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None and in most cases it’s not even clear it’s happening. Due to perspective, a plane far away and a drone up close could look very similar at night when all y
by mattmaroon 2y ago
None and in most cases it’s not even clear it’s happening. Due to perspective, a plane far away and a drone up close could look very similar at night when all you can see are lights in a dark sky.
- llamaimperative 2y agoTotally, it at least seems quite clear it's not happening anywhere near the extent to which it's suspected of happening. Drones fly around. It's legal. It's fun. It's interesting for countless reasons to countless people. Really speaks to the state of our information environment that so many have been thrown into an absolute tizzy.
- mattmaroon 2y agoMost people just don’t know much about drones or planes really. They don’t know how their brain interprets what it sees. Etc It’s obviously just mass hysteria.
- aceazzameen 2y agoThis would make a fascinating case study about how many people have never looked up at their own skies before. I also wouldn't be surprised if the hysteria is being amplified to distract from all the other nonsense in the world right now.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoA star light-years away also looks the same, and it's pretty hilarious when they're mistaken for "drones"
- dredmorbius 2y agoPretty much any object in featureless space: ships on a flat body of water (sea, lake), aircraft in the sky, objects on flat terrain (plains, taiga, desert, sand, snow), objects in space. Even on other solar system bodies (the Moon, Mars, etc.), it's quite difficult to gauge scale and distance without terrestrial references (trees, structures, etc.) to guide the eye.