DroneGuyEd
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The original post dealt with red spots that seemed to appear just after an update. The OP seemed to believe the two events were related. There are many other reports of red spots over the last year or two with similar models. To me it seemed likely they were related, but DJI or others who get the chance to evaluate the actual hardware will get a better idea.
We get hit by space stuff every day. Most of it never makes it to the surface of the Earth and burns up first. Our planet is covered mostly by water (something like 71%). Of the land portion, actual people density is quite small. So the cases where stuff makes it down still has pretty tiny odds of actually hitting a person. There appear to be very few cases of people actually hit by anything from space…asteroids, meteors, space junk, etc.
Some of the objects that do make it to the surface are large and can do significant damage. The Chicxulub Crater was about 65 million years ago and thought to be a rock 100 miles wide or more. The Tunguska event of 1908 is the most recent large object experience with the Earth…although it was believed to be one that exploded before it reached the ground (believed to be an object of a few hundred feet in size). The Russian event of 2013 was thought to be about 60 feet and also exploded in mid air. Big things do hit the Earth, but it’s pretty rare.
As far as lightning goes, being hit is many times more likely (as in 1 followed by a number of zeros). I am at the beach this week. Of the 12 people here…one had been hit by lighting some decades ago. Each year thousands of people are hit by lightning. Some estimates put the estimate at 200,000+ with deaths in about 10% of the cases.
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