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Jaytee said:

it’s time to start shooting these things. See how fast the owners will show up. Only then will we get the truth. 

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I’ve been trying to warn people about giant coyotes for years and nobody is taking it seriously.  The photo evidence will be helpful. 

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Discussion: We're on the new server - tweaking issues

I'm guessing we'll shut down for a bit starting at around 11:30 - 12 tonight.

Cross your fingers!

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Getting there.

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Discussion: Drone over SOMA or thereabouts
In the "giant animal/forced perspective" vein:

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The Star-Ledger has updated their news service to be just online and I am playing with the site to get my daily drone news.  MOL has become a better drone news source.  

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first it was the election.

now this.

the world must think we're the dumbest country on earth.

I just saw a clip of a news report, from WABC I think, that showed an image of an orb in the sky. The reporter blathered some nonsense about "what could it be?"

Apparently it was Venus.

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mjc said:

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HatsOff said:

I found this Slate article that shows the same coyote scene from a different angle. I went scouring the internet because I couldn't make any sense out of that photo, but it is clear once you see what is really going on.

https://slate.com/technology/2015/07/coyotes-in-new-york-and-chicago-urban-ecology-of-rats-geese-deer-feral-cats.html

  I'm used to smaller, thinner, grayer, scruffier ones (mostly sightings were in southern Calif). 

Well, the ones in the southwest only eat roadrunners, which are notoriously difficult to catch.

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Uber eats now got even quicker…

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In 1980-1982 a helicopter traced back and forth around Essex County for weeks.   No reason was given by the government at the time.  About a year later, the NJDEP reported that they had mapped out the high radium areas of the county.  Hundreds of homes and parks were affected.  These were the sites where radium slag dirt was dumped from the glow-in-the-dark watch factory on Alden Ave. in Orange.  It became a Federal Superfund site and took about ten years to remediate.  It is amazing that the DEP was able to accurately map radium dump sites via a radiation detector in the helicopter.  

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