Amazon Files Patent For Flying Warehouse

[DiaSin]

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38458867

 

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Amazon has filed a patent for massive flying warehouses equipped with fleets of drones that deliver goods to key locations.

Carried by an airship, the warehouses would visit places Amazon expects demand for certain goods to boom.

It says one use could be near sporting events or festivals where they would sell food or souvenirs to spectators.

The patent also envisages a series of support vehicles that would be used to restock the flying structures.

 

Amazon continues to expand their vision for the future with this "warehouse mothership" idea. I can't see this taking off (no pun intended) any time soon, but its a cool concept. 

[Guest]

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's a flying Amazon warehouse in the sky

[Guest]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

WAIT NO IT IS A PLANE

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rest in peace 9/11 victims

 

flying warehouses equipped with fleets of drones

[patrickjp93]

PFFFT! It's a glorified cargo plane. This should not be granted. It's like cargo drops, just more controlled.

[patrickjp93]

1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

more like an aircraft carrier

 

Also, have you seen some of the shit Apple's patented? This is far from ridiculous.

No, it's equally ridiculous. It's not a mechanism. It's prior art with a twist small enough you may as well call it a wrinkle.

[Prysin]

3 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's a flying Amazon warehouse in the sky

soon there will be sky-pirates flying blimps

[DELTAprime]

5 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

PFFFT! It's a glorified cargo plane. This should not be granted. It's like cargo drops, just more controlled.

Please the USPTO awards patents for anything these days, this will get granted even tho it's basically an airborne aircraft carrier.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_aircraft_carrier

[Misanthrope]

I hope it looks like this:

[raphidy]

Here we go, protoss carriers with drones on the way.

[rattacko123]

[spamy666]

29 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

NO! MY PC PARTS!!!

[zMeul]

[Snadzies]

While reading the article all I could here in my head was the Mario 3 airship music.

 

 

[Misanthrope]

2 hours ago, spamy666 said:

NO! MY PC PARTS!!!

Now all of the GPUs will be overpriced for months due to scarcity! SHIT!

[Wolther]

It would cost way too much to keep that amount of mass in the air, would it not?

[suicidalfranco]

if it can carry more weight than cargo plane than great! wonder if blimps can travel as fast as container ships 

[ZackBarletto]

This would be awesome. If they can use enough solar energy and maybe a lot of surface area, they may be able to kinda drift and float around.

 

Idk the carrying capacity of a blimp, but something like it slowly drifting in key areas offering 2 hour delivery via drone. lmao

[Ridska]

was ganna make a Hindenburg joke , but i guess that opportunity went up in flames.  

[HalGameGuru]

I KNEW there would be a future for dirigibles. NOW FOR FLOATING CITIES!

[Energycore]

8 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

snipped an image with an explosive blimy

That's when people learnt that flammable material in a balloon = bad

And so they started to use helium

[HalGameGuru]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

That's when people learnt that flammable material in a balloon = bad

And so they started to use helium

Helium had been used for a long time. But the best source for it is in the US, and we didn't want the Germans to have any

[Energycore]

Just now, HalGameGuru said:

Helium had been used for a long time. But the best source for it is in the US, and we didn't want the Germans to have any

lol you greedy fucks

[HalGameGuru]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

lol you greedy fucks

This was post WWI. There were concerns with giving the germans a safe and effective means of intercontinental warfare.

[yamileon]

is it april already ? 

[Energycore]

3 minutes ago, HalGameGuru said:

This was post WWI. There were concerns with giving the germans a safe and effective means of intercontinental warfare.

I gotcha just wanted to make a jab