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‘Flying aliens’ harassing village in Peru are actually illegal miners with jetpacks, cops say::Authorities announced their theory after visiting the isolated Indigenous community where the attacks took place.
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What.
it’s 2023, and… yeah… this story sounds like bad sci-fi, so it’s probably true. I’d read he article, but I’m afraid I’d see the word “unobtainum” and throw my phone across the room.
Nah just gold.
Let’s compromise and have AUstralium
No it sounds like scooby doo
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Read the article right to the end. And think about why illegal miners might want to drive the locals away. And what illegal mining is. The people funding it are not poor and they do have a great deal to gain by not having witnesses around to report on their activities, or to stop them mining their land.
That’s some Scooby-Doo level shit
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Yeah, sorry. It was deffo aliens. My bad.
Sounds like something an alien would say to throw us off.
Nice try, Little Green Lemming. We’re on to you.
More plausible than miners with jetpacks, but less plausible than over-imaginative people in a self-fueled rumor frenzy.
That raises even more questions.
What type of jetpack is it? What sort of fuel does it use? Who made it?
Why would miners need jetpacks? Why can’t I have a jetpack? They promised me flying cars and we don’t have them yet it’s bullshit.
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I’m pretty sure you can get a jetpack nowadays if you have enough money. I have no idea if it’s legal to use it though.
Also flying cars is a stupid concept. And we have had the better equivalent for ages, they are called helicopters. And you can also get an actual flying car nowadays if you have enough money…
I thought we hadn’t figured out a reliable jet pack technology yet other than those stupid water things. Are you telling me Peruvian miners have figured out jet pack technology and are using it to prank villagers?
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at least it would be a cool story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Since people keep asking, if its anything, I bet its a Gravity pack: https://gravity.co/
Lots of search and rescue teams train on these as they are simple to fly, and fairly maneuverable.
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Depends on who is funding them, and how expansive their operations are. Drug Cartels have been caught using these already. Theyre hardly a controlled product.
Do you have a link? I didn’t find anything to support this when I searched. It sounds far fetched.
you can almost certainly just rent them for a short time.
I’m pretty sure you could rent them for the rest of your life if you aren’t careful.
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Were these cops named Fred, Velma and Daphne, cause this headline sounds like it came right out of a Scooby-Doo episode.
Oh yeah yeah jetpacks no worries totally normal
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I don’t even know anymore…
Literal Scooby-Doo shit. Villains trying to scare locals to get at resources.
Just FYI, there are some really wild drugs available in the Peruvian jungle.
Sure, blame it on the illegal miners. It could have been anybody with resources.
You can have resources and mine illegally.
