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Originally, yes, absolutely correct. But hobbyists who make historic replicas generally omit that bit! :D And the general design is sometimes used for a not-historically-accurate hobbyist kite... this one is a Hargrave box kite, visually similar...

It's lacking the "syn" in its "chron" aspects.

If nothing else, this shows that the UFO could have been any number of shapes or objects captured at a particular angle. The Christmas ornament can clearly create something very similar when photographed at an unconventional angle, but that would...

Chereze was a "P2" with the soldier rank in the Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais. As John J. explained above, the Policia Militar is basically a "gendarmaerie" Eric Lopes was his direct superior, a "P2" Corporal. Their role as members of the P2...

Chereze was a "P2" with the soldier rank in the Polícia Militar de Minas Gerais. As John J. explained above, the Policia Militar is basically a "gendarmaerie" Eric Lopes was his direct superior, a "P2" Corporal. Their role as members of the P2...

The entire video has likely been through several stages of re-recording, maybe on different systems. But the timecode does seem particularly bad. It goes from 18:21:06 to 18:22:21 (1m 15 sec) over the course of the video, about the right...

While I agree with your general point, and it is true that the PF misidentified Venus, the evasive action mistake happened as a reaction to seeing the actual aircraft. See...

It's not a sign of stupidity or intelligence to be mistaken. Anyone and everyone is at some point. It's simply part of being human. I've been mistaken before thinking Venus was another plane and I have an IQ of 140 and held a CPL(A) at the time...

the purpose of a barrage kite is to make the airspace unsafe the wire that anchors it is the danger

I'd like to see the pan continue to show the bottom view, if/when you do this again.

@Andreas, sorry for the delay, weather has not been cooperative! I finally just decided to mess with it indoors.This limits how far away from the kite I can get, but maybe it is still useful. If weather ever is nice, I'll try it outdoors, I am...

I spend all day writing (usually fiction) or editing and reading while listening to podcasts (often book reviews, although not in my genre, or philosophy-type channels). It seems like at least once a day, sometimes multiple times in one hour, I...

And the last time I saw it used, it was used as a gramatical plural, but rendered in its singular - so it might just be a word perceived to be scholarly that people who don't have the linguistic capabilities they would like to pretend they have...

A very real interstellar probe project called Breakthrough Starshot plans to send gram scale probes called Starchips to other stars. https://www.planetary.org/space-images/starchip If we end up seeing an alien spacecraft (active or inactive...

Not sure it's making the aerospace unsafe.