What kind of frequencies do these falcon trackers use? Any datasheets available?
Let us build FalconNogs (like Satnogs) with SDRs!
A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found
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#22Is this what all those Flock cameras are for?
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#24Is this what all those Flock cameras are for?
Flock cameras are for surveilling normal citizen and is used for suppressing freedom, quelling protests and to fulfill capitalist wildest dream to make America like China not for flocks of falcons.
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#25Is this what all those Flock cameras are for?
Flock cameras are for surveilling normal citizen and is used for suppressing freedom, quelling protests and to fulfill capitalist wildest dream to make America like China not for flocks of falcons.
It appeared to be a question about Flock cameras. It really was a double entendre where Flock could be taken to mean a flock of birds. Normally, explaining a joke removes all the humor.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the dictionary definition of "missing", they were not missing. At best, our assumptions about where we expected to find them were wrong.
What dictionary are you using? I just looked it up and MW’s definition of “missing” is “absent” or “lost” or “needed or expected but not included”. Dictionary.com says “absent, not found, or lost” and “lacking”. Wiktionary says “Not able to be located; gone, misplaced”, “Not present when it (they) should be”, and “Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregula…
Why do you think any of those definitions fit the case of the falcons?
I took a look at “MW’s” web definition and it seems singularly lacking. Perhaps you should consider purchasing a real dictionary.
Cambridge is a bit better: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/missi...
A common theme is that for something to be “missing,” it should not be where you expect it to be. But if your expectation is invalid, then it’s not “missing,” you simply have wrong expectations, which is the case with these falcons.
For example, I could say that there are a million falcons missing from my front yard right now. Do you think that’s a valid way to describe it?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to the dictionary definition of "missing", they were not missing. At best, our assumptions about where we expected to find them were wrong.
So my keys have never truly been missing, eh?
You have a valid reason to expect that your keys are in the place you remember leaving them.
That’s not the case with large flocks of living animals. In that case, you’re simply making a category error in imagining that those living animals behave much like your keys.
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#28Reading the article, makes me think that mined areas are good for conservation. When the Angolan area where they congregate is demined their numbers might start declining.
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#29They weren't "missing": GPS-tagged red-footed falcons revealed that they migrate to a tiny communal roost in central Angola (“Falcopolis”) each February–March. There, saved you a click (disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline).
Is this actually clickbait? The title is in the form of many clickbait title, but I'd argue it delivers; the article is more interesting than the title. I suggest readers spend the click and the five minutes.
It's written by Ed Yong, who is a national treasure.
Hell yes, you should read it.
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#30https://archive.is/V29Pq
The article seems to be free for me (with adblock?). Also, the link does not work.
The site has a client-side registration wall loaded by JavaScript to obscure the full text that is already loaded in your browser.
If scripts are turned off in your browser or if you press a reader mode button, those kinds of registration walls won't load.