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The idea that mystery nefarious drone operators would be sending up things with blinking red and green navigation lights on them is patently absurd. As others h
by walrus01 2y ago
The idea that mystery nefarious drone operators would be sending up things with blinking red and green navigation lights on them is patently absurd. As others have pointed out in this thread, there's a lot of more mundane explanations.
- ungreased0675 2y agoWhat if the lights are how they are controlled and pass data, rather than an RF link?
- pavel_lishin 2y agoThat's as plausible as them beaming spy data directly into the operator's brains via midichlorians.
- walrus01 2y agoExceedingly unlikely in my opinion, I've seen pictures/videos of these mystery drones and they look exactly like commercial aircraft white, red and green navigation lights. Or the red and green lights you would see on the end of the arms on a COTS DJI/Autel/competitor type UAV.
- pyth0 2y agoWhat if the moon were made of cheese?
- ungreased0675 2y agohttps://lifi.co/lifi-applications/aerospace/ https://lifi.co/lifi-applications/aerospace/ The technology is real, and the application is plausible, why the down votes?
- alchemist1e9 2y agoit seems the videos posted with blinking red and green navigation lights are actually not representative of the drone sightings authorities are investigating but instead represent a side effect of the mania with people posting videos of private aircrafts as everyone is looking up and trying to record the “drones” but doesn’t realize the aircraft have been there all along and first they are paying attention. The real drones go dark and evade helicopters.
- PepperdineG 2y agoAlso it can depend on what people consider nefarious. For a long time I noticed drone coverage over my area regularly at night, which how they were operating over a populated area would be illegal for a civilian. Eventually I figured it out to be law enforcement drones. It's perfectly legal for there to be cop drones but people might consider them nefarious and law enforcement has been taking a boiled frog approach to drone acceptance.
- standardUser 2y agoIt could be some politicians are leveraging the situation to get stricter drone laws passed. It should be unnerving to all of us that any semi-intelligent person with a few thousand bucks could weaponize a drone and send it off to wreak havoc. I'm not a drone enthusiast, but it seems like the level of regulation and enforcement has fallen way behind the access to the technology.