c/interestingasfuck · by stumu415@lemmy.zip · 46dRescue pontoon in China https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/5d304141-b87f-4dc7-91c9-4618fbc3e053.webm65 points · 9 comments · view on lemmy.world
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Weslee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 46d
Why is there flags all over? Is this a demo?
Just imagining a real life scenario where they can't rescue anyone until there's 50 Chinese flags planted on board and at the rescue zone...
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 46d
No this was very real. Due to the typhoon this part of China was flooded.
https://m.economictimes.com/us/news/chinese-rescuers-deploy-pontoon-bridges-drones-to-evacuate-thousands-of-stranded-students-in-flood-hit-guangxi-watch-viral-video/articleshow/132308123.cms
mumblerfish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 46d
It's also no flags on the drone shot and then a flag -- a soviet flag -- on the pontoon shot. Something is fishy.
glimse@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 46d
What a bizarre nitpick. Do you mean the one flag on board at launch?
Or the safety flags used during launch?
Or the flags at the drop-off point that would in no way slow down the rescue?
Weslee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 46d
Not really a nitpick... Just a question on whether it was a genuine video or if they were showing off the tech.
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 46d
otter@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 46d
Do you have the video for this?
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 46d
https://streamable.com/l9c9ip.
It shows more about the deployment.
PagPag@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 46d
Typhoon Maysak.