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Originally posted by RFBurns
Now here is the real catcher, and puzzler of all this mess. And I welcome our friend to provide the answer if he has one.
IF all this stuff seen in these videos, and this object in STS 114 is mere ice particles from waste dumps, junk or space debris....why is not the entire, uneditied, uncensored videos NOT available to the public? Why are only bits and pieces found at hundreds of places across the interent the only thing anyone has to work with?
If there is nothing out there but ice/junk/debris....then there should be no reason as to why we have nothing here (complete videos) to work with.
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by RFBurns
Now here is the real catcher, and puzzler of all this mess. And I welcome our friend to provide the answer if he has one.
IF all this stuff seen in these videos, and this object in STS 114 is mere ice particles from waste dumps, junk or space debris....why is not the entire, uneditied, uncensored videos NOT available to the public? Why are only bits and pieces found at hundreds of places across the interent the only thing anyone has to work with?
If there is nothing out there but ice/junk/debris....then there should be no reason as to why we have nothing here (complete videos) to work with.
I'd love to see the letter you got from NASA announcing they would NOT release that video to you. Please show us the letter.
Wait, you never asked them for the video? You don't know of anyone who did ask them, who was refused?
Uh, gee, then I really don't see how you can proclaim the video is 'not available to the public'. I'm not following your chain of evidence here.
Originally posted by JimOberg
Uh, gee, then I really don't see how you can proclaim the video is 'not available to the public'. I'm not following your chain of evidence here.
Originally posted by RFBurns
Anyone can test that by simply taking a spray bottle or can and note how the mist behaves. Nothing fantastically scientific about that. The only difference is that down here, in Earth's gravity, the mist will go down to the floor, where as up in zero G, that mist will travel outward in the direction of where the spray is directed. But the principle of the spray force still applies. The center of the mist will have more spray force than the outer parts of the sprayed mist.
Also it is my opinion that camera angle, shuttle orientation, or its orbital position, has no evidence to conclude what that object is in STS 114.
Comparing STS 114 to other STS videos where thruster blast plumes are clearly seen, we see no evidence of a thruster blast in STS 114. The camera is in extra sensitive mode, meaning that even a slight blast plume should be picked up by the camera,...
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by RFBurns
Anyone can test that by simply taking a spray bottle or can and note how the mist behaves. Nothing fantastically scientific about that. The only difference is that down here, in Earth's gravity, the mist will go down to the floor, where as up in zero G, that mist will travel outward in the direction of where the spray is directed. But the principle of the spray force still applies. The center of the mist will have more spray force than the outer parts of the sprayed mist.
Be sure to also do it in a vacuum. I'll hold your coat, and stand... over here.
Originally posted by JimOberg
The 'curving' of the waste water particles is interesting, because they DO need some force acting on them, and that force, in that case, is probably molecular flow from the dump valve.
Originally posted by JimOberg
This is why it's important to know, in the 114 video, where is the dump valve in relation to the cirver, and specifically, in relation to the force being generated from left to change the curver's path.
Originally posted by JimOberg
The information by which you can lay out the position of the shuttle hardware relative to the camera's field of view is contained in the 'Update Package' link, and other data such as the 'scene list', that was posted some time ago. I had posted my own interpretation of that layout, for discussion.
Originally posted by JimOberg
I was dismayed to notice some responses asserting that the actual alignment, or even the illumination conditions, were irrelevant to 'knowing' that the curving dot had to be a vehicle under intelligent control. But perhaps now we are converging on agreement that such context knowledge is critical to evaluating proposed prosaic causes.
Originally posted by JimOberg
The distance to the background 'fleet' of particles is also important, because it speaks to the fundamental question of how far away shuttle-generated particles can be seen. Watching their illumination state changes during shuttle sunrise would provide an excellent indicator of actual range.
Originally posted by JimOberg
That can be done with a longer video of the sequence. Getting that video can be accomplished by at least three methods:
1. Asking Martyn Stubbs, and the Jeff Challender family, and others who also taped the entire sequence live when it was broadcast over 'NASA TV', to find it and post it.
2. Asking NASA to provide a copy of the lengthened video, with time tags and audio.
3. Holding one's breath, turning purple, and insisting that that NASA post all mission video for all shuttle missions on youtube, and whining if they don't find the time or money to do it tomorrow.
Is anybody currently following any of those approaches?
Originally posted by JimOberg
Also it is my opinion that camera angle, shuttle orientation, or its orbital position, has no evidence to conclude what that object is in STS 114.
My view is, the more contextual information you have, the more likely to arrive at a rational explanation of the event. Perhaps that's why some people do NOT want that information to become available.
Originally posted by JimOberg
By no means. Thruster pulses can 'flare' as videos show, but that flare is directed near the centerline. The thruster pulse produces an effluent cloud that expands in all directions, weaker near the margins but still adequate to disturb the motions of floating small particles -- and totally invisible. The only reliable step is to obtain thruster firing history data, such as the data that shows for STS-48 that thruster L5D fired during and only during the period when particles on the screen were changing direction, all away from the effluent source.
Originally posted by JimOberg
I guess the bottom line is, RF is not going to ask for the video. Has anybody else ever asked -- after all these years of discussions that RF referred to. One person?
Originally posted by ArMaP
Do you mean something like this?
Originally posted by Exuberant1
To save money NASA could even start Youtube channels for each STS mission
Originally posted by franspeakfree
If NASA can be trusted why don't they provide live video feed in all of its missions? I mean we pay them enough, don't we at least deserve to see what we are getting with OUR money?
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by franspeakfree
If NASA can be trusted why don't they provide live video feed in all of its missions? I mean we pay them enough, don't we at least deserve to see what we are getting with OUR money?
Aside from transmission and processing delays (measured in seconds), what evidence is there that you're NOT getting 'live feeds'? Take a look at any specific dynamic events on the flight plans, which we've now posted links for. Then watch it on NASA TV. Does it happen on the downlink TV when it was scheduled to? Try this out at home, by all means, and report back to the thread, please.
Do you see a pattern in your 'questions', that actually themselves often contain dubious (or at least debatable) assumptions?
Originally posted by RFBurns
Are you aware that 99 precent of the "live" stuff people see on tv is actually delayed by up to 5 minutes? Its an FCC requirement so that any foul language or inappropriate scenery can be cut out. ....
Dont think for one minute that NASA would not use that same technique on their "live" feeds.
Originally posted by JimOberg
Originally posted by RFBurns
Are you aware that 99 precent of the "live" stuff people see on tv is actually delayed by up to 5 minutes? Its an FCC requirement so that any foul language or inappropriate scenery can be cut out. ....
Dont think for one minute that NASA would not use that same technique on their "live" feeds.
Funny, when there's been a monitor in the corner of our NBC news trailer at NASA and we're doing live shots from the mini-studio, the broadcast version seems to pop up a second or two after the person says the stuff. I'll have to watch more closely for this five-minute delay.
Originally posted by JimOberg
If it is an FCC requirement, however, how come you and your buddies are blaming and denouncing NASA for doing it? If they even are... because I suggested a method, above, that can be used in coming days to verify the degree of time lag between pre-scheduled events and NASA TV's showing them. I urge readers here to try this at home and report their results.
Originally posted by RFBurns
Originally posted by JimOberg
Funny, when there's been a monitor in the corner of our NBC news trailer at NASA and we're doing live shots from the mini-studio, the broadcast version seems to pop up a second or two after the person says the stuff. I'll have to watch more closely for this five-minute delay.
Just because there is a little monitor in your MSM van doing live shots at launch times, is not even what we are talking about here!!! We are talking about video DURING the missions..get it folks? Get it Jim? DURING THE MISSIONS...you know, when the shuttle us UP IN ORBIT...DOING MISSIONS!!! Not the launches!!!! ROFLMAO!!!
Thank you for making it perfectly clear that English reading for comprehension is not one of your demonstrated capabilities. You pick fights, and throw mockery, mainly because you fundamentally cannot READ accurately what people have typed here.
Where did I write what you are POSITIVE I wrote, that I was talking about launches? Nowhere? Your malfunctioning brain inserted that extra clause into a passage that did not originally contain it, and you went berserk for no rational purpose. Please, calm down and get more careful.