I'm assuming you posted this because of the drone sightings right?
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Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#192This was literally my first thought for the anomalous drones like 2 weeks ago, and it was immediately obvious that the entire NJ police department should not be incompetent enough to fall for something so obvious. The mayors and governor should not be dumb enough to stake their reputations on this when the null hypothesis of "mass hysteria" is easier and safer. Even back then, we knew the sightings do not appear on f…
Governor of Maryland posted a video of Orion's Belt claiming they were drones.
A local news station posted a video of Venus claiming drones.
There's a lot of baloney mixed in to this event.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#193This was literally my first thought for the anomalous drones like 2 weeks ago, and it was immediately obvious that the entire NJ police department should not be incompetent enough to fall for something so obvious. The mayors and governor should not be dumb enough to stake their reputations on this when the null hypothesis of "mass hysteria" is easier and safer. Even back then, we knew the sightings do not appear on f…
You can buy satellite pictures of almost anywhere on earth with pretty good definition and so I deduce that the US government with almost 100 StarShield satellites plus who knows how many ones with huge cameras probably can almost livestream any place on earth GTA top view style. So shouldn't be hard to see what it is and where it came from unless cloud cover is bad.
It'd take a lot more than 100 for that.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#194Are you saying the drones and planes have always been there and we are just noticing it now?
It's probably regular airplanes, stars, and Venus, and now, I assume civilian drones. Once people started claiming drones, other people who never bothered to look in to the sky started seeing lights they didn't understand (planes, stars, planets) because they never bothered to study the night sky in even a basic way, and they are suggestible. Then people probably started flying their own drones to do investigation + prank people.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
What? What great war did we all live through and what's being openly planned? I feel like either you're being dramatic or I'm waaaayyyyy more out of touch than I thought I was. Both are possible, so I need some clarification.
We went through covid, just a couple of years ago. Each of us know how we reacted and how we behaved. The great war between Russia and NATO is being openly planned right now, by both sides. European and Russian media has reached a war frenzy that probably hasn't been seen since WWI.
The great war between Russia and NATO is being openly planned right now, by both sides.
I don't see any basis for this view. There are indications that the two sides may be sleepwalking towards a great conflict. But neither side is specifically intending to start or escalate towards such a conflict.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#196Is this in reference to the drone sightings over New Jersey / elsewhere? UAPs?
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the vast majority of people are just astonishingly suggestible. That combined with a dash of main character syndrome and horrid sleep patterns and you’ve got millions driving home from work in the dark, ready to immediately assume that whatever is out their windshield is what they heard about on the radio that morning.
The majority of people (in the US, at least) spend half a day a week being taught to believe in magic. From birth. Usually on Sunday.
It’s down to 30% in the US; it was over 40% twenty years ago:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642548/church-attendance-declin...
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#198The subreddit /r/njdrones is sooo off the rails right now. It started out as "I think this is a drone, maybe military?" to classifying different drones as energy "orbs" and "mimics" that only look like airplanes when photographed.
Consider that you are uninformed about the UAP phenomenon.
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#199> Some thought that the Navy’s new million-watt radio transmitter at Jim Creek near Arlington was [absurd theory deleted] There actually is a problem some Washington residents occasionally have from powerful navy transmitters. Every so often in Bremerton many garage door opener remotes and car keyless entry systems become very unreliable for a few days to a week or two. This generally corresponds to when aircraft car…
Early car door openers were triggered by normal airplanes, so they’d just randomly open while the homeowners were away.
Lawsuits were filed, and a standard that didn’t have that problem took over.
(Calling the replacement standard “secure” would be overselling it, but I guess it was good enough to make the courts happy.)
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#200Good post. It's important to understand that there's really not that much new under the sun and we've never been that great at understanding large social phenomena.
I don’t think that’s a reasonable summary.
This stuff has been well understood for millennia.