Tourist crashes drone into Yellowstone hot spring

[Monello]

Damn Euro-trash

A tourist accidentally crashed a camera drone into the huge Grand Prismatic Hot Springs pool. Days later, park staff are still trying to figure out how to retrieve it and are wondering if it will damage the pool. The plastic body and the lead from the battery could alter the chemistry of the pool which could change its brilliant color.

http://www.yellowstonepark.com/2014/08/drone-crashes-grand-prismatic-pool

 

[Gilligan]

The whole thing is gonna blow soon....the drone will probably end up in Minnesota...


And their never was a drone flying with lead batteries in the last couple of decades; lithium-ion would be typical now, Ni-Cad some while back. Good grief..people just make stuff up.

 

[GWguy]

I thought drones were banned from those parks.

 

[dan0623_2000]

I thought drones were banned from those parks.

Yea and the speed limit is 55, but do all people do it?. Putting some words on a piece of paper does not stop something from happening

 

[Larry Gude]

Yea and the speed limit is 55, but do all people do it?. Putting some words on a piece of paper does not stop something from happening

The drone thing is going to become public issue #1 before much longer.

 

[jazz lady]

I thought drones were banned from those parks.

Yes, they're banned from all national parks.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/travel/national-park-service-drone-ban/

Attention, campers. National parks are becoming "no drone" zones.

The National Park Service announced Friday it is prohibiting drones -- properly called unmanned aircraft -- from all NPS-controlled lands and waters. That includes 84 million acres in every state and territory, including monuments, battlefields, historic sites, seashores, rivers and trails.

 

[blacklabman]

The whole thing is gonna blow soon....the drone will probably end up in Minnesota...


And their never was a drone flying with lead batteries in the last couple of decades; lithium-ion would be typical now, Ni-Cad some while back. Good grief..people just make stuff up.

Actually the batteries are lithium-polymer (lipo).

 

[Larry Gude]

We need more gun laws to keep this sort of thing from happening again...

 

[Gilligan]

Actually the batteries are lithium-polymer (lipo).

Could be. Cheaper but also less power-dense than Li-Ion... Either way, sure weren't lead-acid batteries that were powering it.

 

[blacklabman]

Could be. Cheaper but also less power-dense than Li-Ion... Either way, sure weren't lead-acid batteries that were powering it.

Perhaps, but the critical factor is weight for electric powered model aircraft.

 

[Gilligan]

Perhaps, but the critical factor is weight for electric powered model aircraft.

that explains why so many Li-Ion batteries are for sale for RC planes and helos.

Oh..wait...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/111003638067?lpid=82

Both types are used, of course. Routinely. Best I know...neither contain much lead...that issue being in the subject of the thread.

 

[desertrat]

Yes, they're banned from all national parks.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/travel/national-park-service-drone-ban/

For civilians yeah, just like here they banned them at the Co Nat Monument, because they might scare some animals, but it's ok if they take a head count of a herd. Or nerd.