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muriel_volestrangler

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5. Thanks - I don't think "completely wrong" is at all justified

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 26, 2024, 10:00 AM

Feb 2024

I read, decades ago, that it's not "they are attracted to the light", but that it was they tried to keep a constant angle with the light, mistaking it for the Moon, which would allow them to travel in a straight line. Get too close, and this becomes an orbit. And that can then go wrong (eg become a spiral, leading to death).

So most of that was right, but it was to maintain level flight, not a straight line.

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