http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/08/15/can-you-come-up-with-a-better-name-for-drones/
call them Independent Playstations.
I vote for "Flying Fourth Amendment Nullifiers".
"Independent Playstations?" Love it.
If you don't mind, post your picks on the blog. Might stimulate some creative thinking on the Interweb.
Michael
Drones is just fine. It's evocative of the mindless mass of bureaucrats the order the pilots to them domestically.
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Where's the warm and fuzzy, guys?
Michael
Quote from: DicedT on August 15, 2013, 05:42:33 PM
Where's the warm and fuzzy, guys?
Michael
It's well and good to use drones to kill bad guys.
But the domestic surveillance must end. You'll find little love here for people who run programs and yet can't read basic law like the Bill of Rights.
your favorite friendly eye in the sky bringing you traffic news with precision.
How about calling them, collectively, "Thought and Memory"?
orbiting beacons of freedom
he said with almost no sarcasim.
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It's well and good to use drones to kill bad guys.
But the domestic surveillance must end. You'll find little love here for people who run programs and yet can't read basic law like the Bill of Rights.
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I'm not sure there's much difference between a drone and your local police department running drug detection flights with manned aircraft and IR sensors. Or highway cameras that record license plates.
Michael
OK, if my above suggestion requires too much googling then how about this:
'SkyBuddies' or 'TruthPals'
Michael, in your post above- take out the front-slash in the first [/quote] and your formatting is good to go.
I'll do it the old-fashioned way and repost.
I'm not sure there's much difference between a drone and your local police department running drug detection flights with manned aircraft and IR sensors. Or highway cameras that record license plates.
My addition is Obamanators, but I like the "orbiting beacons of freedom" entry better.
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I like either 'Bawb' or 'Ronnie's Rayguns.'
Freebirds
"Ronnie's Rayguns" is missile defense. Another fun topic for names.
Michael
Well, I for one welcome our new drone overlords......etc, etc...........
as with all equipment, when you give it a name your usually get a secondary name that the troops actually use.
the A-10 Thunderbolt became the Warthog, the F-16 Fighting Falcon became the Viper and so on.
if we name drones Freebirds then by default theyll be known as Skynyrds.
^lol
Skynyrds works for me. I would proudly call myself a Skynyrd pilot.
Quote from: eyebiter on August 18, 2013, 10:47:43 AM
How about "Watchbird", from the 1953 science fiction story by Robert Sheckley
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579
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Just read the short story.
Great 50's scifi.
Also a great name, but not for the drones. I think that needs to be the name of the project that sifts through all the data gathered by the NSA. It's perfect.
read somewhere that Florida wants a few to spray for mosquitoes
tree hater!
For German operate drones i would like to chose 'Hugin' and 'Munin'
(the mystical ravens of Odin, who do daylie recces for him)
in the Edda is written:
Hugin and Munin fly each day
over the spacious earth.
I fear for Hugin, that he come not back,
yet more anxious am I for Munin
Mike, see reply #9 ;)
ahh i see :) ...that's the translation for the raven names from their old Nordic language into English ;)