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Originally posted by Immortalgemini527
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
Originally posted by RSF77
Looks like we are all human after all.edit on 14-12-2010 by RSF77 because: Except me of course, I'm a dog.
omg what a beautiful doggie in your avatar... I used to have a dog similar to that. she was such a good girl.
are people in here still arguing about the authenticity of this sighting?
Its funny but,he said he had a [classic UFO SIGHTING] not a flying saucer or a flying triangle.It wasnt even debatable from the get go.
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
Originally posted by Immortalgemini527
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
Originally posted by RSF77
Looks like we are all human after all.edit on 14-12-2010 by RSF77 because: Except me of course, I'm a dog.
omg what a beautiful doggie in your avatar... I used to have a dog similar to that. she was such a good girl.
are people in here still arguing about the authenticity of this sighting?
Its funny but,he said he had a [classic UFO SIGHTING] not a flying saucer or a flying triangle.It wasnt even debatable from the get go.
but look how far it's gone? That's the funny part. I have no idea if it's real or not... I'm in no position to draw a conclusion, I just think the arguing has been amusingly exhaustive.
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
The animation illustrates better than I could describe that the motion was very linear and abrupt... no apparent acceleration/deceleration, just instant full-speed motion
Such work represents a major update of adaptive optics technology that has been around for decades. Ground telescopes use adaptive optics to adjust for the ever-changing blurry effect that comes from peering at space through Earth's atmosphere, but can erase the blurriness only in a tiny view of the sky.
In adaptive optics, computers analyze the light from a natural or artificial guide star as a baseline to figure out the blurriness. Hundreds of actuators can then warp the surface of the telescope mirrors thousands of times per second to cancel out the blurry effect.
The new ground-layer adaptive optics system used five lasers mounted on the 21-foot (6.5-meter) MMT telescope at Mount Hopkins in Arizona. Past systems on other telescopes have used just one laser to create a single artificial guide star.
Each laser points in a different direction so that they end up spread out in a pentagon pattern as they punch more than 15 miles (24 km) into the sky.