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Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'

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A decent percentage of the population thinks that the president of the US can control the weather. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-not-controlling-the-... The fact of the matter is that a lot of people have rotten, worm-riddled cabbage for brains.

Of course the government can control the weather, what are you on about: > In the United States, cloud seeding is used to increase precipitation in areas experiencing drought, to reduce the size of hailstones that form in thunderstorms, and to reduce the amount of fog in and around airports. In the summer of 1948, the usually humid city of Alexandria, Louisiana, under Mayor Carl B. Close, seeded a cloud with dry ice…

That's not "controlling the weather" anymore than a person with a box of matches can control fire.

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From what little I've seen on this, it kind of feels like the issue with Priuses acceleration out of control like 15 years ago. It was a huge scandal that lead to multiple Toyota recalls and even a lawsuit settlement and in the end, it seems like it was basically human error. One person messed up and crashed their Prius claiming the accelerator got stuck and it got picked up by the news. That story then primed other…

Most of the Toyota acceleration accidents were almost certainly the result of operator error. The fact that the staistical probablity increased with age gives that away. However, Toyota got convicted because their software development process was so terrible that they were effectively criminally negligent and deserved to get absolutely roasted for it.

> criminally negligent

Well, civil reckless disregard, as it wasn’t a criminal case.

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The photos I've seen posted look very obviously like commercial airliners and helicopters with their navigation lights on. You can even make out the American Airlines livery on the tail! https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2024/12/11/d...

Yeap. The media people parroting this are morons.

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A practical question, beyond the questions of whose drones these are: what are they looking for?

The most plausible explanation is that people who know nothing are in hysterics over legally operated and licensed aircraft. ATC has radar, military bases have radar. If there were threats, they would see them and do something about them. Folks are reporting to their state senators? and some whacky congressmen have said some absurd things, but no one who is actually responsible cares and folks are trying to spin it l…

ATC and military bases only have primary radar covering a tiny fraction of US territory. Most of what people think of as radar relies on active transponders to work. Or it's ADS-B output and not radar at all.

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Oh, here, I'll make you feel better. Go check sub of the alien/ufo subreddits. Literally you'll see comments that amount to "my life sucks and is boring, this would be exciting even if bad". It's uh, a bit maddening and a bit sad.

Lol.

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> "are assessed by the Pentagon yesterday to not originate in the US or any other nation" This statement logically means that: * The Pentagon assessed (determined) that X is true * Where X is defined as "The drones do not originate in the US or any other nation" That is different than the statement: * The Pentagon has stated that (a) X is false, and (b) they have no evidence that Y is true. * Where X is defined as "T…

For clarity the exact words the Pentagon staff in the video used are: "at this time we have no evidence that these activities are coming from a foreign entity or the work of an adversary...these are not US military drones" What's your thoughts?

If anduril, for instance, sends the US military some new drones to try out, it is not technically a false statement for the military to say they aren’t military drones.

The wording, imo, is intentionally very vague.

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> "are assessed by the Pentagon yesterday to not originate in the US or any other nation" This statement logically means that: * The Pentagon assessed (determined) that X is true * Where X is defined as "The drones do not originate in the US or any other nation" That is different than the statement: * The Pentagon has stated that (a) X is false, and (b) they have no evidence that Y is true. * Where X is defined as "T…

For clarity the exact words the Pentagon staff in the video used are: "at this time we have no evidence that these activities are coming from a foreign entity or the work of an adversary...these are not US military drones" What's your thoughts?

confirmed that jesus has returned as an alien to bring about the apocalypse.

but uhh, the most standard thing is that its some weather balloon put up by an undergrad student who isnt aware of the relevant regulations theyre supposed to be following and whod really prefer to ask forgiveness than permission

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