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way
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The claim is that this is not a doctored picture. The page also has links to the pictures taken immediately before and after. It will be interesting to see what is finally determined to be the cause.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html
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furshur
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 14:46:00 [Permalink]
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| "shrug" Don't know. I will bet that it isn't ET though. |
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way
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 15:12:34 [Permalink]
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| I would make that same bet but not because I don't believe ET exists somewhere. Seems reasonable to assume they are out there but they would face the same problems we do for interstellar travel. |
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filthy
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 15:18:19 [Permalink]
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Not a clue, although I've seen waterspouts that looked similiar. It's a bit too straight for that, though and the ones I've seen were much farther at sea.
A funky bit of film? Dunno.
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Ricky
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Siberia
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 08:33:52 [Permalink]
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The answer is quite interesting  I cheated and looked at the link for the answer. |
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Siberia
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 08:45:47 [Permalink]
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Nevermind. I just saw it was the answer to a different problem.
I'd guess a bug flying too close to the screen. |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 12:22:11 [Permalink]
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| It could be a man made object returning from orbit. |
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Storm
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 15:59:02 [Permalink]
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| I think it is a rainboe |
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 16:05:59 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
I'd guess a bug flying too close to the screen.
I concur.
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Ricky
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 16:38:50 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
How would this create the effect of a very light line with a flash where it appears to intersect with the ground?
The flash could be simply overimposed - like a light. |
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 18:53:56 [Permalink]
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| The light appears curved, suggesting light is reflected or refracted. Perhaps through a drop of water on the lens. The darker line seem to me too straight to be a bug in flight. |
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 19:40:55 [Permalink]
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I don't know much about photography, but it seems without knowing shutter speed and exposure time, etc. very little can be determined.
The flight path is straight, but not too straight if we are only talking about something flying six inches from the camera lens.
The light spot does seem to have a body with fuzzier "wing" sections coming out of both ends. At an angle, like this / .
Also, the whitish light/flash whatever seems to obscure the lamp post, meaning it would have been in front of it, rather that splashing in the water behind it.
Again, I'm not an expert, but it just seems simliar to other "rod" photos of UFOs and stuff I've seen. The mere suggestion of something being far away is enought to mess with your ability to think it terms of proper size and depth. I think it's a bug flying close to the lens, a moth maybe, or even a gnat, illuminated by the camera's flash.
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