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Tomorrow Daily - Police drone captures illegal fliers in a literal dragnet, Ep. 286

2015-12-14
greetings citizens at the Internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best geek talk show in the known universe you are watching one of our nano episodes which is about three and a half minutes of two great headlines and a phone tyre for the day so let's not waste any more time let's talk about what's in the news if you've ever wanted to watch a police drone capture another drone with a giant net like a robot butterfly today's your lucky day Japanese officials wanted to figure out a way to disable illegal drone flights especially after a drone carrying radioactive material landed on the prime minister's roof earlier this year it looks like for them more drones is their answer they recently tested a system that involves a large drone equipped with an even bigger net to take off into the sky and capture an illegal aerial vehicle it's starting out with a single drone but they'll expand the program to 10 drones next year with each one guarding its very own specific government building I think I smell an updated TV reboot in other news today is the day everyone NASA officially opened up job applications for astronauts the open call for space explorers starts today and will accept applications until mid February of next year if you are interested you can head over to astronauts nasa.gov and you'll be able to take a look at some of the job requirements you'll need a degree either in math engineering or biological physical or computer science and quite a bit of time flying jet aircraft the manned mission to Mars isn't scheduled until the 2030s at the earliest but there is a planned mission to an asteroid in 2025 you might be able to get in on if you manage to grab a coveted spot on the crew so if you meet all the qualifications and you do decide to apply good luck alright guys let's check out our phone tog referred the day our phone target for the day today is Luke who sent us this amazing perspective picture and wrote to us and said hey CNET I was just walking around in the woods last month and took this picture on my blue pur XL and what a beautiful picture it is Luke like I said I really like sort of the perspective the tree at the bark it's really cool if you want to be featured on the show for phone targer for the day send us your photo to tomorrow at cnn.com and make sure you give us permission to use it on the show and also tell us a little story about it because we like stories that is it for the show guys you want to find us on social media you can do so at any of these places we also accept feedback on any of our stories with the hashtag Haiti D on Twitter and we will be back tomorrow with a brand new docket of weird a wonderful science pack meeting science fiction but until then vegan humans we'll see you guys next time you
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