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Sorry, but who are you? Who are you to stand up and call Amazon's idea unviable?

Why is their idea unviable? Because they have no proof?

Well you certainly proved how unviable the idea is with your lack of proof.

Quite frankly, when it comes to Bezos vs "ye", I have to say that the billionaire owner of one of the most successful stores in our world is SLIGHTLY more credible than "ye", random commenter who has no domain experience and no evidence for literally a single word they said.

I mean honestly, in a conversation about credibility and evidence, you thought providing neither makes for a good argument?

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What an absolutely vacuous response. We can't possibly question the almighty Bezos once he issues a plan from on high?

Give me a break. There are a lot of technical issues to drones that should be evident to most people, no matter "who they are". I'm at a loss to understand why you think they shouldn't be able to voice that.

Why is their idea unviable? Because they have no proof?

Proof is usually a good start, yeah.

Sorry, but who are you?

WTF is this? I'd love to see these things flying in SF bay (windspeed:25 knts) or SoCal during the Santa Anas (30kts sustained). That doesn't mean its likely to happen with a quick and dirty solution, at least on the tech side. But who knows, maybe on the people-org side you can have a real-time delivery window that just side-steps the problem. But the appeal to "authority" here is just BS and gets in the way of a real discussion. Synchophants vs Naysayers is not a debate.

Who are you? Why are you drinking the kool-aid?

This is a very obvious PR move to get more clicks on a major shopping week and squelch a developing news story about Amazon's labor practices in the UK.

Amazon may well deliver books to me with a mini-helicopter in 2018. But they absolutely will sell more stuff due to the Prime Air attention, and will slow down the momentum on negative press that might send some holiday shoppers elsewhere. I find the idea that a billionaire owner of THE premier ecommerce business would come up with such a plan very credible.

It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.

Comparatively inexpensive (<$500) consumer quadcopters already have 100% payload fractions (e.g. 1lb of payload per lb of vehicle weight), so 1.5:1 isn't such a jump from there.

There seems to be a bee in your bonnet. The person you just berated baselessly pointed out some of the practical problems with this endeavour. He didn't say they couldn't be overcome.

He seemed to be implying it, though.

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