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Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Re: Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Post by mikhailfranco »

First drone footage of x is becoming a little rarefied, not to say boring and predictable for some values of x.

So I expect this to be the peak of consumers buying little mavics to film their trips to Mont Blanc or the Amalfi Coast. Honestly, their friends are not interested. It was sad and ridiculous while it lasted, and now I hope it's over.

Re: Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Post by mannykannot »

These juveniles are lucky to not be in a place where the ice melts before they have their water-resistant feathers. This possibility is becoming an existential threat to some penguin colonies.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-24/record-...

Re: Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Post by jncfhnb »

mikhailfranco wrote: post #21

First drone footage of x is becoming a little rarefied, not to say boring and predictable for some values of x. So I expect this to be the peak of consumers buying little mavics to film their trips to Mont Blanc or the Amalfi Coast. Honestly, their friends are not interested. It was sad and ridiculous while it lasted, and now I hope it's over.

Seems like a stupid take to me. The fact that it is drone footage is not why it’s interesting. It’s merely indicating that it’s drone footage because that implies a novel ability to film something interesting from a good angle.

Re: Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Post by ryukoposting »

mikhailfranco wrote: post #21

First drone footage of x is becoming a little rarefied, not to say boring and predictable for some values of x. So I expect this to be the peak of consumers buying little mavics to film their trips to Mont Blanc or the Amalfi Coast. Honestly, their friends are not interested. It was sad and ridiculous while it lasted, and now I hope it's over.

Why should they care what their friends think? Can we not take pictures and videos of things for our own enjoyment of that act?

FWIW I don't own a drone nor have I ever considered buying one. I do have a horde of 35mm film cameras though.

Re: Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Post by yosito »

jajko wrote: post #5

Its interesting how unskilled nature can be and still get away with it (here I guess to the thick fur/skin/fat below). If humans would jump from such height so badly, many injuries and possibly few deaths would be happening. I've done my fair of jumps in Swiss swimming pools / beaches where 10m jumping board is standard equipment, and even slightly incorrect landing can be quite brutal on the body. Falling ie on the…

I'd imagine that jumping so far into such cold water, even if your form is perfect, would also be quite shocking to your system and probably dangerous in and of itself. I say this as someone who went swimming with penguins in Antarctica this January. No way I would enter that cold water so deeply and quickly.

Re: Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff

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Post by jncfhnb »

Very odd footage imo.

* most of the birds are falling in because they’re pushed, not because they’re jumping

* most of the birds are belly flopping hard rather than diving in with any sort of graceful entry

* most birds don’t appear to ever jump. I refuse to believe the camera wouldn’t have shown the whole population in the water if they had

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