Amazon Patenting Flying Warehouses Full Of Drones

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This patent filing is either genius or the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. Actually, if you didn't know this was an Amazon patent, you'd think it was some kind of old blimp/drone military weapon design.
 
Yet another example of something that is a not a novel invention, shouldn't be awarded a patent as nothing was invented, and yet will be issued a patent anyway. Also, this idea seems to copying an idea I've seen in both movies and cartoons. I think I recall a flying aircraft carrier concept in G.I. Joe when I was a kid as well as in an Avengers movie just a few years ago.
 
Gman1979 said:
Yet another example of something that is a not a novel invention, shouldn't be awarded a patent as nothing was invented, and yet will be issued a patent anyway. Also, this idea seems to copying an idea I've seen in both movies and cartoons. I think I recall a flying aircraft carrier concept in G.I. Joe when I was a kid as well as in an Avengers movie just a few years ago.
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Actually, that was in Marvel comics LONG before it was in GI Joe, like the mid 60s.
 
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I love living in an age when the James Bond villians of the 60's, 70's and 80's are now our benevolent providers. Electric Laser Cars, Drone-Blimps, VR Pornography....exciting times, kids.
 
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Gman1979 said:
Yet another example of something that is a not a novel invention, shouldn't be awarded a patent as nothing was invented, and yet will be issued a patent anyway. Also, this idea seems to copying an idea I've seen in both movies and cartoons. I think I recall a flying aircraft carrier concept in G.I. Joe when I was a kid as well as in an Avengers movie just a few years ago.
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I was thinking of the Avengers flying boat. Now, get my stuff to me faster!
 
Two questions:

1. Was this simply filed, or have they been awarded the patent?
2. What is their contingency play for when a supercell system with tornadoes comes through and scatters all the merchandise over a 200+ mile area?
 
It is military. They are declaring war on their competitors. They have all of the walmarts programmed into the toilet purge systems, whenever the blimp is over a Walmart it automatically purges.
 
Wal-Mart is going to arm up with SAM sites around the U.S. Talk about shooting down the competition.
 
Gman1979 said:
Yet another example of something that is a not a novel invention, shouldn't be awarded a patent as nothing was invented, and yet will be issued a patent anyway. Also, this idea seems to copying an idea I've seen in both movies and cartoons. I think I recall a flying aircraft carrier concept in G.I. Joe when I was a kid as well as in an Avengers movie just a few years ago.
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I mentioned this at another forum awhile back when Amazon first touted this idea, and was regarded as Bonkers. I suggested they go back to building Zeppelins and turning them into flying warehouses. I was knocked about by younger entrepreneurs who thought I was crazy about filling them up with hydrogen. They must have Googled and found an article on the Hindenburg.:)
 
What's that shadow covering half our state? Oh don't mind that it's Amazon delivering packages during Christmas... Big corps are just filing w/e patents they can in fear of someone else suing them over stupid crap.
 
Why can't I get the image out of my head of a giant warehouse in the sky, manned by a giant, with a goose that just churns out golden eggs for amazon.
 
Better not have any over Somali. Those pirates will take to the sky.
 
.....grabs popcorn . Waits for the tinfoiler redneck to start shooting down the ALIENS coming from the sky....
 
I bet you someone will be hiding in the bushes with a .22 air gun and shoot the props off to collect the booty! It is gonna be hilarious when Amazon starts losing big bucks to thieves!
 
Nobified[H] said:
I bet you someone will be hiding in the bushes with a .22 air gun and shoot the props off to collect the booty! It is gonna be hilarious when Amazon starts losing big bucks to thieves!
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because people can't swipe your shit off the doorstep now?
 
Nobified[H] said:
Swiping package from door steps is risky. Thieves usually take the path of the least resistance.
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Agreed, but may be more likely attempts to hack or disable using radio waves rather than projectiles. A high focus beam in the same frequency as being used on the "drone" could cause enough interference to disconnect the connection to the "mothership" and cause the drone to stall, or even drop out of the sky.

I would hope that Amazon would program the drones so that they would have an internal GPS and internally programmed destination, rather than constantly communicating with the "cloud" (he he, just realized how ironic that term is in this situation) for directions.
 
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