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Every nuclear power plant has airspace restrictions, so I don't even know what you're talking about. https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/where_can_i_fly/ai

Every nuclear power plant has airspace restrictions, so I don't even know what you're talking about. https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/where_can_i_fly/airspace_restrictions/security_sensitive https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/where_can_i_fly/airs... Spy balloons (and drones) are 100000% a thing. I think it's laughable that you can even try to argue otherwise. As to why the US suddenly cares publicly, probably mostly political because the Chinese balloon was spotted by a civilian and there was a public outcry. That doesn't mean they aren't happening, nor that the governments across the world aren't aware of them. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...

hindsightbias 4y ago
> power plant you're own link: "Drones are prohibited.. from the ground up to 400 feet above ground level" This, charitably, is called moving the goal posts. I fly over/near a nuclear plant every couple of months on my way somewhere. I am not a drone. Pilots fly over silo fields and nuclear plants all day, every day.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  Your quote from their link is a boilerplate minimum restriction that applies when no further restriction is provided. Most places, especially "sensitive" ones have even stricter limitations. Go ahead and try and fly a drone 500 ft above a military airbase, you'll meet some fun people and have plenty of free time to pick up a new hobby. Nuclear silos are generally not that sensitive, because they are all 60 years old and everyone can identify them on satellite imaging, but if you fly a drone near one, you will definitely be surveilled by some security, whether you know it or not.
- partiallypro 4y ago
  If you bothered to read it's a ~3-mile radius from the plant, but sure. If you want to test your theory, go ahead and buy a drone and try flying it only 300ft above a nuclear power plant. As soon as you're found out, you'll promptly be arrested (if your drone doesn't already automatically shut off due to GPS geofencing).
- dang 4y ago
  Can you please make your substantive points without snark and swipes, and please not post in the flamewar style? The HN guidelines ask you not to do those things, because they degrade discussion and we're trying for something else here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
dang 4y ago
Can you please make your substantive points without snark and swipes? The HN guidelines ask you not to do those things, because they degrade discussion and we're trying for something else here. You did it repeatedly in this thread, and unfortunately have been doing it elsewhere too—and we've had to warn you about this kind of thing more than once before. When accounts behave this way, we end up having to ban them. I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

hindsightbias 4y ago

> power plant you're own link: "Drones are prohibited.. from the ground up to 400 feet above ground level" This, charitably, is called moving the goal posts. I fly over/near a nuclear plant every couple of months on my way somewhere. I am not a drone. Pilots fly over silo fields and nuclear plants all day, every day.

mrguyorama 4y ago
Your quote from their link is a boilerplate minimum restriction that applies when no further restriction is provided. Most places, especially "sensitive" ones have even stricter limitations. Go ahead and try and fly a drone 500 ft above a military airbase, you'll meet some fun people and have plenty of free time to pick up a new hobby. Nuclear silos are generally not that sensitive, because they are all 60 years old and everyone can identify them on satellite imaging, but if you fly a drone near one, you will definitely be surveilled by some security, whether you know it or not.
partiallypro 4y ago
If you bothered to read it's a ~3-mile radius from the plant, but sure. If you want to test your theory, go ahead and buy a drone and try flying it only 300ft above a nuclear power plant. As soon as you're found out, you'll promptly be arrested (if your drone doesn't already automatically shut off due to GPS geofencing).
dang 4y ago
Can you please make your substantive points without snark and swipes, and please not post in the flamewar style? The HN guidelines ask you not to do those things, because they degrade discussion and we're trying for something else here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

dang 4y ago

Can you please make your substantive points without snark and swipes? The HN guidelines ask you not to do those things, because they degrade discussion and we're trying for something else here. You did it repeatedly in this thread, and unfortunately have been doing it elsewhere too—and we've had to warn you about this kind of thing more than once before. When accounts behave this way, we end up having to ban them. I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.