Re:The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
by SketchySeaBeast on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:13AM
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I'm sure UAV's, especially at night, would very much look like a UFO - you can't discern scale, and they'll move in all sorts of ways you wouldn't expect. If they are far enough away to mask the noise you'd just see a light doing extraordinary things, and without scale the speed and distances could potentially look vast.
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Re:The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
by JulianMorrison on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:11AM
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Things drones can do that seem UFO like: turn sharp corners suddenly and stop on a dime, move in concert as if they were points of light attached to a solid object, disappear or hide by turning their LEDs off, appear by turning them on.
Things drones can't do: go fast enough to cross the sky in a blink, stop on a dime or turn sharp corners at jet speeds, travel at jet speeds at all - without an obvious and loud model jet engine, create slabs of light or opaque surfaces, block the stars behind them like a solid object, be eerily silent.
Re:The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
by trevyn on Friday October 11, 2019 @01:45PM
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>Things drones can't do: go fast enough to cross the sky in a blink, stop on a dime or turn sharp corners at jet speeds, travel at jet speeds at all - without an obvious and loud model jet engine, create slabs of light or opaque surfaces, block the stars behind them like a solid object
Eh, if you have an LED screen in the sky, you can create the appearance of a lot of things.
Re:The Navy's Patent for a Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor
by SketchySeaBeast on Friday October 11, 2019 @11:18AM
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True to some of those (I think that some of the aerodynamic feats can be perspective and size) but I'm not saying "all UFO's are drones" - that'd be ridiculous, just as I'm sure you're not saying that all the claims are real, and the more extraordinary, the more reason to doubt the claim.