Drone racing sells robot soul to Mammon with launch of racing league

Thursday 13th August 2015 11:14 GMT g e

Micro Machines mini drone league needed!

As per title

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Thursday 13th August 2015 13:01 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon

Sir

Watched the video...

Oh..

My...

Fucking...

God...

'There may be trouble ahead...'

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1. Thursday 13th August 2015 14:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Sir
  
  For deaf immobile targets who mysteriously explode when shot with small calibre machine gun rounds ....
  
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  1. Thursday 13th August 2015 18:49 GMT Mark 85
    
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    You noticed that also... Just amazing the Hollywood style explosions from this.
    
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Thursday 13th August 2015 13:06 GMT Simon Harris

"The Register enthusiastically awaits the weaponising of these hobby drones"

And I enthusiastically await the return of Philippa Forrester to do her Robot Wars style interviews with the crews.

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Thursday 13th August 2015 13:08 GMT Anonymous Coward

So they're gonna start the race at Kennedy airport, fly to Newark, then to LaGuardia, and back to Kennedy?

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Thursday 13th August 2015 13:08 GMT Ralph B

Surprised

I'm surprised they didn't go with World Drone Racing League. Maybe it's because this is a sport that the rest of the world might actually want to play too.

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Thursday 13th August 2015 13:11 GMT disgruntled yank

sexy?

Is it time for The Register to get out of the house and get some fresh air?

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Thursday 13th August 2015 15:26 GMT JP19

"The hitherto sexy underground world of drone racing"

Really that is a thing?

For spectators sounds about as exciting as watching scalextric racing.

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Thursday 13th August 2015 15:46 GMT TeeCee

Drone racing.

I can't help thinking that some enterprising hobbyist is going to turn up with a good, old-fashioned, racing radio controlled aircraft and hand all the drone 'copter lads their arses on a plate.

Tagging 'em with the D-word doesn't make aerial ROVs anything new......

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Thursday 13th August 2015 19:37 GMT SteveWaclo

FPV nausea

While a moment or two of FPV is tolerable for me, I soon feel the strong urge for a technicolor yawn and sense many share this unpleasant sensation. Imagine watching football through a Go Pro :(.

Until more tolerable methods of watching the festivities are developed, I shall pass.

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Friday 14th August 2015 07:37 GMT Gartal

That is fucking awful

As stated

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Friday 18th September 2015 14:24 GMT sunspot

Boring?? You'll be watching through VR goggles through a camera mounted on the front of the aircraft as it careens at 60MPH and faster through a forest. Remember that scene in Star Wars? Yeah, what a snoozer...

Boring? How about baseball, where most of the time everybody stands around scratching their butts.Or football, where nothing is going on most of the time. Or your football, our soccer, bunch of people running around and never scoring anything. All that crap is the biggest bore on TV. Wait till the drone you're riding on board with whaps into a tree, you'll smudge your undies...

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