I don't know why I liked this story so much, but if you'd like to look at it from a Part 15 broadcasting perspective (though it's not focused on in the article) these guys have broadcasting AC/DC and Five Finger Death Punch songs, movie clips, etc, or just yelling into their microphones at their listening audience.
I bet they haven't paid BMI, ASCAP, or the other one a single dime in royalties.
🙂
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/drones-blasting-ac-dc-scarlett-040609915.html
Heavily truncated:
"For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones.
But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they're using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and live human voices at the apex predators to shoo them away from cattle in an ongoing experiment.
“I am not putting up with this anymore!” actor Scarlett Johansson yells in one clip, ... ... ...
.. .. They've turned to electrified fencing, wolf alarms, guard dogs, horseback patrols, trapping and relocating, and now drones. In some areas where nonlethal efforts have failed, .. ...
... .. study released in 2022 demonstrated that adding human voices through a loudspeaker rigged onto a drone can freak them out. The team documented successful interruptions of wolf hunts. ..
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The preloaded clips include recordings of music, gunshots, fireworks and voices. A drone pilot starts by playing three clips chosen at random, such as the “Marriage Story” scene or “Thunderstruck,” with its screams and hair-raising electric guitar licks. If those don't work, the operator can improvise by yelling through a microphone or playing a different clip that's not among the randomized presets. One favorite is the heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch 's cover of “Blue on Black,” which might blast the lyric “You turned and you ran” as the wolves flee "
... .. It’s unclear whether the wolves might become accustomed to the drones. .. ..Environmental advocates are optimistic about drones, though, because they allow for scaring wolves in different ways, in different places.
“Wolves are frightened of novel things,” said Amaroq Weiss, a wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. ... He recalled an early encounter during which a wolf at first merely seemed curious at the sight of a drone, until the pilot talked to it through the speaker.
“He said, ‘Hey wolf — get out of here,’” [and] “The wolf immediately lets go of the cattle and runs away.”
This topic was modified 11 months ago by RichPowers
Reminds me a wee bit about the alleged experiment where the high school kid subjected plants to classical music and heavy metal music in a closet, or something along those lines. For the uninitiated, the plants suffered under the metal music.
Yeah, it's the kind of work done on a grant. Stuff that psycho babblers in white jackets do in clandestine labs who work for the "intelligence community". Intelligence community makes it sound so pleasant.
Reminds me a wee bit about the alleged experiment where the high school kid subjected plants to classical music and heavy metal music in a closet, or something along those lines. For the uninitiated, the plants suffered under the metal music.....
Those experiments with plants was back in the 1970s, big deal at the time as there was ample media coverage about it, but it wasn't high school kids doing the experiments, it was reputable scientist, although there were just as many that disputed the results with there own experiments.
I would suppose plants are like people in that some like heavy metal, other hate it!