Sometimes a flashlight just isn't enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Sometimes a flashlight just isn’t enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    13 days ago

    Cause ya know, flares haven’t existed for over a hundred years or anything.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      The long burning parachute flares have to be dropped from an aircraft. The ones you launch from the ground only provide about 30 seconds of light.