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  • R
    Youtube recommended that original viral video so I wanted to see what that object was as well. Thanks to the group's sleuthing and a few minutes of search I think I'm pretty sure it's this: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kuBAsWY-c...
  • NorCal Dave
    Recall though that the goal of art is not always (or perhaps it is more accurate to say "is seldom") to create 100% accurate historical facsimiles. Art is about interpreting, adapting, finding things to say, evoking emotion. Look at this here...
  • Ann K
    Youtube recommended that original viral video so I wanted to see what that object was as well. Thanks to the group's sleuthing and a few minutes of search I think I'm pretty sure it's this: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kuBAsWY-c...
  • Ann K
    I did too, but years ago when we lived at White Sands Missile Range (New Mexico) I also used it for watching incoming test rockets. They'd fire one from Utah (Green River) and six minutes later we could look at Polaris, then see TWO north stars...
  • Z.W. Wolf
    Clarification: I was sloppy here. Sloppy thinking. When the Sun is 22 degrees above the horizon, the lower tangent arc will only be a few degrees across. I'd better not estimate how much in the vertical. A lower tangent arc at maximum will be...
  • Ann K
    Agreed with the caveat that I do not find meteors, re-entering space debris, or the ISS prosaic as we commonly use the word. Those are things I actually enjoy watching for and that may be an additional distinction between believers and myself...
  • Z.W. Wolf
    Should correct. The circumzenithal arc is caused by flat hexagonal plate crystals. Sunlight enters the horizontal top face (basal face) and refracts out through a vertical side face (prism face). It's the lower tangent arc that is caused by...
  • Z.W. Wolf
    Youtube recommended that original viral video so I wanted to see what that object was as well. Thanks to the group's sleuthing and a few minutes of search I think I'm pretty sure it's this: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kuBAsWY-c...
  • Z.W. Wolf
    Wow. Anton Petrov... Big fan.
  • John J.
    Youtube recommended that original viral video so I wanted to see what that object was as well. Thanks to the group's sleuthing and a few minutes of search I think I'm pretty sure it's this: Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38kuBAsWY-c...
  • John J.
    John J. reacted to Gary C's post in the thread Debunking Humor... with Like Like.
    And we do have to remind ourselves periodically ...
  • Gary C
    Agreed with the caveat that I do not find meteors, re-entering space debris, or the ISS prosaic as we commonly use the word. Those are things I actually enjoy watching for and that may be an additional distinction between believers and myself...
  • Gary C
    That's true, if by "prosaic" you encompass all explanations that follow the known laws of physics and exclude all those that fall into the category of either "supernatural" or "it's aliens, but they probably know how to do things we thought were...
  • Ann K
    That's true, if by "prosaic" you encompass all explanations that follow the known laws of physics and exclude all those that fall into the category of either "supernatural" or "it's aliens, but they probably know how to do things we thought were...
  • Ann K
    Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, e.g. a footprint or a plausible motive, which must then be linked by a logical step (rather than other evidence) to the case being presented. The balance of probabilities is what carries the weight...
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