Timeline for Is it possible for a flying superhuman to avoid detection in todays society?
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| Aug 7 at 5:45 | comment | added | Chris H | @TheDemonLord a candle in total darkness, but a comment above (yours, not the OP's as I first thought) mentions 3m jets of flame. A candle flame is maybe a cubic centimetre; a 3m jet roughly the size of a human foot is 30 000 cubic cm and you've got 2 to consider. At 60 000 candle equivalent that's going to be more visible than aircraft navigation lights (more light than landing lights but omnidirectional), and look different. | |
| Aug 6 at 20:07 | comment | added | TheDemonLord | @ChrisH - Yes, but that is in total darkness. Not NYC with all its light pollution. You are not going to see an Afterburning flame at significant altitude for something the size of a Human. | |
| Aug 6 at 20:03 | comment | added | TheDemonLord | @edgerunner - You should tell that to the USAF, they will be disappointed to learn that all their stealth aircraft no-longer work. | |
| Aug 6 at 19:32 | comment | added | edgerunner | One other criterion radars use for filtering is speed. There are no bumblebees flying at Mach 2, so a radar would not filter out the one supersonic bumblebee. The speed is too significant to ignore. | |
| Aug 6 at 13:09 | comment | added | Chris H | @TheDemonLord if it's bright enough you can see a light source arbitrarily far away in darkness. According to this article in the MIT Tech Review in total darkness a human eye could see a candle at 2.76 km. That's not far short of 10kft. So in daylight, fine, but at night, you'll be getting reports of meteorites | |
| Aug 6 at 6:40 | comment | added | Syndic | @TheDemonLord here's hoping he will only "fly over" NYC, and not intend to actually LAND (and take off) anywhere populated^^ | |
| Aug 5 at 21:15 | comment | added | TheDemonLord | @MindwinRememberMonica - The Flaming Jets are a moot point once you get high enough. Hence my point about flying above 10,000 ft. It might be higher - but the notion you can see a 3 metre long flame that far away - No. As for Infared - Who is routinely using Infared to scan the skies - No one. It is the same point about getting close enough to a Fighter jet. | |
| Aug 5 at 19:49 | vote | accept | Coolcats112 | ||
| Aug 5 at 11:59 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | Since this answer does not address the flaming jets the character uses for propulsion, I assume it was posted BEFORE the edit. The infrared signature and the light emitted might make radar cross-section moot. | |
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| Aug 5 at 1:22 | comment | added | Monty Wild♦ | Commercial radars for air traffic control don't typically get a 'skin paint' IIRC... they basically ping transponders, and the pinged aircraft squawks its ID in response. It's only military transponders that attempt to get skin paints these days. | |
| Aug 4 at 22:34 | history | answered | TheDemonLord | CC BY-SA 4.0 |