Ufo's, for those that are INTERESTED.

[Damocles]

Monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare comes to mind here:

 

[malg]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpwDFWSkaU[/youtube]
Hope this works! Looks dubious to me, in fact it flies a bit like the police car out of Bladerunner!

 

[GStar]

Monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare comes to mind here:

Very helpful.

 

[Damocles]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpwDFWSkaU[/youtube]
Hope this works! Looks dubious to me, in fact it flies a bit like the police car out of Bladerunner!

It's fake, the lens flare's shape is the give away, it is closer to the camera than it should be, which also means that it's a smaller object.

 

[SWP's back]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpwDFWSkaU[/youtube]
Hope this works! Looks dubious to me, in fact it flies a bit like the police car out of Bladerunner!

It's fake, the lens flare's shape is the give away, it is closer to the camera than it should be, which also means that it's a smaller object.

Sorry mate, can you break that down for very stupid (lay)people like me?

 

[Damocles]

Around the 20 second mark, the light hits the camera in such a way that it produces something called lens flare. For a flare this wide to have occurred, the light must have been extremely bright (and there is no evidence of this from the rest of the video), or the 'craft' must have been close to the camera.

It's all to be with the angle that the light is being shone out at. Think of a torch, when you shine it far away, it has a large cone of light, but when you shine it on your hand, the cone is quite small. Therefore, from looking at the power and size of the cone of light, you can guess how far away something is.

Because the light directly hit the camera dead on, it produced a large "circle" of lens flare (at 20 seconds). This means that the cone of light hasn't had a chance to expand yet and is still very focused. If I had to guess something, I would say that it's probably a laser pen light, attached to something and hung using fishing wire. Perhaps even a Chinese lantern with some funky flashing toy lights inside.

Either way, that 'craft' isn't high in the sky, it is relatively low, no more than 20 feet.

 

[SWP's back]

Around the 20 second mark, the light hits the camera in such a way that it produces something called lens flare. For a flare this wide to have occurred, the light must have been extremely bright (and there is no evidence of this from the rest of the video), or the 'craft' must have been close to the camera.

It's all to be with the angle that the light is being shone out at. Think of a torch, when you shine it far away, it has a large cone of light, but when you shine it on your hand, the cone is quite small. Therefore, from looking at the power and size of the cone of light, you can guess how far away something is.

Because the light directly hit the camera dead on, it produced a large "circle" of lens flare (at 20 seconds). This means that the cone of light hasn't had a chance to expand yet and is still very focused. If I had to guess something, I would say that it's probably a laser pen light, attached to something and hung using fishing wire. Perhaps even a Chinese lantern with some funky flashing toy lights inside.

Either way, that 'craft' isn't high in the sky, it is relatively low, no more than 20 feet.

Thanks for taking the time to explain matey. I see what you mean and you have a point.

 

[johnny on the spot]

Thanks for bringing this thread back from the brink, chaps.

 

[bluemanc]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpwDFWSkaU[/youtube]
Hope this works! Looks dubious to me, in fact it flies a bit like the police car out of Bladerunner!

It barks like a dog ??<br /><br />-- Mon May 31, 2010 9:00 pm --<br /><br />

Around the 20 second mark, the light hits the camera in such a way that it produces something called lens flare. For a flare this wide to have occurred, the light must have been extremely bright (and there is no evidence of this from the rest of the video), or the 'craft' must have been close to the camera.

It's all to be with the angle that the light is being shone out at. Think of a torch, when you shine it far away, it has a large cone of light, but when you shine it on your hand, the cone is quite small. Therefore, from looking at the power and size of the cone of light, you can guess how far away something is.

Because the light directly hit the camera dead on, it produced a large "circle" of lens flare (at 20 seconds). This means that the cone of light hasn't had a chance to expand yet and is still very focused. If I had to guess something, I would say that it's probably a laser pen light, attached to something and hung using fishing wire. Perhaps even a Chinese lantern with some funky flashing toy lights inside.

Either way, that 'craft' isn't high in the sky, it is relatively low, no more than 20 feet.

Rubbish:)

 

[Skashion]

I still want a discussion of the Fermi Paradox and there's just no indication of it happening.

So, I'm going to ask a question of everybody who looks at this thread in the hope of provoking it. If intelligent life is so likely to exist elsewhere, why do we see no sign of it?