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Tacocopter

Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!

It's an unmanned drone helicopter shooting a taco from space down at you and your colleagues during lunchtime!

The Internet is going wild for Tacocopter, perhaps the next great startup out of Silicon Valley, which boasts a business plan that combines four of the most prominent touchstones of modern America: tacos, helicopters, robots and laziness.

Indeed, the concept behind Tacocopter is very simple, and very American: You order tacos on your smartphone and also beam in your GPS location information. Your order -- and your location -- are transmitted to an unmanned drone helicopter (grounded, near the kitchen where the tacos are made), and the tacocopter is then sent out with your food to find you and deliver your tacos to wherever you're standing.

You pay online, so the tacos are simply dropped off at your feet by the drone helicopter, which then flies back to the restaurant to pick up its next order.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Not a good plan. Too much chance of competing companies intercepting the copters. Need something faster.

Consider Taco Shell.

Your order is placed in a specially designed steerable artillery shell (existing technology. shouldn't be hard to plowshare), your GPS coordinates are fed into the fire-control system, and your meal is on the way at Mach 3. Could even make multiple deliveries in the same area with parachute-retarded sub-munitions.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Not a good plan. Too much chance of competing companies intercepting the copters. Need something faster.

Consider Taco Shell.

Your order is placed in a specially designed steerable artillery shell (existing technology. shouldn't be hard to plowshare), your GPS coordinates are fed into the fire-control system, and your meal is on the way at Mach 3. Could even make multiple deliveries in the same area with parachute-retarded sub-munitions.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Oh, you're being paranoid and all, but are you paranoid enuf???.

Say, you don't own a smart phone, do ya?

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