The Truth about Drone Deliveries!
Jul 03, 2026 17:26
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All right, so you see this?
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This is a drone.
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And when I say drone delivery,
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I think most people picture something like this trying to
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deliver packages,
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which is just,
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that's ridiculous.
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That's way too much.
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But the thing is,
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I've been looking into drone delivery for the past little bit,
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and it is very,
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very different than that.
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And I also thought we were supposed to have drone delivery by now.
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So let's talk about it.
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All right, here's a crazy stat.
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85 % of all of Amazon's deliveries
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are under five pounds.
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85%.
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And that's from Amazon's own numbers when talking about their own aerial delivery service
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that they've been pouring millions of dollars in development for years into.
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And then I saw videos of it,
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and it looks like this.
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This thing hovers down to like 15 feet off the ground,
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drops the package on the ground,
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and then the propellers kind of blow it away.
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And then it takes off again.
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This seems a little insane to me.
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I'm obviously not going to trust this with anything fragile.
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I would never order a GPU or a smartphone and watch it
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get dropped on the ground like that.
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It's also going to be loud.
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And that thing is huge,
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if you can tell by the scale of the stuff in the videos.
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So they started testing in California and Texas,
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but I haven't really heard much from them otherwise on that.
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Apparently,
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Alphabet also has a project called Wing,
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another drone delivery system.
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The website...
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It's very promising,
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but I punched in my own address and a bunch of others,
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and I can't seem to find any areas where they're actually doing this.
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So maybe if these huge companies aren't nailing it,
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then it's just not practical in general,
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and it's not something we can expect anytime soon.
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But on the other hand,
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I feel like I can think of just a couple nice,
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neat little examples,
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these perfect little use cases where it makes a ton of sense.
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Like let's say you're a new parent at home and you just ran out of baby formula and you need
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more of it ASAP,
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but you can't really leave the house with the baby.
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Drone delivery.
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Or maybe I'm out somewhere in a remote place and I cut myself and I need first
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aid and a car can't get to me,
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but a helicopter is a little bit overkill.
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drone delivery or even just for that DoorDash.
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Like surely,
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surely we don't need a 4 ,000 pound private
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taxi for our burrito every single time,
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right?
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Drone delivery.
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So I'm digging into this and it turns out there is one company that is huge
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in this space,
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far bigger than the other big companies I've been looking at.
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And they are by far the largest autonomous drone delivery
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fleet in the world at this point.
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They're called Zipline.
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And what they've been showing is way more advanced than anything from Google
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or Amazon.
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So I had to go check it out for myself.
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They didn't sponsor this video or anything like that.
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Basically, they were just nice enough to pull back the curtain and let me ask a bunch of questions
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that I have about drone delivery.
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And now I have all the answers.
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All
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right, finally,
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a nice weekend out in the middle of nowhere.
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Just me and a frisbee.
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And I think I forgot my
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power bank.
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That's crazy.
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The one thing I need.
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Hold on a second.
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Let me just place an order.
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And done.
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It says ETA 30 seconds.
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Okay,
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great. Yeah.
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Perfect.
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20
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or so more seconds.
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Yeah,
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that tracks.
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Appreciate
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you. That's
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exactly what I needed.
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Let the vacation begin.
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Like I said.
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Probably one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
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Very advanced.
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Now, Zipline has been doing autonomous drone delivery since 2016,
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but it didn't start off this advanced.
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Their first -generation product matured into this thing right here,
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known as Platform One.
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Less of a drone,
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more of a fixed -wing autonomous aircraft,
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but it was assembled on launch site with whatever cargo is going into
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it, launched from a giant slingshot,
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dropped to the delivery location by coming out of the bottom of the drone with a parachute.
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And then it would turn around and fly back home where it was caught out
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of the air by a huge string on a hook at the tail of the craft.
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I got to watch them demo all of this.
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It is exactly as insane as it sounds.
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Like the launch is crazy.
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It basically slingshots it from zero to 60 miles an hour.
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in a quarter of a second.
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And the catch is even more insane.
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If you watch it in slow motion,
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these arms holding onto the wire actually move at the last
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second to snag the drone out of the air with precision.
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And there's millions of other tiny impressive pieces of tech that make
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this work.
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As complicated as this is,
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this is what essentially became the first autonomous drone delivery system
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at scale.
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And it's had massive success delivering...
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blood and other medical supplies to hospitals around Rwanda.
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So it's saved thousands and thousands of lives to
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this point and actually continues to to this day.
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There's a real engineering video from six years ago about this.
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There's also a Mark Rober video from one year ago.
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They both show this really well.
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I'll leave those videos linked below the like button.
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But they've iterated since then.
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And now their current generation,
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aka Platform 2,
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is...
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Just incredible.
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This is the most advanced drone delivery system we've ever seen.
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So it's made up of one drone with both articulating propellers
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and a fixed wing,
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and then a smaller sort of droid that zip lines out of
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the bottom of it to gently place the delivery on the ground
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with dinner plate precision.
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hence the name zipline so here's a closer look at the drone p2
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in its docking station so it's actually docked from the top and
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this is where it takes off from and comes back the bottom part here is where
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that zipline drone comes out but you can see the rest of the body is actually mainly styrofoam
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and this wing here carbon fiber super rigid super light
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weight is at an ultra premium the batteries stored up in the front here and
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this entire thing with the motors the propellers
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this articulating propeller to switch between forward flight and hover flight 55
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pounds which is pretty ridiculous so then this is the zip this is the little droid that
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gets lowered down from this point here to actually deliver the package and
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there's still a ton of tech on this as well first of all this is how they load it up all
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carbon fiber on the inside
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The bottom is the two doors,
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which is the floor,
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but it also slides left to right to open,
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and it has these feet.
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But then it has the thrusters.
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So this is the big thruster on the back,
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which can move it forward and backward.
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But there's also some right here and right here,
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which can combine to turn it and change its orientation.
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So it's using all of that,
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plus the sensors at the bottom to see what's below it,
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to orient itself,
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to place it exactly where it needs to be,
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open the floor,
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drop it off,
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and then zip right up.
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And it weighs like five pounds.
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It's crazy light.
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So here comes the drone.
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This is how it works.
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It's relatively quiet.
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It's going to stay about 100 meters off the ground,
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about a football field,
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right? So then once it's narrowed down exactly where it's going to lower
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the zip line,
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it knows exactly where it wants to drop it.
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So it's not like it'll accidentally end up on the roof or in the pool or some random place.
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Okay.
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Now any second,
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it should start dropping.
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There it goes.
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So it actually descends pretty quickly,
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which I guess shouldn't be surprising.
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It's gravity assisted.
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But now it's going to drop down and it's actually looking at the ground.
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So if something does get in the way and if there's a dog there,
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some random unexpected something,
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then it will sort of move around and adjust.
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But drops
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it off, floor opens,
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floor closes,
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and then it gets pulled back up like a fishing line.
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And there's the thing that I ordered.
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There is just an incredible amount of tech making this happen autonomously.
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GPS,
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computer vision,
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material science.
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And it's just,
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it's so cool that it all comes together and actually works.
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But I know if you're anything like me,
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you're watching this and it's cool and everything,
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but you still have a ton of questions in the back of your head,
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logically speaking,
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about how this can work.
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And don't worry,
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I had the same questions,
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so I asked them.
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And these are the answers.
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Okay, so probably the number one question,
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how loud is it?
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Because I don't want drone deliveries if it means I have to hear this
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loud buzzing sound all day.
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That would be terrible.
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And so the answer is actually really encouraging.
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So they have a whole team of people working on the acoustical engineering problem,
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that is quiet drones.
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And they're messing with different propeller designs and algorithms to spin the propellers
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at different speeds during different stages of flight to minimize harmonics.
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combine all that with the clever zipline method which means the drone never
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actually gets below about a hundred yards up like a football field
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away from people when it starts dropping a little droid and so the result is it's
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actually shockingly quiet especially when compared to like a normal consumer drone like a
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dji navic or something which has this really piercing sound
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So okay then,
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another question.
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How long does a drone delivery actually take?
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So let's just stick with the classic food delivery example,
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right? So first of all,
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the restaurant still has to make the food.
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That takes the same amount of time.
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Then...
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they have to get it picked up by the drone.
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Now, there's a theoretical future where restaurants and other small businesses can have
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this drop -off point that's essentially a hole in the wall that they just put the order
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in for the drone to pick it up from.
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It would have to be relatively inconspicuous,
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but even for companies that don't want to do all that,
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they've prototyped these standalone passive structures.
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So the idea is to make it easy for the restaurant to just walk outside and leave
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the package in the structure where the drone can pick it up with a zipline system.
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I actually saw a demo of this working as well,
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and it was technically pretty impressive.
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Once fulfillment happens,
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the average food app delivery is three to five miles,
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and so that's well within the 20 -mile range of this thing,
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and they cruise at 70 miles an hour.
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So theoretically,
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there's a world where you order something online,
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and once it's packaged,
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you get your delivery in three to five minutes.
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So okay then,
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what if it's windy or raining?
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Can it still work?
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Turns out,
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yeah,
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absolutely it can.
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Not only are these things rock solid,
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but they're designed specifically to be able to fly in basically anything
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short of hurricane force winds.
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Like I said,
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they cruise at 70 miles an hour,
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so they have some power.
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And the whole thing is waterproof the same way a car is waterproof.
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Like it has to be able to withstand getting pelted by water at every angle.
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And I did witness a pretty windy delivery before we started rolling our cameras.
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It was also at night,
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but the thing dropped down our food successfully right in front of us,
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and it was fine.
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Really, the goal should just be to be able to do anything that a regular delivery truck could
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do, plus all the benefits of being cheaper,
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quieter,
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faster,
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fully electric,
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and working 24 -7.
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So then the elephant in the room question is just basically,
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is it safe?
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Like, I think everyone's basically wondering,
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could one of these drones potentially fall out of the sky like what if a propeller breaks or something and
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so as you can imagine the people designing this system know this is a huge deal and they
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want to avoid any sort of liability issues so they have engineered this
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system to be absolutely ridiculously bulletproof there's redundancies
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through every critical system and all the wiring so you can they told me you can literally cut
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a wire inside this thing and it'll still fly home it can lose not one but two
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propellers
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and still fly home and the internal systems are performing 500 safety checks per second
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and of course is doing autonomous obstacle avoidance and even talking
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to other zipline drones in the area to do these coordinated movements
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with each other but then okay of course if all else fails there is
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a parachute system so if it must fall out of the sky it will at least fall
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slowly
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The end result, or at least the current result,
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is they have flown 100 million miles so far with zero
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safety incidents involving humans.
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It's a hundred million miles.
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It's a pretty good start.
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Now it's still early and there's notoriously always a difference between testing
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and real life,
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but they have tested heavy crosswinds.
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They've tested obscured,
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you know, weird landing spots changing,
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someone pulling on the zipline while it's delivering,
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all that stuff.
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In case you're wondering,
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it'll just cut the zipline free if it detects that to avoid crashing at all
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costs.
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Okay, so I've seen a lot here.
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The evolution from their first generation to the second generation vehicle,
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their massive testing facility with all these docks and dozens of drones launching
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and flying simultaneously,
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and their manufacturing facility too,
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the component testing,
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acoustic engineering.
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Big shout out to Zipline for pulling back the curtain on all the work they've been doing
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and how far they've come.
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It was cool to see this stuff.
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So now in my head,
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I'm trying to fast forward a few years and imagine a future where this is successful.
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Like what does that world...
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actually look like and i think there's a path to
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this being real i've spoken to doctors and hospitals in rwanda who vouched
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very directly for countless lives saved by drones
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delivering blood for transfusions or anesthesia drugs for emergency surgeries
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so that's a pretty obvious and convincing use case that this will
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continue to be useful this won't replace
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Amazon deliveries for people who live in apartments or people who live super
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far from retail shops.
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But for certain specific deliveries,
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I think the benefit is undeniable.
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There's no human needed.
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It's dramatically cheaper.
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It's much faster.
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It's quiet.
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It's emissions -free.
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And it works 24 -7.
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It also turns out Rwanda was a pretty ideal first place to start testing.
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Small country,
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hilly,
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lots of thunderstorms,
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windy.
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And also with a government that's willing to work with them on a lot of
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regulation.
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Because regulation,
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especially in the U .S.,
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like it's a lot of work.
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There's different classes of airspace,
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all the different rules.
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So just in general,
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that's something you need like an entire department for.
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So ultimately, here's my take.
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Drone delivery.
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Super cool.
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Very technically impressive.
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It's not going to be for everything.
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Trucks aren't going anywhere.
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But for very specific deliveries that are both small
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and time sensitive,
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drone delivery can actually make the most sense.
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I'm picturing I fly to some tech
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event somewhere.
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I didn't rent a car.
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I've gotten there with my camera,
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but I forgot my memory card and I need it pretty quick.
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drone delivery.
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Like fly the thing to wherever I'm at,
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drop it off.
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I would love to live in a world where that is possible.
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This very much feels like it unlocks a new dimension of travel
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for a few specific things.
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Some things that were impossible or impractical with a vehicle.
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And also some things where it literally means one less vehicle on the road.
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And it was cool to see a relatively small company innovating and
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competing with the big dogs on this.
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Now I've seen these things fly high enough and fast enough that they're basically invisible.
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in the sky before they come down to do the delivery so
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i'm not worried as much about noise pollution but i am a little bit about
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visual pollution particularly in the night sky
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like in the same way that like starlink is incredibly
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useful for internet around the world but is concerning for the
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view of the night sky but that's a
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whole nother video for another day.
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But yeah, only time will tell if people are ready for this.
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Thanks for watchin'.
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Catch you guys the next one.
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Peace.
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