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But recall that a Harrier can travel extraordinarily slowly.If it is in fact a Harrier, it can even hover, or back up! Source: https://youtu.be/3nYXdVjPUG4?t=225 (It now occurs to me to wonder if that is why they identified it as a Harrier--if...

One more thing. We often assume a great deal about the additional five photographs — not least that the "jet" is visible in several of the frames, moving across the scene. I was quite convinced this was the case, but I'm not so sure anymore. I...

Yes indeed, this is important to remember. Lindsay's copy was most likely made by photographing one of the original color prints. It is slightly damaged — I'm sure it's scratched, there could be stains, and it was stored for decades before being...

True. However, if we assume Lindsay's copy was created by ”taking a photo of a photo”, how exactly would that affect the grain pattern? The grain that Robinson confirms is consistent with Ilford XP (or similar) must be a result of the copying...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB7Nkz-g7EY

HAL never bothered me as much as 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project

Just for reference...this is the camera. It does not get more basic. No focus settings at all. Very basic mechanical shutter. Just two light settings....sunny or cloudy. If I recall correctly, sunny was 1/40th of a second and cloudy was 1/25th...

Just for reference...this is the camera. It does not get more basic. No focus settings at all. Very basic mechanical shutter. Just two light settings....sunny or cloudy. If I recall correctly, sunny was 1/40th of a second and cloudy was 1/25th...

I have come to the conclusion that all synchronic events involving technology "with ears"[1] do not count. ;) [1] With ears meaning anything electronic, you can interact with that is connected to the Internet.

Just went to get ground coffee at local Starbucks drive through. Amazingly as the young punk rock girl handed my bag of coffee to me, I noticed that she had a tattoo of the Bob Dobbs head with his pipe, from the Church of the SubGenius. I...

Sure.....but my Lake District image is from a scan of an original 3 inch by 3 inch print...also 35 years old. Kodak basic prints were small in those days. That loses some of the detail and any blur or lack of focus is magnified with it then being...

HAL never bothered me as much as 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project

In analog photography, as you probably know, there are a *lot* of variables which contribute to the quality of the final print independent of the type of camera used. Here are some: lens quality, exposure (within the films dynamic range), film...

But if that's the case then you should be able to spot the grain structure give-away in this hoax I made. But I can't, because ( as with the Calvine photo ) the level of blur and poor focus overwhelms the grain structure at the edges of the 'UFO'.

Ridpath gets to pick and choose, mix and match, what objects were 'mis-identified' in what would lead to cries of statistical bias or the drawer effect in any proper scientific study. He picks on Sirius....never mind that Jupiter was brighter...