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Saw an uncorroborated report of someone shining a laser at one, and someone else found that a FedEx flight was flying past at the time, making it a federal crime. Panic and stupidity are a bad combo.

There’s that, but more that it’s people who don’t often look up at the night sky and are unfamiliar with what you see. There’s a reason Venus is often mistaken for a UFO. And it’s even worse these days with all the starlink and other satellites. Now that I have relatively dark skies around me I’ve seen a bunch of them an hour or two after sunset

The “drones” Maryland Governor Hogan filmed recently were stars in the constellation Orion “The stars at the 39 second mark are recognizably the constellation Orion. From this you can determine that the bright lights behind the trees are the stars Sirius and Procyon. No anomalous objects are apparent in this video.” https://katv.com/news/nation-world/larry-hogan-says-dozens-of-drones-flew-over-maryland-home-entirely-unacceptable-new-jersey-md-east-coast-flying-objects-ufos

It’s 20 minutes. Please summarize, as the rules require.

That’s not a rebuttal of the point, nor evidence that supports your contention

That’s not an EMP weapon. As the link says, it’s a directed-energy weapon. There are also devices that try to jam the radio-control of drones

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When you’re asked for evidence of a claim, you’re expected to provide it, rather than continue making claims that lack supporting evidence.

No, they don’t. They never say entanglement in that description. ! Moderator Note Nope. It’s clear you don’t understand what entanglement is, and have resisted all attempts to correct your misunderstanding. Since there’s no new ground to cover, this is closed. Don’t bring it up again.

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If they don’t know, their options are to say so, or lie, which means making something up. If they say it’s drones being flown by Hell’s Angels, then they have to say they’re powerless to stop them, because they can’t go and arrest anyone. And if/when they do find out what’s going on and it’s not Hell’s Angels, they look even more foolish. Sounds like a plan, right? If they don’t say there’s no danger then they have to say there is. I’m sure that wouldn’t cause a panic. “Be afraid” is so very reassuring. News collection is often slow, while dissemination is now fast. The early portion of any story is often filled with conjecture and filler. Think of active shooter stories, or natural disasters, and how much they get wrong in the initial reports. Investigation takes time.

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In that video I saw a couple of objects with flashing lights (one clearly had red in it) just like you’d expect with a plane. Not flying with lights off, as I saw claimed somewhere (how would you see it at night if it has no lights?) The only weird thing to me was the bluish triangle lights. What was not weird was a bunch of people spouting nonsense, like “Iranian mothership” because some people do like getting on TV, and taking ten minutes to present thirty seconds of information with the rest filler opinion and BS, because that’s the curse of 24/7 cable news programming We don’t know until we do, but nothing presented has ruled out a couple of drones + regular plane traffic + mass hysteria because it’s in the news. Or Aqua Teen Hunger Force has a new viral marketing campaign. I saw a post on social media recently about someone in East Germany before the wall fell. They painted small rocks purple and left them around town on occasion, and it drove the Stasi/police nuts trying to figure out what the meaning was because it HAD to mean SOMETHING because that’s how their minds were wired. Once you’ve decided on a conclusion, if you aren’t careful, everything you see will point toward it.

And neither is quantum physics, apparently (“I'm still at GCSE level maths and physics and quantum theory doesn't seem to come into it at this stage.”) so it appears this isn’t about GCSE exams

Then it’s irresponsible to report a size. It might look small, but a jet flying at 10 km looks small.

Yes. As long as the water is above freezing it will tend to melt the ice, but could itself freeze if the ice and pipe are very cold.

In this case, yes, but you can have quadrupole moments, sextupole and octupole moments (and so on for any multipole, but always an even number) for more complex systems.

It’s a measure of how strong a magnet is.

Yes.

Sometimes they will insist you publish in a different journal (e.g. Physical Review Letters has a length limit; longer articles have to be submitted to the appropriate Physical Review journal, such as Phys Rev A for atomic/molecular/optical physics)

Spin with a charged particle gives them a magnetic moment, so “spin up” and “spin down” (the two possible values of the spin orientation) will have a different energy in a magnetic field, which you have in an atom.

Langley’s in Jersey now? When did that happen? “the reported drones have been up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter and sometimes travel with their lights switched off. This is much larger than those typically flown by drone hobbyists and she said they appear to avoid detection by traditional methods such as helicopter and radio. Officials and experts say some witnesses may actually be seeing planes or helicopters rather than drones, or perhaps are confused about the size of the devices they’re seeing.” I want to know how they determined the objects were 6 feet or smaller, especially if they are actually planes or helicopters. Or if they meant to say the drones have been reported to be that size.

They weren’t a problem before Trump was elected. Just sayin’

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Evidence, please.