Message posted by NotTelling (Member since 07/02/2023) on December 20, 2024 at 15:37:35 PST:
[Read this somewhere online.] Okay, we gotta talk about the drones. And the mothership. When I first heard about the mothership, I thought, Cool. Aliens. Because where else do aliens come from but motherships. And then I found out the guy was talking about Iran. And I lost it. But I don’t want to cast aspersions because that’s what everybody else does and I don’t want to be like everybody else. And we also have to quit name calling in this country. It’s just childish. But there are times…..okay, I’ll just say it, you can’t fix stupid. And before we get into this, I want to thank all my teachers, who taught me to think. They also taught me all sorts of other things like history, chemistry, physics, English, etc. You don’t always remember the details as you grow up, but the overriding lesson good teachers impart is how to think. And I’m thinking that a bunch of people, and we’re talking about people who get interviewed on radio and tv talk shows, in other words, mainly politicians, slept through most of their classes. For example, the mothership theory. When I first heard about the mother ship, I figured the politician from New Jersey was talking about an alien mothership orbiting the earth, and I didn’t even blink at that suggestion. It fell into the category of, why not? But then I heard the same interview a second time and realized he was talking about a mother ship from Iran that was sitting off the east coast of America, close enough to launch a fleet of drones but….far enough away to remain undetected? So let’s go down this rabbit hole for a minute. Even top flight drones can only fly about two hours and travel about 11 miles. Maybe the Iranian ones are different, but I doubt it. That means the Iranian mothership would either be parked about a hundred yards off the New Jersey beaches or anchored off a dock somewhere. Invisible to the casual observer. Maybe painted blue to match the ocean. Or brown to match the dock. I’m betting the Iranians don’t have cloaking technology because if they did, they’d have used it on the drones. I’m just saying. That’s why the alien mothership idea is much better, because we all know that those guys have the technology to fly drones that could go considerably farther. I mean they got here from outer space, after all. So unless the mothership came from Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to earth, I think this politician slept through his math classes. So the next politician who slept through classes is a former Maryland governor, who took pictures of the drones and tweeted the video, stating “I personally witnessed (and videoed) what appeared to be dozens of large drones,” and he demanded the federal government do something about it. But someone, who didn’t sleep through his school classes, tweeted back, “The stars at the 39 second mark are recognizable as Orion. From this you can determine that the bright lights behind the trees are the stars Sirius and Procyon.” The former Maryland governor took a picture of Orion’s Belt and thought it was a drone. Like I said earlier, some things you can’t fix. Now, I get it. When you live in big cities, you rarely see the stars. But two of the most recognizable constellations up there are the Big Dipper and Orion’s Belt. So this dude took a picture of the stars in the night sky and thought they were drones. Stationary drones, actually. ‘Cause it takes hours for the stars in the night sky to visibly move into different locations. I’m just thinking here….. But the comments that put me on the floor were from Dr. Will Austin, President of Warren County Community College in New Jersey, who teaches a drone program at the college. The man is an expert in aviation, unmanned aircraft and aviation drones. He runs a state of the art drone program at the college to teach students how to use drones, for things like agricultural spraying, powerline inspections, search and rescue, cell tower inspection, and land surveying, to name just a few commercial uses for drones. When the CNN reporter asked him why there were so many drones being sighted, he simply said that lots of people after Thanksgiving were probably just flying their personal drones. I’m thinking, Black Friday sales after Thanksgiving. All the big box stories sell drones. Now’s the time to try them out. The reporter then asked, “How do you know it’s not China or Iran doing this?” And, without a beat, Dr. Austin said, “Well the reason I know is, that they would turn the lights off.” On the drones. And I fell off the couch from laughing so hard. Dr. Austin also addressed the issue of how to get rid of all these drones, like whether we should just shoot them out of the sky. He said, “Yeah, you wouldn’t want to shoot this [indicating a drone] down because if you hit the lipo [lithium polymer] battery you might set the whole forest on fire, or your house, or hurt someone.” And then he added, “And it’s illegal.” And again, I had to pick myself up off the floor. Dr. Austin would make a great straight man in a comedy routine. But above all, he’s a teacher. An expert. Someone to listen to. And there's more. While we don’t really need to talk about another politician, she’s too good to pass up. This one is from South Carolina, who said on a radio talk show that if, and I’ll reemphasize, IF it’s not from outer space, then it has to be from Russia or China. That’s a giant leap in thinking. And then she linked the drones to the arms race, radiation and a lost nuclear warhead. Like anyone would lose a nuclear warhead in New Jersey and then go looking for it with a drone. With its lights turned on. Even Neil deGrasse Tyson got interviewed about alien drones. If you’re not familiar with him, Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He is an astrophysicist, who writes, talks and explains about astrophysics and the stars to anyone who will listen. When asked whether the drones could be aliens, he prefaced his comments by saying he doesn’t know the motives of aliens, but he thought it was odd that “of the whole earth they could have visited,” they’d pick New Jersey. Nothing against New Jersey, of course. In the end, I’d like to thank all of these people who have contributed their ideas about the mysterious drones in New Jersey. And to the media and talk show hosts who have featured on their shows these politicians, and many others, who have contributed to the nonsense. I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. And we're seriously considering dismantling the Department of Education. I realize there is a serious side to these drones. And it has nothing to do with aliens, adversaries or other nefarious actors. No, the serious side are the idiots who get stirred up about all of this, see conspiracies around every corner and decide to shoot down the drones. It’s already started. Pilots have also reported a big increase in laser targeting of planes, mistaken for drones. That’s dangerous to the pilots and everyone on board. But above all, I think we need to remember that it’s not the drones that we see that we should be worried about. It’s the ones we can’t see. Cue the X-Files theme music. And thank a teacher the next time you see one. Encourage them to keep trying.
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In Reply to: New Jersey Drones, what are they? posted by Nick on December 20, 2024 at 3:02:47 PST:
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