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Drones my be the next sort of thing to ruin astronomy
Most don't care much about light-pollutionng and because of that, "Drone shows" like the one they had at the SuperBowl might become another annoyance or even drones flying at night with little lights on them. Recently, the Chinese put 10,000 drones into the night sky with blazing LEDs to create some kind of show. We can only hope this is a short-term thing, an hour long show and we don't have lit drones flying all of the place at night.
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Drones my be the next sort of thing to ruin astronomy
On Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 9:09:39 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote:
Most don't care much about light-pollutionng and because of that, "Drone shows" like the one they had at the SuperBowl might become another annoyance or even drones flying at night with little lights on them. Recently, the Chinese put 10,000 drones into the night sky with blazing LEDs to create some kind of show. We can only hope this is a short-term thing, an hour long show and we don't have lit drones flying all of the place at night. Drones are getting quite restriction lately, like max flying height, 5 miles from nearest airports, snooping on people, distance from crowds and events, restriction flying in parks, near residential areas etc... I'm sure the drone light restriction will be an issue also, like can't fly after dusk without permit or proper lights, color etc... Now days certain drones/operator has to be licensed and serial numbered, other wise can be $10K fine! Other serious offense is flying near airport without permit. Big fine! If Amazon crash it's drone in my backyard, I'll keep it! (o: |
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On Sunday, 26 February 2017 05:12:41 UTC-5, StarDust wrote:
On Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 9:09:39 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote: Most don't care much about light-pollutionng and because of that, "Drone shows" like the one they had at the SuperBowl might become another annoyance or even drones flying at night with little lights on them. Recently, the Chinese put 10,000 drones into the night sky with blazing LEDs to create some kind of show. We can only hope this is a short-term thing, an hour long show and we don't have lit drones flying all of the place at night. Drones are getting quite restriction lately, like max flying height, 5 miles from nearest airports, snooping on people, distance from crowds and events, restriction flying in parks, near residential areas etc... I'm sure the drone light restriction will be an issue also, like can't fly after dusk without permit or proper lights, color etc... Now days certain drones/operator has to be licensed and serial numbered, other wise can be $10K fine! Other serious offense is flying near airport without permit. Big fine! If Amazon crash it's drone in my backyard, I'll keep it! (o: Yes, "fly at night with the proper lights." Imagine hundreds of delivery drones zipping around at night delivering things. |
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:09:37 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote: Most don't care much about light-pollutionng and because of that, "Drone shows" like the one they had at the SuperBowl might become another annoyance or even drones flying at night with little lights on them. Recently, the Chinese put 10,000 drones into the night sky with blazing LEDs to create some kind of show. We can only hope this is a short-term thing, an hour long show and we don't have lit drones flying all of the place at night. It's not going to be an issue anyplace where dark skies exist. And it isn't going to make any significant difference in places where they don't. |
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Drones my be the next sort of thing to ruin astronomy
Pretty soon, it won't be a problem, it looks like.
Not with news items like this: https://arstechnica.com/information-...nton-supplies/ John Savard |
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Drones my be the next sort of thing to ruin astronomy
On Monday, 27 February 2017 08:04:15 UTC+1, Quadibloc wrote:
Pretty soon, it won't be a problem, it looks like. Not with news items like this: https://arstechnica.com/information-...nton-supplies/ John Savard Presumably the targets hadn't paid their "protection" money? |
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