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Originally posted by nightsider
and even IF i was somehow wrong on this, why are all the disks two dimensional? are they all seen from above or what?
NASA astronauts and mission control describe the show as "debris" and "a couple of star-like things and a lot of things swimming in the foreground." Since we know that the tether is 12 miles long and can clearly see that many of the UFO/entities pass behind the tether, and fall in and out of focus with the tether itself, we can estimate the diameter of the largest at 2-3 miles across.
For those skeptics who would argue that these images represent the "airy disk" phenomenon of optical refraction, here is a very clear piece of video from the mission showing both the airy disk effect and the entities in the same frame. Apparently, the cameraman/astronaut here purposely creates the airy disk phenomenon while recording the "spheres" to allow comparison and to foreclose exactly this explanation.
Originally posted by tock
Some of them have a tilt. And you can see the tilting happening over the width of the screen.
That 2d representation of a sphere or oval shape object wil give you the same shape, no matter when rotation the object has.
Originally posted by subject x
Let me see if I got this.
You can see the tilt......
Originally posted by tock
Some of them have a tilt. And you can see the tilting happening over the width of the screen.
....but you see the same shape regardless of it's rotation.
That 2d representation of a sphere or oval shape object wil give you the same shape, no matter when rotation the object has.
I'm having trouble seeing how you can have it both ways. If the view is the same at any angle, how would you see the tilt?
Just trying to get it straight.
Originally posted by nightsider
yeah, i know that it LOOKS like the object is passing behind the tether, but that is because they are both out of focus. notice that the tether looks really thick, but in reality it isnt. the tether reflects more light than the particles near the camera, so in the video, which is really low quality, the tether is, lets say, "more white" than the particles, and that is why it looks as if some pass behind the tether...
i dont usually debunk ufo videos, but this one is most commonly used, and it discredits ufo researchers when they use it without really thinking about what they are seeing...
Originally posted by gottago
The tether was ionized, so it was basically acting as a filament.
This is a very interesting aspect of the whole question; if you believe these are not dust particles we're seeing--and here we'll just have to agree to disagree--then the critters are being attracted to the EM receptor--much as you see in other STS/UFO vids, where similar critters are attracted to thunder storms.
Since they're only visible in the IR spectrum and look essentially like living, pulsating plasma cells, you could argue they're feeding off the electricity.
In any event, exceedingly strange stuff. Or just bunk, if you think all these vids show space dust.