>>15182380I like this one, I have some simple questions to go with it.
Say you're on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and you make a satellite call. You're 2,500km from any piece of land.
Since satellites don't exist, obviously your transmission just goes to a drone. How does the drone fly out that far? Even the largest, longest ranged drones like the Predator can only travel 1,200km before they're out of fuel. And that's not counting loitering, since the drone would obviously have to remain in place 24/7 to relay your call. One ton, 50-foot wingspan pieces of hardware would be falling out of the sky constantly.
But besides that, it'd need to relay the call to another drone, right? Even the strongest radio transmitters can't reach far beyond about 100km. So in fact you're not being shadowed at all times by one massive flying machine, you're being shadowed by a daisy chain of at least 25 of them. And so is literally every other person in the ocean at any given moment.
Who's building all of them? Who's fueling them? Where are they stored and repaired?
