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You can see the actual camera motion in the small arcs near the two brightest stars. Looks like a small bump and a rotation, maybe over half a second

Plus it was allowed to expire. If it was patenting something that actually worked, it would be of extraordinary importance and value. But it was allowed to expire for non payment of maintenance fees?

@Gaspa - I was kinda playing devils advocate here in recognizing that many of our resolutions aren't proven and that many people disagree with our position. The skeptics' biases make them believe the simplest, conservative, most likely, least...

Thread about the patent here, US Navy "UFO" patent by Salvatore Cezar Pais (also relevant post #41 by @FatPhil in the Meta Materials From UFOs thread). In that thread, @flarkey linked to The War Zone article "The Navy Finally Speaks Up About...

I assume you know that "credible" is a subjective judgment on your part. But I'm not sure why you apply it solely to the people who make claims of things like crashed UFOs, but not to the people who say we have no such material and it never...

@Gaspa - I was kinda playing devils advocate here in recognizing that many of our resolutions aren't proven and that many people disagree with our position. The skeptics' biases make them believe the simplest, conservative, most likely, least...

NorCal Dave did a good summary of this case. I was the one who provided Brian Dunning with the general timeline and Brophy connection and all that. Quick recap: Pinotti got those documents, it was a relatively mild story, nothing in the telegrams...

@Gaspa - I was kinda playing devils advocate here in recognizing that many of our resolutions aren't proven and that many people disagree with our position. The skeptics' biases make them believe the simplest, conservative, most likely, least...

We might be veering slightly off-topic, here. But I hope this will clarify things enough so we can move back to the original topic. Indeed this is one of Shermer's "stock phrases" to introduce topics and, as @Gary C said above, to keep...

If the purpose of the Navy Patent was to lay prior claim to "inertial mass reduction" before TTSA could CRADA - failure of TTSA would be an expected outcome, Leading on to your point: The navy wouldn't need to maintain the patent as A: inertial...

Prompted by this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/a-way-of-simulating-the-effect-of-a-camera-bump-on-night-sky-images-of-flaring-starlinks.14940/ I implemented a reasonably physically accurate long exposure simulation. The issue with...

Is that the World Cup?