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Comment Re:You don't know if the new images are from drone (Score 1) 141

Austin has had max zoom for years, and almost certainly from aerial photography. I do see that there is a new 45-degree view, but there is still nothing to indicate that they used an unmanned drone to take the pictures. There's no good reason they can't just tilt the camera on a normal aerial photography plane.

Others have mentioned that licenses for a commercial company to operate unmanned drones over cities are very hard to get. What if the drones are for UN-populated areas? There's been plenty of aerial photography done over highly populated areas, but not over the middle of nowhere. (This is depending on the area; I remember that some states seem to have had total coverage done.)

Comment Re:You have more than one tooth. (Score 1) 82

but it could also be argued that people have died who otherwise would not have needed to, if we had continued research uninterrupted.

Well, all except for that little bothersome detail about no actual therapies being derived yet from embryonic stem cells in the dozens of other countries completely unaffected by the ban. Because there is no other place doing science outside of GOD BLESS MURRICA!

I'll take a therapy that doesn't require immunosuppressants, tyvm.

Comment Re:You need directions? (Score 1) 650

Lived in San Antonio for 21 years, went to the Alamo once. Lived in Austin for 10 more years, went to the Alamo once more when some relatives came from California to visit my mom. The Riverwalk, and the mall two blocks away from the Alamo, are much more visited by the locals. I've even eaten in the restaurant at the top of Hemisfair Tower three times. On the other hand, I've driven past the Alamo plenty of times, since it's along a downtown street that you take to leave the mall, which you can't exactly do with the Statue of Liberty.

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