The One About Amazon’s Floating Warehouses
December 29th, 2016My guess about this one is that it’s a joke—something like Elon Musk’s tunnel boring tweets.
Assuming that it would be physically possible to float hundreds of tons of merchandise over a city (forget about the FAA for a moment), what would the economics of that look like?
In any event, Jeff Bezos will probably be able to launch himself into space long before the floating warehouse plans… take off.
Via: Inverse:
Way back in April, Amazon quietly received a patent for “aerial fulfillment centers” — massive blimp warehouses that would float 45,000 feet in the sky and deliver products with precision-guided UAVs. In other words, in the future, you could order something online and have it literally fall out of the sky minutes later.
U.S. patent 9,305,280 was filed by Amazon Technologies Inc. on behalf of inventors Paul William Berg, Scott Isaacs, and Kelsey Lynn Blodgett all the way back in December of 2014.
LOL this seems straight out of Idiocracy. Too fat and lazy to fit in your self driving car? The Circus of Values comes to you! Don’t go another second without your crucial GMO/poison filled consumables!
What’s next, the water balloon satellite from Invader Zim, where products are shot down your chimney at terminal velocity? I never know how seriously to take Silicon Valley, with things as overvalued as they are/were (looking at you twitter/snapchat/bullshit etc.)