#customised drones

[msaadbeing]

Watch Pieces Become Purpose! 🛠️🚁 From a table full of parts to a sky-soaring drone - don't blink, you'll miss it!

[techdriveplay]

DJI's Avinox Drive System Wins Eurobike Award 2024

DJI, a global pioneer in drone and camera technology, has taken a significant leap into the e-bike industry with the introduction of the Avinox Drive System at Eurobike 2024. This innovative e-bike drive system promises to transform the electric mountain bike (eMTB) landscape, earning the coveted “Winner” award in the Components category at the prestigious event. “The DJI Avinox Drive System…

[polo-drone-073]

The Optimisation of a Living Being

Conversion in the city with T.

It was a cool but dry November evening. The city of T was bathed in a soft glow of lights, and Andi enjoyed walking through the streets again after a long time. Having travelled all the way from the suburbs, he breathed in the fresh air and took in the charm of the illuminated city centre.

Then he noticed it.

A strangely dressed creature stood motionless by St George's Fountain. It was human-like - and yet alien. The head was bald, the face expressionless. The clothes were immaculate: a shiny black Fred Perry polo shirt - in the cold November - tight-fitting black trousers and mid-height boots. The material reflected the light from the lanterns and looked almost artificial.

Andi faltered. Something about this apparition irritated him. The movements - if it moved at all - were mechanical, precise, as if they were following an invisible command. No restlessness, no hesitation, just pure discipline.

A shiver ran down his spine. Fear? Perhaps. And yet...

He couldn't look away.

His steps slowed, his gaze remained riveted on this creature. He wanted to keep his distance. Or did he? No, that wasn't true. It wasn't him who was approaching - it was something inside him that drew him towards this being. A gentle, invisible pull that seemed to guide every fibre of his body.

He wasn't sure whether he was walking himself - or whether he was already being guided.

When Andi was in the immediate vicinity, the creature spoke to him: “Andi.”

The voice was calm, smooth, a gentle whisper of authority and perfection. Andi stopped, blinking.

“Huh? How do you know my name?”

PDU-070 turned to him slowly, his gaze firm, deep, unwavering.

“You were being watched. You have been chosen. Your destiny lies before you.”

Andi laughed uncertainly. “Oh man, what is this? Who are you anyway?”

PDU-070 raised an arm and slowly opened a hand. In it lay a shiny, immaculate black polo with gold accents.

“This is order. Perfection. Destiny. You will wear it.”

Andi stared at the fabric, at the shiny material that reflected softly in the light of the lanterns. His breath hitched.

“I... no, that's silly.” But his voice was less firm.

PDU-070 tilted his head slightly.

“Touch it.”

Andi's fingers twitched. One instinct told him to run. Another... told him to stay. His gaze remained fixed on the polo, on the hypnotic gleam.

Slowly, he lifted a hand and let his fingers glide over the fabric.

A shudder ran through him.

It was cool, smooth, perfect. Like a promise. Like an answer to a question, he had never consciously asked.

PDU-070 spoke again: “Put it on.!”

Andi swallowed. His thoughts became confused. Why not? It felt right, didn't it? His hands moved before his mind fully realised. He took off a puffer jacket and the shirt he was wearing underneath. Then he put on the polo and slowly pulled it over his head.

The material clung to him perfectly. The buttons fastened all the way to the top as if by magic. Andi realised how a twitch ran through his body and how his posture tightened. He didn't feel any cold on his arms, although it was actually cool. His gaze became calmer. Thoughts... disappeared.

PDU-070 watched him, analysed, checked.

The first step had been taken. “Identity overwritten. Designation: PDU-073. Integration complete.”

Andi's - no, PDU-073's - breathing was calm. He stood upright, motionless.

Even though PDU-070 said that the integration was complete, this was only the beginning. Later in the hive, the new drone would undergo further customisation. By now in the Polo drone uniform, he, no it soon found himself in a golden laboratory.

Strapped to a leather chair with a kind of VR in front of his eyes, the remnants of a human consciousness were erased, his independent thinking, his rebellion - whether this will sprout up again and again in the future but will then also be successfully erased again.

So what has changed in the being, apart from the fact that the human Andi has become the drone PDU-073? Quite a lot. 070 took him under his wing and trimmed him into the perfect drone that follows logical structures, even if these are not yet 100% implemented everywhere in the hive's system.

PDU-073

follows all commands from the hive, caps and bros without questioning them with a precision that a human would never be able to deliver

does not cause any errors, emotions or suboptimal control. That doesn't exist with a drone.

has no ego, it acts in unity with the other PDU in perfect synchrony with the hive.

The drone, whose former existence was often in doubt, is now controlled by the destiny that the hive gives the PDU.

Is no longer an individual. It resembles every other drone in every way. It is synchronised with all of them. Only in this way can joint action be optimised down to the smallest iota.

All of Andi's human weaknesses have been erased - forever! The transformation into a drone is irreversible.

It's another link in the perfect chain of unity in the Polo Drone Hive.

Do you also want to become a Polo drone? Contact our recruiters: @brodygold , @goldenherc9 or @polo-drone-001

Greetings to its Polo-Drone.Converter @polo-drone-070

[quebec-canada]

Créateurs de contenu Québecois (ou de la francophonie) sur YouTube

J'ai décidé de faire une liste pratique de liens vers des chaines YouTube québécoises (ou de la francophonie canadienne) que je vais épingler tout en haut du blog, donc facile à trouver!

Capitaine Montréal - Chaine d'un amoureux de Montréal animée par Ugo Bergeron

CHESTBRAS - Chaine des fameux sketchs Chest Bras et Synvain Rénove

Coralie St-Georges - Chaines de vidéos sur l'actualité, culture populaire, histoires troublantes, lifestlye et vlogs

Diplodocus Comédie - Chaine de sketchs humoristiques de Jean-François Bibeau

Le François Pérusse - Chaine de François Pérusse

Gurky - Chaine de Gurky, testeur de plein de choses

Haunted Montreal | Montréal Hanté - Ça parle de soi?!

Histoires de Crimes par Marie - Chaine de crime animée par Marie

L'Histoire nous le dira - Chaine à contenu historique animée par Laurent Turcot

Horreur FM - Critique de film d'horreur ici sur YouTube et sur Horreur Québec

Le Jeu C'est Sérieux - Chaine de collection de jeux vidéos animée par Guiz et Laurent

Kev [WTFKeV] - Chaine d'humour irrévérencieux animée par Kev

Ma Prof de Français - Chaine d'apprentissage et d compréhension du français québécois animée par Geneviève

ONF - Chaine de l'Office National du Film

Pi AIR; - Chaine de vidéos des paysages et villes de la Montérégie prises par drone (ou hélico?)

Propos Montréal - Un blogue urbain et une chaîne YouTube éducative

RBO - Chaine de Rock et Belles Oreilles

Starlight Dream Dolls - Chaine de customisation de poupées. L'auteur fait ses vidéos en anglais pour avoir un plus grand auditoire, mais il est 100% franco (un ami <3 )

Testeur Alpha - Chaine de jeu vidéos animée par Alpha

Tousqui Annie - Chaine de couture et de crafting animée par Annie (une amie <3 )

URBANIA - Chaine du magazine URBANIA et hébergeur du podcast Les Pires Moments de l'Histoire de Charles Beauchesne

Victoria Charlton - Chaine de crime animée par Victoria Charlton

WTFKeV Podcast - Podcasts de Kev (WTFKeV)

[aggravateddurian]

Babe, Wake Up! New Chorus OC just dropped!

This is my last post of the day, I swear. I've just been putting a lot of hours into Chorus and new OCs at the moment.

You're probably already familiar with Val (seen here in her 2079 Chorus guise, per her new lore), but have a look at the cutie to the right. That's Chet Reid, and he's Val's boyfriend in this timeline.

Full Name: Chet DeShea Reid Date of Birth: 17 March 2048 Affiliation: NUSA (former), NUS Army (former), Afterlife Mercs

Quick Chet Facts:

Chet identifies as straight. Val is his third actual relationship.

Chet was born in Ohio and moved to Night City after leaving the NUS Army.

Chet served in the Unification War. He is not proud of his service with the NUS Army.

Chet holds a special emnity for Rosalind Myers, whom he blames for the death of his friends.

Chet trained as a sniper in the Army. He claims to be the best sniper of any living Afterlife Merc.

Chet and Val met when they were hired for the same gig.

Chet has a sister, Monique, who he hasn't heard from in five years.

Full lore below the Blackwall

Chet Lore:

Chet DeShea Reid was born in Dayton, Ohio, in March 2048. His parents served in the NUS Aerospace Force, and were stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB. Chet surprised his parents by enlisting in the NUS Army in 2066 as a 19D Cavalry Scout. He was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (The First Team) based in Oklahoma. He primarily did border enforcement work.

Specialist Reid fought during the Unification War in 2069-2070. He earned numerous commendations and was promoted to Sergeant. He was recommended for promotion to Staff Sergeant, but elected to leave the Army in 2072 and move to the only place he knew that the NUSA didn't have its grubby mitts was Night City. Chet entered the only occupation he knew the second he arrived in Night City - Solo.

He proclaims to be the best sniper of any Afterlife Merc, and to be fair, he may be right. He keeps his girlfriend covered from behind the scope of his Nekomata, while she goes in and turns the enemy from single homogenous entities to so much cauterised sashimi. With their optical sensors linked, Chet can literally shoot the enemy through walls, so long as either he, Val or his customised Wyvern drone have eyes on.

His relationship with Valerie Ocampo-Gonzalez began in 2074. The pair met when they were hired by Regina Jones to kill a notorious Maelstrom ganger who terrorised the wrong victim, kidnapping a rich corpo's daughter and borging her out, before releasing the borderline cyberpsychotic 19-year-old high school graduate into the middle of Japantown, naked, afraid and high on just about every drug Maelstrom had access to.

The pair hit it off, and soon they were living together in an apartment in Megabuilding H10, about a level above V's apartment. While Chet had passing contact with V, they never really spoke, let alone knew that the other was an edgerunner. By 2079, he and his girlfriend of five years (by that point) were fairly well-known in the Afterlife, and had fallen into the scopes of Nightowl, a mid-league fixer who primarily organised jobs in and around Santo Domingo, succeeding Muamar 'El Capitan' Reyes, who became a 'used' car salesman.

[skullsandseances]

Book Review 2023-2024

I'm a book lover through and through. I have a Kindle to help my old 32yr old brain and eyes comprehend the text better than it would be on paper as it;s fully customisable.

I've tried to get into adult fantasy the past couple of years but I have some beef. The books all feel the same. the formula is the same. They're written in such a primary way that's not giving anything fun towards the world building or the sense of real danger for these characters.

The part of the formula I have issue with comes from the fact that they're all written in hope to be scouted by Netflix and have their work turned into a TV Series and make $$$$$.

Fourth Wing went back and forth between decent fun writing and some scrap a 16 yr old wrote on Wattpad. SO MANY TIMES I have to put the book down to cringe at the shit ass writing, or push through the boring parts.

Speaking of boring. Oh my GOD. A COURT OF THORNES AND ROSES. I bought it for $2 sale on Kindle and I could barley push through after the part where she was in the cave as a hostage. Like shit it was so Airy Fairy bullshit I don't understand how Anyone could read it and think "I'm Obsessed"

My current favourite read is "The Cat and the City" it's a book about day to day life from the point of view of different people in Tokyo and how their lives intertwine each other. It's a beautiful read. I'm sad the author has only 1 other book. Another book I found good/decent was Nevernight by Jay Kristoff. His writing style takes a bit to get use to but once you're in you're IN. I'll read the Nevernight series one day.

For now I'm reading The Hunger Games trilogy. the first book was awesome, the second felt it was droning on with Katniss's apathetic inner monologue so I'm giving it a break before the 3rd book to read The Cat and the City.

[alln64games]

Extreme-G

NA release: 27th October 1997

PAL release: 9th December 1997

JP release: 29th May 1998

Developer: Probe

Publisher: Acclaim

N64 Magazine Score: 87%

This is one I played a lot when I was younger. An extremely fast futuristic racing game on tron-like sci-fi motorbikes. It’s a proper competition-based racing game (where all the racers start at the same place, not an overtaking arcade racer) and has a bunch of weapons thrown into the mix.

The biggest criticism about Extreme-G is probably the handling, which does not manage to keep up with the speed of the bikes. To counter this, the developers added a bunch of things to ease the frustration. Walls don’t slow you down that much (they do slightly damage your shields) and the sides of the track have a kind of “energy barrier” that keeps you on the track. Respawning after falling off is also very quick. Even using the cheat to make the game even faster, making mistakes in races never feels annoying.

There are weapons dotted across the track that you can pick up, which come in lots of slight variations. These have a smaller immediate impact on racers than the likes of Mario Kart, but do whittle away shields (you also have a laser you have access to at any time to do extra damage to shields). However, the weapons are difficult to use effectively and ones like the cannons are more likely to harm you than your opponents.

Extreme-G has a good amount of tracks (compared to other racers at the time on N64, at least), although they do tend to blur a bit together due to the winding nature of them. There’s a track set around some lava games that’s the most difficult track in the game (by a massive margin), and the final track is a futuristic forest with Santorini-inspired buildings and UFOs flying around and looks absolutely gorgeous.

On top of the standard league mode, there’s time trial, practice and a shoot-’em-up mode where you have to blast drones. The multiplayer also has a battle mode in unique arenas, so there’s a good amount of stuff to do in the game.

Extreme-G is still a lot of fun, and manages to feel different to both Wipeout and F-Zero.

And, if nothing else, Extreme G is wonderful to look at. It marries Blade Runner and Alton Towers to awesome effect and, speed-wise, beats Wipeout at its own game.

- Tim Weaver, N64 Magazine #9

Remake or remaster?

An Extreme-G collection would be wonderful to see. Just do some minor improvements like properly implemented widescreen and customisable controls, perhaps even add weapon icons to the HUD. Unfortunately, IP owners Throwback Entertainment seem uninterested in the franchise, only re-releasing the poor PC port of the second game, lacking analogue steering or proper controller support.

Official ways to get the game.

There is no official way to get Extreme-G

[merryfortune]

Love at First Sight Notes

Written for the Yu-Ri-Oh! GL Dictionary - Doodle

Title: Love At First Sight Notes

Ship: Doodleshipping | Amane/Shizuka

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Word Count: 1,839

Rating: T

Prompt Entry: Doodle (verb). To draw or scribble absent-mindedly.

Tags: Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Attraction at First Sight, Mutual Attraction, Meet-Cute, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Flirting, Confessions, Getting Together

   From the very first minute Bakura Amane had stepped into the classroom, Shizuka’s attention went from her sheetwork and her stationary to her. Only her. Even as the teacher droned on and on about the new transfer student and to treat her nicely and yada-yada-yada. It was blah, blah, blah for Shizuka. In one ear and out the other all whilst she made goo-goo eyes at this girl in the front of the classroom. 

   That was up until her ears pricked on something very, very important.  “Look, there is a free seat next to Kawai-san.” 

   Shizuka could have sworn her heart just leapt out of her chest. The way it burst, it gave her quite the shock as she watched - stunned - as the transfer student was pointed in her direction. She couldn’t believe her luck to have such a cute girl so close to her.

   And Bakura Amane was a cutie.

   She had such pale skin - like a ghost! - and her hair was the purest white - like snow! - and the way she customised her uniform? It was oh so daring, Shizuka couldn’t help but admire the little hints of the dark and the occult matched with the overt pink and blues of their preppy school uniforms, it was quite the combination. She loved how Amane accessorised with the black bow under the white, sailor collar of hers and the 80’s style fluffy socks and the little skull motif of her earrings that just poked out through the cascades of her hair. She was just a darling straight out of a fashion magazine.

   She was really different to a lot of people Shizuka knew and she knew some weird ones thanks to her brother. Actually, now that she thought about it… What exactly were the odds of two people with white hair both sharing the family name “Bakura”? Shizuka couldn’t bring herself to ask, she felt like she was gawking and with all these clumsy flirty questions on her tongue? No way she could bring herself to talk to Amane.

   Looking at her, however… Stealing glances and indulging in glimpses, that much Shizuka could handle. Shizuka tried to focus on her work but she only ever pretended to do it, twiddling with her pens to look busy but all she ended up doing was write Amane’s name over and over again the margins, like a child practising his hiragana for the first time. 

   Shizuka really, simply could not help herself. Her heart was pounding as she strove to get hints and pieces of what this girl sitting next to her may have been like. A switch was just flipped for Shizuka and so, she just had to keep shyly and sneakily shoot her shot. Over and over again, replacing strands of her hair behind her ear again just so her peripherals were unblocked but soon enough. The peripheries weren’t enough and Shizuka had to turn her head again.

   Her flirting was not exactly coy as she looked at Amane at every chance and cool down she got. All because, well, it's just that Amane really was a sight for sore eyes, making Shizuka really glad that she had been able to get her operation. Amane was pretty like a model and eclectic in her own way, it really drew Shizuka in and then again for more and more.

   Shizuka couldn’t keep her eyes off her but she tried, as best as she could. Which really wasn’t much but Shizuka, for one, thought she was being totally sneaky, fooling both Amane and the teacher. Yeah, that didn’t last long.

   Amane giggled as she finally caught Shizuka’s eyes through the curtain of her long, brown hair. Shizuka could have sworn she saw fangs in the corners of Amane’s mouth, her lips were a nude pink but a teeny-tiny bit sparkly. She was definitely wearing lip balm, Shizuka deduced as she felt her own face go a much darker shade of pink than nude.

   “It's good to meet you.” she said and she had a voice like silk.

   Shizuka could have swooned but luckily, she kept her composure as she introduced herself back. It was only right, they were desk neighbours. Classmates. And soon enough, friends.

   That last one was going to become the bane of the teacher’s existence. She never should have paired them up beside one another because the chatter did not stop once the breaks were over.

   At first it was fine, Shizuka awkwardly waited until the first break of the day before she really got talking - and gushing - to Amane. They got all the things figured out. Star signs, blood types, and who their brothers were and Shizuka had been right. Their older brothers were friends, too. What were the odds, seriously? Little sister supremacy for sure was established and after that, all their favourite things.

   As well as a few things they disliked. Like hospitals, for example. Amane shared how she had survived a car accident and Shizuka described her own medical issues which had resulted in eye-related surgeries. That, in of itself, just cemented their budding bond all the more, giving them plenty of room on either side for inside jokes they couldn’t really make around anyone else. Including their brothers. 

   But soon enough, over the course of a few more school days and school weeks, and hanging out on the afternoons and weekends and evenings in between, they were more than just fast friends. They were best friends and even sometimes girlfriends. 

   They hadn’t kissed or anything. Shizuka really wished they would kiss. She thought way too much about how it would feel, emotionally and physically. Not to mention it would demystify the nuances of what they felt towards each other but there was more to romantic relationships than just kissing. 

   It was intimacy and it was lingering glances and brushes of their hands. It was even being mistaken for a couple here and there, it was covering each other’s expenses at the burger joint Anzu worked at and little things like that. It was the exciting moments, too, but the more mundane moments which had Shizuka yearning for it to last forever. There was being besties like other girls were besties with each other but then there were these moments which were a little too intense, a little too charged that left Shizuka wondering.

   It was sometimes a little hard to tell but Shizuka wanted to ask. Either to make it official or to clarify otherwise but she was pretty certain that the feelings went both ways. Amane just had a very drifty, dreamy personality, the type to flirt without realising it and if she did, then it was a joke meant to wind Shizuka, or whoever, up. Though, it was that lackadaisical twistedness of Amane’s that was so strangely charming.

   So, once again, Shizuka found herself like she had all that while ago when she had first met Amane. She was staring again and Amane was flashing her smiles of her own as they tried to do their schoolwork but it wasn’t the right notes they ended up taking. 

   Shizuka thought she was being on the sly as she passed a folded up note of lined paper she had torn out the back of her workbook to Amane next to her. That gap wasn’t big but it felt huge and vulnerable as Shizuka gave it to Amane who accepted it without looking.

   She unfolded the basic, square folds of the paper and read the note. The corners of her mouth quirked, pleased, as her eyes lit up. Amane, following on the trend of being sneaky, flicked her hand over and quickly scribbled up a reply. She waited a moment, until the teacher’s back was turned, and then passed the note back to Shizuka.

   Shizuka accepted it way too greedily. She felt her heart pounding like a hammer against her ribs inside her chest as she did her best to not tear apart the note. The folds and creases were a little messier than they had begun with but the note inside was worth it.

   I like you. Do you like me?

   Shizuka’s handwriting was loopy and girly, she had practised hard for so long to make it pretty, meanwhile Amane’s was absolute chicken scratch by comparison.

   Of course <3 

   Simple and straightforward was better than purple prose had been Shizuka’s philosophy when she had first scripted up her note to Amane but now she had to worry. She wasn’t certain if Amane had gotten the subtext, Shizuka began to draw over the note, interweaving between the blue lines of the page. Paying way more attention to it than the Japanese literature class their teacher was trying to teach. Even Shizuka could feel the lovey-dovey aura of a schoolgirl with a crush emanate off her as she drew flowers and hearts and bows.

   After a couple minutes of idling away with her pen and paper, Shizuka folded it up and passed it onto Amane. Amane accepted it and so began the rally. She passed it back to Shizuka promptly and her reply had Shizuka kicking her legs underneath her desk.

   Would you be my girlfriend?

   Of course <333

   And from there, the just wanted to chatter on and on and on. They passed the note to and fro, it becoming more wrinkled and drawn on with each volley between either girl. The pen ink that scrawled on the paper now spanned black, blue, and red. There were love-hearts and flowers, bows and skulls, drawings of eyes both realistic and anime to adorn their letters. Their original messages long since written and drawn over as space became too precious to waste. It was atrocious but it was theirs.

   Shizuka and Amane were both getting caught up in this aura of theirs. It was as if the rest of the classroom didn’t exist amid their little confessional notes. She said yes, she liked her and her liked she. It was amazing, they were both giddy, they would have been playing footsies if they could have, the squirming and the giggly, disrupting the whole classroom.

   Of course, eventually, it drew the ire of the teacher. She was the exact one who had set them up beside one another when Amane had been the brand, spanking new transfer student. A novelty. And now, she was the one who was breaking them up - and their silly little notes, too, without even reading them she tore them up.

   “Kawai-san, I expect better of you.” she huffed. “Detention for the both of you.”

   Shizuka giggled, blushing. She glanced at Amane who gave her a tiny wave with her hand from across the classroom now that they had been split up but it was fine. Detention was just yet more quality time they could spend together later, where they could clean up and collect the remnants of their love notes and all their silly, cutesy doodles. Important souvenirs of their little classroom confession - and yet more to talk about way down the line.

[my-words-are-light]

I am reading 'The Terraformers' by Annalee Newitz.

So I've been reading this fascinating book lately: The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. It's set far far far into the future where private corporations can even terraform planets very specifically into anything anyone wants. The specific planet this book is set on is Sask-E (or Sasky), which is marketed by Verdance as a "genuine pre-Pleistocene experience". Which heavily restricts the bodies people are allowed to "wear" there because bodies are extremely customisable and people can even live remotely through perfectly humanoid drones.

That bit about bodies is especially noteworthy because the book also has a lot of different ideas of "personhood". Lifeforms are literally made through a bio-mechanical process and decanted with intelligence. There's something corporations use called the "Intelligence Assessment" rating to determine what constitutes a "person" but everyone agrees it's nonsense and calls them InAss ratings. The main character, Destry, has a partner named Whisper that's a moose who is determined to be a Mount; their decanting process made Whisper only able to say monosyllabic words, which Destry agonises over. There are also "Blessed" who can only speak about their role (like shopkeepers). There are naked mole rats, moose, cows, robots, and more designated to be People because of how they were made to be intelligent. One cow person in the cast is traumatised—and genuinely so; it's not played for laughs in the slightest—by coming across a dairy farm full of cows with all the intelligence of livestock. The characters figure this is part of the "genuine pre-Pleistocene experience" and believe this is morally repugnant to the highest degree to make cows like this.

There's a bit later on where workers are pressured to figure out a train system for the main continent of Sask-E. Given that the world is still being terraformed and the characters are against so much as lighting a campfire in the name of carbon neutrality lest the world be tipped off its delicate balance, they determine that train tracks are unfeasible because the terraforming process means the tracks won't even be consistent let alone finished before the terraforming is done and the tracks will be useless. They come up with an alternative: flying trains that use a gravity mesh to fly.

At the council meeting where this is proposed, one character is against using a gravity mesh on anything that isn't a person. A moose in the meeting is against making anything that isn't a person at all. They decide that only people can truly serve the needs of other people by optimising the routes between cities. Plus, the flying train people can choose to do whatever they like; like the Boring Fleet responsible for carving out chambers for the volcano, they'll find it satisfying to do jobs their bodies excel at. Other characters aren't concerned that the Flying Train Fleet will be averse to designing optimal routes and travelling to hundreds of cities across the globe. Unanswered questions like "How will every city weigh in on their transit needs?", "How will we know when new trains, routes, or stations are needed?", and more can be answered by the train people themselves.

[scruggzi]

They didn't get the seal to knock in the vid, although it did bark a bit. I'm willing to believe that seals can knock and I'd argue that some seals (harbour seals for example) are less surprising than a walrus. They are smaller and easier to transport to random locations. Elephant seals are probably equal on the Spanish Inquisition scale because of the size.

Both are less surprising than fairies because fairies are easy to make, either by dressing up as one or employing simple, practical effects. You could put a really good one together with a decent puppet on fishing wire, a cheap drone and some LEDs. Or by customising one of the flying fairy toys on Amazon to make it look more realistic. It would admittedly be hard to get it to knock without crashing it but not impossible.

At close range, nobody can fake a walrus.

There’s no way..

[auckam]

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[universalaero1]

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What makes SAFT stand out is its ability to custom-engineer batteries that are purpose-built to serve different industries. The company doesn’t follow a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, it develops bespoke energy systems to match the highly specific needs of its clientele. Some of its major areas of expertise include:

Aerospace & Aviation: SAFT supplies high-performance batteries for aircraft emergency systems, cockpit instrumentation, flight data recorders, and even satellite propulsion systems.

Railway & Transportation: With solutions for onboard power, signaling systems, and backup energy, SAFT enhances the safety and efficiency of global transit systems.

Defence & Security: Their rugged battery systems are used in tactical communications, radar systems, surveillance drones, and submarines.

Telecommunications & Utilities: SAFT ensures seamless power delivery and backup support for critical infrastructure through robust stationary batteries.

Technological Mastery and Innovation

At the core of SAFT’s global dominance is its unwavering commitment to technological advancement. The company invests significantly in research and development to create batteries that are smarter, lighter, safer, and more environmentally friendly. Some of its notable technologies include:

Lithium-ion batteries: Widely used in aviation, defence, and medical devices for their high energy density and longer life cycle.

Nickel-based batteries: Known for durability, especially in extreme temperatures, these are commonly used in aerospace and railway applications.

Primary lithium batteries: Offering long shelf-life and high energy output, they serve applications where maintenance-free operation is crucial.

Their proprietary battery systems like Flex’ion® and Intensium® are modular, scalable, and designed to optimise performance while reducing environmental footprint.

Sustainability and the Energy Transition

As global industries transition toward net-zero emissions, SAFT is playing a pivotal role in supporting sustainable energy goals. The company is committed to developing solutions that not only meet today’s performance standards but also help reduce carbon emissions and promote cleaner energy storage alternatives. Whether it's enabling the growth of renewable energy grids or supporting electric aviation initiatives, SAFT is at the forefront of this green revolution.

Global Presence with a Local Touch

With manufacturing sites and R&D centres in Europe, North America, and Asia, SAFT serves customers in over 100 countries. Despite its global scale, the company maintains a customer-centric approach, delivering highly customised services, training, and post-installation support. It also collaborates closely with OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and regulatory bodies to ensure compliance and integration.

The Future of Energy Storage

As battery demands grow more complex with advancements in IoT, AI, and electrification, SAFT is well-positioned to address the challenges of tomorrow. Its forward-thinking strategies and investments in smart battery systems, AI-powered diagnostics, and predictive maintenance will help redefine energy reliability in both civil and industrial applications.

Conclusion

SAFT is more than just a battery manufacturer; it is a trusted technology partner for mission-critical sectors. With its heritage of excellence, focus on innovation, and commitment to sustainability, SAFT is setting new standards in energy storage—empowering industries to operate safely, efficiently, and with a view to a cleaner future.

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