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Originally posted by Human_Alien
Originally posted by DrHammondStoat
If you're (the author not the op) are calling something a mothership then you're not looking at it without prejudice.
Agreed! However, I did run across this tidbit in UFO Blogger. I doubt they'd get many readers if they called it a lens flare (we got that covered with NASA and Phage) So....doesn't take a mathematician to do the math but I do wholeheartedly agree withcha "Mothership" should be stricken from the UFO dictionary unless someone first- handedly witnessed one.
Originally posted by ThinkingCap
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by FlySolo
The primary public SDO website provides browse data with a cadence of about 15 minutes. The spacecraft takes images with a much higher cadence. Full cadence (12 seconds) FITS files and available but images at 33 seconds are more readily available in JP2 format.
jsoc.stanford.edu...
The "mothership" appears in a single frame. It does not appear in the frame 33 seconds before or the frame 33 seconds afterward.edit on 7/23/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Learn something new every day.
So - cool tracers on this glitch/object --- it only has 33 seconds to buzz in and out, that makes it gigantic, and extremely fast --- or a glitch.
Still doesn't seem to rule it out, as we don't know how quickly an E.T craft can move.
Would assume that their technology would be pretty advanced to be hanging out with Sol - no?
Originally posted by Human_Alien
I thought I'd screen grab this photo (which is included in the original link) to give viewers a better idea of how large this is.
I estimate this being a couple of Jupiter's long.
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), led from the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL), provides full-disk imaging of the Sun in ten white light, ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) band passes at high spatial and temporal resolution. The four telescopes that provided the individual light feeds for the instrument were designed and built at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).[14] Unfortunately, after launch it was discovered that there is a speck of dust on the CCD.
Originally posted by Evolutionsend
Originally posted by Human_Alien
I thought I'd screen grab this photo (which is included in the original link) to give viewers a better idea of how large this is.
I estimate this being a couple of Jupiter's long.
I have no idea what it is, but a few times the size of Jupiter? That's pretty crazy considering Jupiter isn't far from being a red dwarf star in external dimensions (not mass).
This begs the question, how could anyone possibly build something that large? Wouldn't it's mere presence in our solar system throw things off? How would the structure remain intact, and not implode on itself?
Interesting find, but I can't imagine it being a solid object. It has to be a trick of light.
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
When considering there ARE STARS much larger then SOL why is it hard to then consider the planets near these GIANT stars being GIANTS as well and their manufacturing capabilities being massive or on a scale not imaginable on an EA*RTH scale... I dont know if this is REAL or not but it IS possible to have craft this massive in this universe.
Originally posted by eriktheawful
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
When considering there ARE STARS much larger then SOL why is it hard to then consider the planets near these GIANT stars being GIANTS as well and their manufacturing capabilities being massive or on a scale not imaginable on an EA*RTH scale... I dont know if this is REAL or not but it IS possible to have craft this massive in this universe.
Because: you have no way to prove that what we are seeing is in fact near the sun. At all.
Look at the moon. How big is it? 1,738 km.
Look at the sun. How big is it? 1,392,000 km.
Yet, because the moon is at the distance it is from us, and the sun is at the distance it is from us, they look almost the same size.