In order to keep innovating new and exciting ideas that make our world so much better.

Good thing this idea was canceled. It was clearly poorly thought out. Monitoring campers with small drones is stupid. You need to use large drones that can fire missiles at people who violate leave no trace principles.

Ugh! I thought maybe the super weird attitudes toward camping was isolated to Ontario, but it would seem that Alberta has been infected as well. I'm worried about Canada.

Admittedly, I hear more and more stories of people noticing the USFS buzzing above them more and more frequently in their de Havilland Beavers, so I guess the difference wouldn't actually be that big.

Talk about Big Brother!
No more skinny dipping.

Interesting...I wonder if the USFS would consider doing this if the silliness, irresponsibility, or complaints of 2020 continued into 2022 and beyond. I am not suggesting they do.

Mike

tumblehome: "Talk about Big Brother!
No more skinny dipping. "

And you can be on You Tube or Instagram as you do your bizness on the thunderbox with a view.. both ways.

tumblehome: "Talk about Big Brother!
No more skinny dipping. "

People can watch me skinny dip if they choose. Don't matter to me.

x2jmorris: "

tumblehome: "Talk about Big Brother!
No more skinny dipping. "

People can watch me skinny dip if they choose. Don't matter to me. "

I agree, that and I'd happily moon a drone if given the chance

Way long time ago we might have smoked some pot during our canoe trips in Canada. Pot made us paranoid and we always worried about this guy







Showing up, unannounced, in our campsite. Not sure the drone would be any better.

I wonder if a wrist rocket would take one of these out?

Ford is once again taking credit for the declining numbers with his lockdown. But you tell me how it is that the state of Michigan, with the same climate, same population density and the same surge in April but with even more dire infections and death tallies than Ontario was able to reverse the trend without locking down. Whitmer was expressly told by the experts that the vaccine would not help her turn it around...that she needed another lockdown. Well, like so many states before hers, she chose to ignore the alarmism. For what reason? I don't know. The fact is that these two jurisdictions were in he same place a month ago - no, that's wrong...Michigan was in a worse place. Each achieved the same result. Michigan remains relatively free while Ontario is locked down.

Yet the government bureaucrats continue to be employed in an uninterrupted fashion, remuneration and pensions guaranteed and dreaming up whacked out methods to eavesdrop on their fellow citizens.

Total BS.

Michigan vs. Ontario...currently Michigan is doing well due to vaccinations. Sorry your country's performance in this category has been pathetic for an industrialized modern nation. If you look at performance for the entire year, Ontario did a better job than Michigan. Fewer cases, fewer deaths.

Do I agree with how Ontario did all their shutdowns? No way. I agree with you, but you also have to admit Ontario did better early on.

Not trying to start a fight over who's better... both countries made errors... some we won’t know for years... probably some things they both did well we won’t know for years as well.

T

I am one of millions of Americans who love Canada and Canadians. I still consider Canadians to be a brave, strong people.

Like T, I've witnessed suffering. I've seen someone struggle to breathe despite the array of lines perforating their bodies. It's not like dying of a heart attack, which means having to endure the feeling of a rhino on your chest for a few minutes before you're gone. Dying through your failing lungs is the slowest of deaths, half breath by half breath.

tumblehome: "Talk about Big Brother!
No more skinny dipping. "

My thought was - More skinny dipping!

I thought the thread was actually gonna be about drones!

Mike

MikeinMpls: "I thought the thread was actually gonna be about drones!

Mike"

Like most BWCA threads, we take a hard right turn soon after the first few posts. Sort of fun I guess. :)
Tom

missmolly: "I am one of millions of Americans who love Canada and Canadians. I still consider Canadians to be a brave, strong people. "

I will second this!

deerfoot: "

missmolly: "I am one of millions of Americans who love Canada and Canadians. I still consider Canadians to be a brave, strong people. "

I will second this!"

Same

Bringing shotgun from now on

tumblehome: "

MikeinMpls: "I thought the thread was actually gonna be about drones!


Mike"

Like most BWCA threads, we take a hard right turn soon after the first few posts. Sort of fun I guess. :)
Tom"

I had been hoping to just make it a thread about whether firing missiles at misbehaving campers was a LNT problem because of the craters they would leave. Oh well.

andym: "

tumblehome: "

MikeinMpls: "I thought the thread was actually gonna be about drones!



Mike"

Like most BWCA threads, we take a hard right turn soon after the first few posts. Sort of fun I guess. :)
Tom"

I had been hoping to just make it a thread about whether firing missiles at misbehaving campers was a LNT problem because of the craters they would leave. Oh well."

Even if this this thing was implemented I can imagine a scenario where some department head cancels the program because it mostly yielded shots of campers mooning the drones.

andym: "

tumblehome: "

MikeinMpls: "I thought the thread was actually gonna be about drones!



Mike"

Like most BWCA threads, we take a hard right turn soon after the first few posts. Sort of fun I guess. :)
Tom"

I had been hoping to just make it a thread about whether firing missiles at misbehaving campers was a LNT problem because of the craters they would leave. Oh well."

The craters will fill with water and the water will fill with fish, so no worry.

Stumpy: "Bringing shotgun from now on"

I had a neighbour with a drone and I considered shooting it down if it flew over my house...but I checked into it first a found out in Canada you cannot arbitrarily shoot down a drone even if it flies over your property without your permission.

It is however illegal to fly drones in Ontario Provincial Parks without written consent.

Thank you Argo and MissMolly. I feel fulfilled now.

1) Did you means "shots of" or "shots at" campers who are mooning the drones. It could be both.

2) so does creating new fishing lakes count as upgrading the wilderness?

andym: "Good thing this idea was canceled. It was clearly poorly thought out. Monitoring campers with small drones is stupid. You need to use large drones that can fire missiles at people who violate leave no trace principles."

Lmao

andym: "Thank you Argo and MissMolly. I feel fulfilled now.


1) Did you means "shots of" or "shots at" campers who are mooning the drones. It could be both.


2) so does creating new fishing lakes count as upgrading the wilderness?"

It not only upgrades the wilderness, but if a crater becomes a pond on an island, then a lake will have its own pond, which is sort of like a human mammal having a canine mammal and we all know how wonderful that is.

missmolly: "Like T, I've witnessed suffering. I've seen someone struggle to breathe despite the array of lines perforating their bodies. It's not like dying of a heart attack, which means having to endure the feeling of a rhino on your chest for a few minutes before you're gone. Dying through your failing lungs is the slowest of deaths, half breath by half breath. "

I too have witnessed Covid Patients desperately trying to breathe. No doubt in my mind that the vast majority of people unvaccinated would roll up their sleeves if they observed what I have.

missmolly: "It not only upgrades the wilderness, but if a crater becomes a pond on an island, then a lake will have its own pond, which is sort of like a human mammal having a canine mammal and we all know how wonderful that is. "

You are thinking on an even grander scale than I am. I was thinking that small craters might form lovely hot tubs. Either way, these are going to be really popular camp sites.

andym: "

missmolly: "It not only upgrades the wilderness, but if a crater becomes a pond on an island, then a lake will have its own pond, which is sort of like a human mammal having a canine mammal and we all know how wonderful that is. "

You are thinking on an even grander scale than I am. I was thinking that small craters might form lovely hot tubs. Either way, these are going to be really popular camp sites."

Hot tubs? Yikes, for that loops us back to nekkid folks being filmed by drones!

Freddy: "

missmolly: "Like T, I've witnessed suffering. I've seen someone struggle to breathe despite the array of lines perforating their bodies. It's not like dying of a heart attack, which means having to endure the feeling of a rhino on your chest for a few minutes before you're gone. Dying through your failing lungs is the slowest of deaths, half breath by half breath. "

I too have witnessed Covid Patients desperately trying to breathe. No doubt in my mind that the vast majority of people unvaccinated would roll up their sleeves if they observed what I have."

You're right, Freddy.