Shot down over PHOENIX. Thoughts? Video

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Very new video on tok tok. Comes from a seemingly legit looking page. Watch til the end. What are your thoughts?

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u/leshake 19d ago edited 19d ago

Let me just say this as someone with a technical background in batteries. The idea that a battery can be sapped has absolutely no basis in our current understanding of science. You could jam antennas or even fry circuit boards with EM waves, yes. But draining a battery requires you to physically move a chemical from one side of a membrane to another and if you did that instantaneously it would explode and catch on fire (like the videos of people puncturing batteries with knives).

So either, you have an alien civilization or secret military device that is so advanced it can teleport battery active material OR that guy was full of shit and/or his drone simply ran out of juice. My money is on something that doesn't violate our fundamental understanding of physics.

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u/Wise-General44 19d ago

When I'm out hunting and my phone gets too cold it will sometimes drain the battery from 50% or so and go to 0 and shut off. Can you please explain why that happens?

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u/ahobbes 19d ago

When a battery gets cold, the chemical reactions slow down. You also get increased internal resistance and voltage sag, which just means less voltage to your device. Your leftover runtime will certainly be reduced if you allow the battery to get really cold. Probably by 10-20% based on my experience with RC Lipo batteries

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u/Wise-General44 19d ago

Thank you for the explanation. That makes sense.