one. And number two, landing is a complicated operation. You have to make sure there is no tree or stone or whatever.

So you need a pilot with eyes there. So they don't want to do that. It's completely autonomous. So it goes there.

It drops the payload from the air. There's a parachute fitted that thing floats down. So somebody, some human goes and collects it. It takes a u-turn and comes right back.

And it's working brilliantly in Vermont. It's doing life saving work. And they were going to do similar things in India. I think it's great.

A lot of, I'm thinking about places like the North East and maybe, you know, interior parts of places like or places, where places traditionally where it was dense forest, so roads still haven't been constructed. And people that are not landing also has the additional advantage of people not capturing it and keeping it. I was going to say this for later. There's an article I see here that Sugi is trying to get approval to start drone trials of food delivery.

The one comment on the article is India people will start stealing drones. It's such a hack me joke to make. But interestingly enough, I don't know whether this is what sparked off your interest in this topic. But just yesterday, rather was news that vaccine delivery trials are beginning and they are in the country.

And it's set to begin today in a place with 80 kilometers away from Bangalore. And obviously the DGC is keeping us. That is the airport. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. They're talking about the space systems have got. This would be drone vaccine delivery to remote hospitals and medical personnel. Correct.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Or are they self-administering kids? I don't think that qualified people are still not, you know, at a stage where they can be self-administered because they're administered wrong. You don't get a benefit to the vaccine. Yeah.

Actually, I can see that there's talk about the, I mean, it's still not out yet. But there's talk about that the nasal vaccine that's about the, it's coming through, right? So, I mean, it potentially could be in the future where I mean, slightly there where this can be a drop to remote areas and people can self-administered as well. Yes.

So that is going to be a revolutionary, you know, a breakthrough if they have self-administered vaccines because you can really speed up vaccination process like anything. Right now the mechanics of organizing vaccination camps. So we've been reading one of the most depressing things I've read in recent time is how a couple of people are dupes, you know, housing societies into, you know, paying the money and just giving bump vaccines, fake vaccines. And the people thought they'd been vaccinated.

They weren't. And that's awful. That's terrible. And it's you can't detect it.

Yeah. How would you know? I mean, you know, some like not everyone who gets the vaccine. So here in Malaysia, there was a conspiracy theory conspiracy theory.

I don't know whether it's any truth, but some people were actually seeing that, you know, the vaccine, when the vaccine was being administered. A lot of people, some people demanded to see the empty syringes and they weren't shown them or something. And so it's not that they weren't given the vaccine, but they were given maybe half the dose that was required or something like that because people were trying to conserve it. It was a conspiracy theory largely where people said like doctors came on YouTube videos and this thing, but I mean, anything that increases vaccine, as you can see, all of these things keep coming out.

So I think it's also part of just trying to debunk all of that stuff because again, you either get the wrong dose. But again, in India, it's very true because there were, I mean, there were stories of some, I was watching Ravi Shkumar show and he was stories of some lady was just sitting over there. And this nurse was very busy with her phone and she was just administering it robotically. And the woman was sitting over there.

She was administered one dose and then she didn't leave the seat. She was still adjusting herself and trying to get off the seat. And in the meantime, the nurse came and gave her the second shot also because she realized that person had left the seat. And then she started yelling at her, why did you go fast enough?

Now you've got to do it. How did this drone thing start off in Rwanda? Like, is there some funder behind that? So, yeah, I mean, it was Rwanda was particularly sort of, you know, afflicted by lack of people who are dying and someone reached out to this guy who was the CEO of Zipline.

And Zipline was just a startup at that point of time. And they decided to see what they could do about it and they did a lot of the development on the fly. So it just happened and they managed to get some funding in the US and then they did. So it's something that happened just serened a bit.

The best thing about Rwanda is that it has, I think, the highest percentage of women in parliament, 62% or something. It's a beautiful country. I've been there and it's just only to the capital of Kigali. It's just not green when you're playing lines there.

It's just like, you know, it's like landing somewhere in Kerala. It's just like green. Lovely, beautiful and very hilly, lovely weather. Excellent.

I mean, when I went to Rwanda, I was like, you know, I had all the hotel Rwanda thing in my head. It's nothing a lot. It's, you know, whatever scars are there, they seem to have hidden people seem to have hidden them pretty well. In fact, I was also reading, I think they're doing the, the company that you mentioned is called Zipline, right?

Yeah. Yeah. I think Zipline is doing the same thing for Ghana as well right now. Yeah.

And Malavi and Malavi. And the best part about the thing is it's actually they're coordinating the drones by WhatsApp. So, yeah, so they're, what they're able to do is like the medical profession at the health care center can literally say, I want 130 doses and delivery within that specific point. Yeah.

And it's like location pretty much that specific location, those number of doses they delivered. So that because also it's a concern about the vaccine going bad. So limited number of doses are exactly what you need. And drones can allow for that micro delivery rather than batch.

Yeah. Correct. The other fascinating thing I saw in the, in the, in the Zipline thing was, so you have, you have, it's a fixed wing aircraft like regular aircraft and has flaps which go up and down and everything is electrical. And you want to be sure before the plane takes off and all the flaps are working.

So all the flaps have QR codes on them. And there is an app on the phone. So you point it to that QR code that that signals to the aircraft. So you're hooked up to the aircraft.

It's still lying in your place. The flap goes up and down. So that is, that is the test. Like, you know, the pilot does it when we are taking off.

So the flap goes up and down and the mobile phone sees that the cell phone sees your flap going up and down. It works it. Okay. It tells you to go to the other flap and point your camera at that.

And it does the same thing. So it does a flight readiness check on the cell phone. This reminds me of, I mean, essentially, I think almost the beginning of the flap thing reminds me of. So I don't know if you guys know, but during the Berlin airlift after World War II, the Berlin airlift, because I mean, the whole situation was the entire city was being supplied by air because of the Soviet Union blockading West Berlin.

When that blockade was happening, there was this one pilot who was like used to fly over the airfield and used to see a large number of children near the base of the airfield. So he went and spoke to them after landing, spoke to those kids and he gave them like a piece of candy and they were, I mean, the kids are very innovation. So they had not seen candy and he didn't get any very long. So they all divided it very nicely and needed.

So he was like really touched by that. And he said, okay, the next time I'm coming, I will drop you guys candy. And they asked him how will they know because of the number of likes that are coming? How will we know it's you?

So the guy said, I will wiggle my wings. So he was called Uncle Wiggy Wings and he used to then after the style, handkerchiefs to candy and throw them to kids in Berlin. And it actually became a huge effort where kids in America would like send loads of candy to Germany and this guy would tie handkerchiefs to it and parachute it all over Berlin to kids. That is such an awesome story.

They were called raising bombers. It's a reason and candy bombers. So it was supposed to have a bird down. I was just reading it was such a beautiful story.

Such a beautiful story. Yeah, so that's something about the distance recorded. So this popped my eyes. So this is way back in 2003.

A guy named Meinan Hill. He made a drone and flew it 1,882 miles on less than a gallon of fuel. Wow. That's something.

And you know, that's 2003. So it must have improved right now. The one else has done this after that. But drones are not battery operated?

No, not. So batteries have a very low power to weight density. The advantages of batteries are that the motor. So battery is a fuel and the prime war is the motor.

And that's very simple. And if you have gasoline, then the prime war has to be an engine. An engine is far more complicated and expensive. And so for military applications, long distance, higher payload, they still use gasoline powered fixed wing aircraft.

Electric aircraft can carry very little in this. The payload is something like 3 pounds or 3 kilos or something. It's not much. It's okay for medical supplies.

That's about it. They can carry some 2 or 3 pints of blood. So in fact, a lot of these drones also have, so they have their own 4G connectivity primarily to relay live temperature. The other boxes of the payload that they are carrying, especially with vaccines and even the blood.

So that the temperatures are maintained at a certain level and it also determines the length of light they can take before the temperature drops below or goes above the certain level that is acceptable. So it's all optimized for that. The other kind of drones that people do, which are basically quadcopters and things like that, they are much easier to make. Literally hobbyist.

Anyone can make it. And they have been used very, you know, so it's, the moment is, if everything can be delivered, why not drug? So the drug cattle was one of the earlier doctors of this. So from one kind of drugs to the other.

Yeah, so illegal drugs. And so a lot of it. And, you know, this is like, you know, the narcotics guys and the drug peddlers, the constantly battling. What I found wrong was people tried to and keep trying to deliver things into prisons using those.

And they use them at night because, you know, usually guards are, you know, they'll go to sleep. So one of the delivered by our drones is like getting high in the sky. Manoff from heaven. So one guy sent a drone into a prison in Ireland.

And these people had had, you know, all the feared helicopter sort of, you know, I can people. So they put wires all across the thing so that if a helicopter tried to land that would, you know, snag in the thing. So the drone came and the drone guy didn't know this and the drone just happened to snag on one of the wires and it fell into staring drugs. And when this happened, the prison guards rushed to catch it.

But inmates rushed quicker. But prison guards came all the drugs were gone. Oh my God, this is the first time a drone had become a mule. I'm looking at Amazon Prime Air, which is Amazon's, I mean, supposed to be coming on service.

So it's still not gotten off the ground. So the speaker. So they were pioneers, sort of pioneers in this thing. They were thinking about that.

And the, you know, the federal aviation authority, which control their traffic in the US, they were rightly, I believe, very worried about drones just flying without authorization all across the United States. One is because of, you know, sheer possibility of accident. It just happens to get in the car. Because the one big problem is, as you mentioned with the Rwanda and the Ghana's, they're flying dial, they're fixed wing aircraft.

They're able to function well before outside in what is called a drone, terminology, DDLOS, which is beyond visual line of sight. So you can, the drone can fly beyond what the operator can see that quite comfortably and it's well controlled. Whereas when you talk about quadcopters, stability as well as possibility of malfunction, you know, DDLOS situation is far higher. Yeah.

And the other thing is that, you know, you can deliver all kinds of lethal payloads, which is a very scary proposition. So one of the things that is worrying people is something called micro UAVs, which are literally insect sized. Yeah. And they can deliver, you know, sort of biological weapons.

So if you want to have some lethal bacteria or virus, which you want to deliver to a particular kind of thing, you could send it to. I mean, they're very hard to detect. I mean, I imagine a bug or mosquito size UAV that can deliver like an injection of hydrogen cyanide or something into it. Or even just fire.

Yeah. So I really like we were discussing in the last episode, these things are getting developed, whether you like them or not, or whether they're good for humanity or not. And it's up to humanity to sort of, you know, figure out useful uses for them. The best use case, of course, is to kill a lot of interesting people.

And it doesn't happen. And yeah, that's pretty much it from me about delivery drones. It was, I just wanted to sort of, you know, give an overview of what's happening. You entered out a very bleak note on it.

I feel like we should, you should find a way to pick like. We should. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, overall, it's going to be good in the sense that one of the biggest challenges that faced many countries, including how the hell are you going to vaccinate people who live far away.

They are typically people who live far away from the center of things also tend to be poor people. So they can't really afford to get to big cities and things like that. So drones are going to be. Yeah.

The positive thing about the micro UAD that you said, it's sort of delivering doses of hydrogen cyanide. Imagine it going and delivering actual vaccine doses to people. Yeah. Very small amounts.

One mile, two miles. It needs to be maybe a sunset element to it. But imagine you like walking around suddenly you get like a small mosquito bite. Oh, like you hold your hand out and it's just.

No, you're walking around and you're like, I'm like, I'm actually. And try to do somebody's watch with the mosquito back. Like some. So that's a nice move to end on.

I suppose. So that's it from us for this week. I'll catch you in the next week. We want to sign us off.

Yes. Let's sign off by saying stay safe guys and stay up in the sky. Stay safe. And then also stay unmanned.

Stay safe. Unmanned. Drone on and stay simplified. Drone on and stay simplified should be out.

Excellent. See you guys. Bye. Bye.