tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post4660607946567705431..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Aliens that weren't aliensSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28174894927025983002021-07-04T02:21:45.029-04:002021-07-04T02:21:45.029-04:00I saw this article and thought it fit:
https://sl...I saw this article and thought it fit:<br /><br />https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/pentagon-ufo-uap-report-military-sensors.htmlC Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723392308309671498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-5547427726543344102021-06-19T03:46:42.109-04:002021-06-19T03:46:42.109-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mr. Jonathan Camphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06001639663507984948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21334283193686415202021-06-04T14:19:39.314-04:002021-06-04T14:19:39.314-04:00IMHO that wouldn't be a factor at these light ...IMHO that wouldn't be a factor at these light levels and exposure times. Nor are they sensor dust, or junk on the lens.<br /><br />I'm a photographer too, and I'll offer the opinion that the photo shows something well outside the plane, possibly close to the water, although it doesn't quite register with me as a "solid object". I won't speculate beyond that; but jim_hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618326446656475641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37774586833744756472021-06-04T12:45:46.639-04:002021-06-04T12:45:46.639-04:00Some of these UFOs look like sensor pixel burnout ...Some of these UFOs look like sensor pixel burnout in which individual pixels get over saturated with photons and overflow to nearby pixels. I used to run into this problem when I did astrophotography.Steve Bullfoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13990244011256349875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62258764023971234952021-06-04T07:43:08.058-04:002021-06-04T07:43:08.058-04:00Of the 3 photos, seen at 4:40, the top left image ...Of the 3 photos, seen at 4:40, the top left image taken from Lt. Cmdr. Dietrich’s cockpit shows a bright streak that by its intensity and color is undoubtedly a reflected and distorted image of the sun in upper part of the glass canopy. Only the middle image (top right) gives the appearance of a white colored propane tank seen at an oblique angle, at least that’s the impression I got. This David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-90120545274779517322021-06-04T06:40:36.436-04:002021-06-04T06:40:36.436-04:00Even the recent videos of a UFO seen on combat air...Even the recent videos of a UFO seen on combat aircraft are odd. They are dark appearing apparent objects, but they have no detail. It is also interesting to note that while its orientation changes, it remains fixed in the frame of the camera. It does not move relative to the pointing of the camera. This strongly suggests this is some optical phenomenon.Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33595470654326911732021-06-03T12:00:58.180-04:002021-06-03T12:00:58.180-04:00I've now seen the photos. Like all UFO photos,...I've now seen the photos. Like all UFO photos, they're of low quality and taken at a great distance with an insufficiently long lens. To me the Tic-Tac looks more like a reflective bubble than a solid object - except for 2 apparent projections on opposite sides.<br /><br />As has been the case for over 50 years - it's interesting, but no more than that. These reports are certainly jim_hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618326446656475641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-82614901957417894742021-06-03T09:32:58.036-04:002021-06-03T09:32:58.036-04:00The lack of any clear still photos is one reason I...The lack of any clear still photos is one reason I've remained skeptical. If there are stills I hope they'll be in the upcoming report.jim_hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618326446656475641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-34573341702560758722021-06-02T14:18:55.117-04:002021-06-02T14:18:55.117-04:00Took a break from lawn restoration and checked You...Took a break from lawn restoration and checked Youtube for any more Navy videos of what potentially could be craft from alien civilizations. I found one put up 2 days ago by Jake Broe, a currently serving Air Force officer, titled: “Air Force Officer Reacts to UFOs Confirmed by DoD”. It looked like a rehash of the 3 Pentagon videos, but I watched the first few minutes anyways. To my surprise David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53009304067589708012021-05-30T11:58:03.516-04:002021-05-30T11:58:03.516-04:00I made an obvious error in judgement regarding the...I made an obvious error in judgement regarding the notion of a robust shrinkage and expansion of the physical body of the object in the “GoFast” video, mentioned upthread at 9:19 AM, May 29, 2021. In that comment I suggested the visibly expanded rear portion of the FLIR target and the clearly much thinner diameter of the forward section might be evidence for a localized warp field. It was David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91136444789740870692021-05-29T09:19:32.037-04:002021-05-29T09:19:32.037-04:00There might be circumstantial evidence for an oper...There might be circumstantial evidence for an operational warp drive in 2 of the 3 Pentagon videos of UAP’s released in 2017. In the video labeled “GoFast” a squished, pear-shaped object is moving horizontally to the left above a cloud deck. The narrow part of the ‘pear’ is at the front; e.g. in the direction of motion, while the fat part is on the rear side. Additionally, the ‘pear’s’ axis isDavid Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-24708694423124193752021-05-29T08:00:20.197-04:002021-05-29T08:00:20.197-04:00Since free will is questionable, everything we hav...Since free will is questionable, everything we have produced has been created by a complex natural physico-chemical process called "humanization", nothing fancy... We can only dream of other complex phenomena and how they would look like.Catalinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192244112905762189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16421787380449631582021-05-29T07:42:19.138-04:002021-05-29T07:42:19.138-04:00A temperature inversion can lens light on a parabo...A temperature inversion can lens light on a parabolic-like path. Last decade a case of UFO sightings were identified as the image of a town being seen in the sky this way. The lights appeared in the sky and appeared to move around. <br /><br />I suspect most UFO sightings are optical phenomena of one sort or another. Ice crystals at high altitudes can scatter light, such as seen in sun-dogs or Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33411053051525854522021-05-29T05:20:50.016-04:002021-05-29T05:20:50.016-04:00@David
I'd bet a bag of jellybeans that the us...@David<br />I'd bet a bag of jellybeans that the usual weather, atmosphere and vehicle/aircraft lights are the cause, with human perception added in for fun. Some of the phenomena I've seen photos of are pretty spectacular in their own right. I'm guessing you've seen images yourself. <br />I think some people might do better with a bit more interest in the physical stuff on Earth C Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723392308309671498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4629888461043050032021-05-28T12:38:31.038-04:002021-05-28T12:38:31.038-04:00The UFOs are not actually objects, they are balls ...The UFOs are not actually objects, they are balls of light called plasmoids.<br /><br />The word plasmoid was coined in 1956 by Winston H. Bostick (1916-1991) to mean a "plasma-magnetic entity"<br /><br />"The plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus. We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means Axilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07190120527431077518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84703634860472866462021-05-28T06:56:57.038-04:002021-05-28T06:56:57.038-04:00@C Thompson:
I'm 99.999% sure that something ...@C Thompson:<br /><br />I'm 99.999% sure that something like that is what caused the white marks on my pictures. It was just the fact that the objects visually observed by the four aviators were noted to be white in color, and I was in the region where these tic-tacs were being tracked on radar, that caused me to do a double take.<br />Last night at 7:57 US EDT I caught the last bit of "David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91373667144925776222021-05-28T01:30:24.047-04:002021-05-28T01:30:24.047-04:00If these "unidentified flying objects" w...If these "unidentified flying objects" were actually objects, then a sonic boom would be produced as they passed the sound barrier. Since no sonic boom has ever been reported one can only conclude that no such objects exist. Better to call them "unidentified visual artifacts."DocGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63043439518517609942021-05-27T13:53:20.300-04:002021-05-27T13:53:20.300-04:00Hi David,
I wonder if the white marks on those pho...Hi David,<br />I wonder if the white marks on those photos might have been something that got onto the film when it was exposed somehow?<br />I had white artefacts appear on prints I made from a roll of film I'd manually spooled and developed in tech college, I don't know if a normal film might have a similar issue, if not an emulsion flaw?C Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723392308309671498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-46671557149069763402021-05-27T10:24:06.536-04:002021-05-27T10:24:06.536-04:00The Las Vegas-established 'likelihood' of ...The Las Vegas-established 'likelihood' of advanced extraterrestrials will remain extremely low right up until the day it becomes 100%.jim_hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618326446656475641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-41716259723115367832021-05-27T08:17:13.073-04:002021-05-27T08:17:13.073-04:00I could scarcely believe it. I was about to fall a...I could scarcely believe it. I was about to fall asleep in front of the TV after watching two back to back episodes of Josh Gates exploring caves in Israel’s Dead Sea region for Biblical era scrolls, when Expedition X started up. Amazingly, his two young investigators Phil Torres and Jessica Chobot were looking into reports of both UFO’s and Unidentified Submerged Objects (USO’s) near Catalina David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-65823033095094669142021-05-26T07:54:23.915-04:002021-05-26T07:54:23.915-04:00In my previous comment at 12:42 PM, May 25, 2021 I...In my previous comment at 12:42 PM, May 25, 2021 I speculated that white-colored emulsion defects present in a clear blue sky above the Coronado peninsula, on two photos taken from a hotel window in San Diego in quick succession, might have been an early capture of one of the now famous tic-tac AUP’s, visually observed by four naval aviators in November 2004. The aviators described the tic-tac David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-42604614674523751992021-05-25T12:42:18.985-04:002021-05-25T12:42:18.985-04:00A couple of days ago I watched a Youtube video tit...A couple of days ago I watched a Youtube video titled: “Was Earth visited by intelligent life? Astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes it was”, posted on 22 March 2021. Professor Loeb is interviewed by Frank Buckley, and discusses his interpretation of Oumuamua as a light sail sent off into interstellar space perhaps millions of years ago by a technical civilization. Surprisingly, Professor Loeb David Schroederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18048116250413347228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9105873780104622742021-05-25T09:44:20.021-04:002021-05-25T09:44:20.021-04:00Nobody is saying it is impossible. It just appears...Nobody is saying it is impossible. It just appears implausible, should we say a tiny Bayesian prior. We have sent 5 craft into interstellar space. 12 humans walked on another planetary body, though that is about a billionth the distance to another star. Yet, on balance the "Jimmy the Greek" odds we might put on this Oumuamua being an alien artifact must be tiny.Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75602939102003482682021-05-25T05:49:03.790-04:002021-05-25T05:49:03.790-04:00Sabine states above that she will in two weeks wri...Sabine states above that she will in two weeks write about the "Mars face" and I presume related issues. I will leave this for the most part until then. UFOs have been around for many decades, and from what I have seen absolutely nothing has been really found or learned from them.Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76033855287868084062021-05-25T05:46:30.445-04:002021-05-25T05:46:30.445-04:00Why do we prefer to think of Oumuamua as a chunk o...Why do we prefer to think of Oumuamua as a chunk of nitrogen scattered of a plutoid dwarf planet somewhere by an impact, rather than see space aliens? It is for much the same reason pulsars were determined to be rotating neutron stars. Which is more plausible? It is contrary to this reasonable to think that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. It is also not unreasonable to think Lawrence Crowellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12090839464038445335noreply@blogger.com