Stroboscopic effect makes chopper's blades appear motionless

The word stroboscopic always makes me think of

Late news breakin’, this just in
Tonight there was a power cut in the city of madness
And all conversations died in the burst of a solar flare
In the darkness an angel won the beauty pageant
Stroboscopic snowflakes fell from the stratosphere
And all the neon blew down funky Broadway
And shorted out the eastern shore
Only saxophones and beach trombones
Were left to shout out
“We all need a little more”

from Tony Adams by Joe Strummer