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Drone photography 10-Apr-2018 At 9:36:12 AM BA

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I remember when we were walking out of Africa and somebody on one of those new fangled horse things went by. We thought it would never last, I mean how were you going to control the thing, surely it would end up trampling people. Then there was the fuel for it, what were the cattle going to eat and the horses would certainly drink all the water from the water holes.

I remember when horses became the norm and we used hawser laid hemp ropes to save them from running amok.

I remember when we had to put shoes on them, proper shoes with vibram soles and nails, sure they made a noise but it was better than these stealth shoes they wear now.

I remember when the cattle became a problem as well. Forever sneaking up behind us and suddenly bellowing out a loud MOOO and frightening us. We fixed that by putting cow bells made from hexagonal aluminium around their necks.

And yes, I remember when cars became a neccessity to get to distant places like Hanging Rock, Camels Hump, The Grampians and that most distant of all places called Mount Arapiles.

And yes, drones are annoying, especially in the suburbs. They seem to be used by architects and real esate agents in our area before any redevelopment.

In a recent issue of New Scientist there was an article about how to disrupt them, mostly they involved stopping the rotors which means they would then drop out of the sky onto anybody/anything below them. Blasting them with radio waves to disrupt their control system has the same problem and it doesn't affect autonomous drones. There was even a photo of a large eagle grabbing one in midair, but the main problem was ensuring the eagle didn't get sidetracked into hunting for its lunch.