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someone told me that I needed to register my drone, but I replied that it technically depends on what you mean by register
for example, if I'm walking down the street and I see a bee then I have registered that bee, in the sense of acknowledging the existence of the aforementioned insect by virtue of a visual sighting. One doesn't need to physically record something to register it. Many people think the incessant buzz of a bee comes from simply the action of its flying, but the bee is able to modify the frequency of its wingbeats to increase or lower the buzz, irrespective of intention to travel. Why it does so remains a mystery, but scientists speculate that it is a way of conveying information to other bees or to warn potential threats. You might say the bees change their register. If bees were able to speak english they would probably say something like "nectar! nectar! nectar! ...Gigantic shape moving near nest!" rather than engage in a philosophical discussion on the nature of their work. Most bees are identical sisters of one another, gentically speaking. They even finish each other's sentences. Once I was stung by a bee in the hand. The wind was extremely strong that day and I think it flew into me by accident, though I guess I'll never learn its true intention as I crushed it to death soon afterwards as it lingered on my hand. Some buddhists in tibet refuse to kill insects as they might be a reincarnated relative according to their particular religious doctrine, however I can't imagine Tibet gets an awful lot of insects being mostly 3000m above sea level and cold, so it's not quite the sacrifice that a buddhist might make living in australia where flies are crawling into your mouth as soon as you get out of the taxi from the airport. This might be why the buddhism did well in tibet instead of sub-saharan africa. Likewise you don't get a lot of muslims amongst the polynesians, who seem overly fond of pork. Anyway I told my friend that I don't own an un-piloted remote controlled quadcopter, so registering my drone is somewhat of a moot point
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