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News Briefs 09-09-2011

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

Many thanks to GT, RPJ, RMG and Kat.

Quote of the Day:

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”

Winston Churchill

  1. UFO Notre Dame Football Stadium
    I always like a believable UFO video though clearly there are rare. The video of the unidentified flying object during the lightning storm is referenced to as a Rod by the poster and this is accurate since rods are purely a phenomena of shutter speed of the camera used. The object in question in the video is a bird. If you watch closely the body is what you see as solid since it is traveling directionally. The wings you don’t see mostly because they are flapping at a speed beyond the camera’s ability to capture in a single frame, hence they become translucent blurs lost to the rain and gray clouds. As the object arcs away from the camera on the right side of the screen you will notice the tell tale blurs of the flapping wings aside the body.

    Anyone who has used cameras, especially the modern digital cameras extensively has experienced the motion blur due to slow shutter speed. I have umpteen ruined pictures of my young children where their arms are motion blurred while flailing yet their bodies appear solid as they were more stationary. Just because the picture says they have 12 arms that are translucent doesn’t make it reality. Too often honest analysis is ignored in the desire to believe.

    1. Young children

      I have umpteen ruined pictures of my young children where their arms are motion blurred while flailing yet their bodies appear solid as they were more stationary.

      Why don’t you just come out & admit you’re the father of some Rods, dude? 😛

      1. Seeing is Believing
        Actually I think I’ve developed the unique ability to photograph their true forms as they appear in the fourth dimension where they really do have twelve arms:)

  2. Unidentified Flying Building . . . I kinda doubt it
    Looking at the MUFON photo posted as evidence, the “flying building” appears to be an advertising banner trailing behind a small plane (a very, very common sight in the skies where I live). The haze and low resolution may have rendered the plane invisible in the photo (or it could have been Photo Shopped out).

    Sorry, but I see these things daily out my office window and often the plane towing the banner is quite a distance ahead of it and often not readily noticeable because of that.

    Much ado about nothing.

    1. Churchill quote
      Greetings!

      Discovered the intro quote while sifting through pages of Winston Churchill speeches and quotes. This particular quote (reportedly) came from a speech Churchill gave upon receiving the London Times Literary Award on November 2, 1949.

      Perhaps Sir Ernest Gower was Churchill’s ‘ghost speech-writer’… 🙂

      Cheers!

  3. Apollo landing site images
    “New Apollo landing site images threaten to thwart conspiracy theorists”

    Oh ya? Never!

    Some people believe only what they want to believe no matter how stupid it is!

    Hahaha!

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