• picklefingers
    +4

    It's not a "spying drone", it's just a quadracopter.

    Really? Of course I know its not a "spying drone". I meant a drone that is spying. Being a quadracopter and spying are not mutually exclusive. What ridiculous pedantry.

    And the rest makes sense. I checked out the video and he seems to have a good argument. Though 193 feet isn't ridiculously high. Thats only a little over half a football field. Still very easy to be spying from.

    • GeniusIComeAnon
      +4

      I suppose you could be spying form 200 feet, but it doesn't seem terribly likely that that was the purpose when they were flying over so quickly.

      • picklefingers (edited 8 years ago)
        +3

        There is no could about it. It is easy to spy from 200 feet. That's not a long distance.

        Edit: Looking back, this isn't really that true. I mean, sure, if you are intentionally trying to spy, I am sure you could upgrade your camera so that its great for spying, but on a normal drone camera, it's probably not good enough.

        • GeniusIComeAnon (edited 8 years ago)
          +3

          Um, what would go in place of could? Unless you want me to say "was"? I wasn't saying maybe, I was saying that it's easily possible, but doesn't appear to be the case in this instance.

        • picklefingers
          +2
          @GeniusIComeAnon -

          Sorry, the italicized made it sound like you were saying it was difficult or something, in conjunction with your earlier statement " it was far too high up to really see people on the ground" which implies that you believe 65 yards is hard to film from.

        • GeniusIComeAnon
          +3
          @picklefingers -

          Ah, okay. I really just meant you can't see people terribly clearly from that high. People are just kind of colorful specks at that point. Mainly because from above you only see people's heads.

        • picklefingers
          +3
          @GeniusIComeAnon -

          I guess. This is all really just pedantry. Sorry for arguing.

        • GeniusIComeAnon
          +3
          @picklefingers -

          It's fine.