The pirate bay going even further

CREATIVE!11 · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:04

http://rt.com/news/pirate-bay-servers-drones-013/

I must say I started laughing because I just found the concept so funny, it's like we're going to host our pirate drones now! you can't get us because if you shoot them down it's an act of war.

Love it.

Phantom Shadow · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:24

Raspberry pi? Cheap radio equipment? How many drones would they need to actually handle all the traffic without the website being painfully slow?

Drones will probably need to land at some point, a perfect time to do a raid and take them. Would shooting down a civilian drone count as an act of war? Probably not, so goodbye drones.

tom_e · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:29

They've not gone anywhere with it in the last 2 years so I think it's safe to say they'll be carrying on as normal.

Rroff · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:41

Phantom Shadow said:
Raspberry pi? Cheap radio equipment? How many drones would they need to actually handle all the traffic without the website being painfully slow?

Drones will probably need to land at some point, a perfect time to do a raid and take them. Would shooting down a civilian drone count as an act of war? Probably not, so goodbye drones.

They wouldn't even need to shoot them down - denial of service via electronic warfare would be completely possible.

Haggisman · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:57

Phantom Shadow said:
Drones will probably need to land at some point, a perfect time to do a raid and take them.

If they go for a swarm approach then really there would be no reason for them to ever have to land. Solar powered so no need to charge/change battery, have enough of them that if a few fail, the remainder can take up the slack until replacements can be deployed.

krooton · 2 Jun 2014 at 14:59

Tony Stark, your future is now!

Atlas23 · 2 Jun 2014 at 15:15

ARRRHHH BOARD THE DRONES LADS! THERE BE FILMS TO PLUNDER!

Devrij · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:01

Haggisman said:
If they go for a swarm approach then really there would be no reason for them to ever have to land. Solar powered so no need to charge/change battery, have enough of them that if a few fail, the remainder can take up the slack until replacements can be deployed.

Could you solar power a drone? Surely the surface area required to keep props going indefinitely while powering the electronics would be too large to fit on the drone? What happens at night or on cloudy days. Never going to happen like that.

Judgeneo · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:09

Devrij said:
Could you solar power a drone? Surely the surface area required to keep props going indefinitely while powering the electronics would be too large to fit on the drone? What happens at night or on cloudy days. Never going to happen like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse

We're not far off never landing drones using solar power.

Haggisman · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:11

Devrij said:
Could you solar power a drone? Surely the surface area required to keep props going indefinitely while powering the electronics would be too large to fit on the drone? What happens at night or on cloudy days. Never going to happen like that.

A quick Google shows an Rpi uses ~ 2.5w, and an "average" solar panel generates ~100w/sqm during peak hours... so it would have to be a very big, light solar panel

arctine · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:13

What a load of ********.

V F · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:17

Atlas23 said:
ARRRHHH BOARD THE DRONES LADS! THERE BE FILMS TO PLUNDER!

Lol!

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:19

As long as they make to drones look like pirate ships, I'll be happy.

MassiveJim · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:23

Haggisman said:
A quick Google shows an Rpi uses ~ 2.5w, and an "average" solar panel generates ~100w/sqm during peak hours... so it would have to be a very big, light solar panel

and how much wattage does the motor use that will be keeping the drone in the air ??

Atlas23 · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:25

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle said:
As long as they make to drones look like pirate ships, I'll be happy.

arctine · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:27

MassiveJim said:
and how much wattage does the motor use that will be keeping the drone in the air ??

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Cosimo · 2 Jun 2014 at 16:28

arctine said:
What a load of ********.

Just what I was thinking.

adolf hamster · 2 Jun 2014 at 17:02

Judgeneo said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse

We're not far off never landing drones using solar power.

i'm not so sure, the earth's perimeter is 24900 odd miles, and rotates once every 24 hours, therefore to remain over a spot relative to the sun aforementioned vehicle would need to do roughly 1000mph at the equator to keep ahead of the night, pretty sure solar panels couldnt cut it for a machine with that much power. and thats before you look at the fact you'd need to go over all sorts of countries airspace to acheive that.

presuming you could get a drone that could last for a 12hr night on battery power alone it wouldn't be too bad, if the panels would be able to charge it up fully every single day [and that every single day is sunny].

probably easier to use ships tbh

edit: got earths perimeter wrong lol, its 24900 odd miles

Judgeneo · 2 Jun 2014 at 17:12

adolf hamster said:
i'm not so sure, the earth's perimeter is 24900 odd miles, and rotates once every 24 hours, therefore to remain over a spot relative to the sun aforementioned vehicle would need to do roughly 1000mph at the equator to keep ahead of the night, pretty sure solar panels couldnt cut it for a machine with that much power. and thats before you look at the fact you'd need to go over all sorts of countries airspace to acheive that.

presuming you could get a drone that could last for a 12hr night on battery power alone it wouldn't be too bad, if the panels would be able to charge it up fully every single day [and that every single day is sunny].

probably easier to use ships tbh

edit: got earths perimeter wrong lol, its 24900 odd miles

The plane I posted was just an example of how far solar powered flight has come - as you have pointed out the technology is entirely inappropriate for geo-stationary orbit.

Thankfully if we're looking at low-orbit, and we don't needs lots a manoeuvrability, a solar powered blimp of some sorts would work just fine. It wouldn't be hard to create one that could sit up there for a week or two at a time - we've already got military grade ones (UK made yo) that can sit for a lot longer than that with much larger equipment on-board.

adolf hamster · 2 Jun 2014 at 17:19

a blimp is a good point, although helium would need periodic refilling afaik. tbh given its international waters a boat would be perfect, like the old pirate radio stations.