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Literally yesterday i pitched to my wife that i cant wait till i have some personal drone that ca evaporate and deflect raindrops before they fall on me. Essentially creating a flying rain shield.
Did not expect to be a step closer today already.
Are you meaning using a laser on the drone to evaporate the drops? That causes issues. Though maybe one could just put a waterproof shield on a drone with a particularly strong motor to resist winds, to just act like a regular umbrella that you don't have to carry. Seems impractically noisy and power hungry though
I don’t think i mean all that much. Its mostly a fantasy/dream cause I regularly have to walk through rain.
I am not expecting anything like it in at least 15 years but as fan of the whole “post-scarcity ai automated luxury gay space communism“ i can imagine a few scifi ways to do it like directly shooting individual nano-engineered artificial photons at every single drop that is calculated to otherwise hit me.