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Yet another UFO sighting?

Ever wonder why such bizarre theory only appears on stupid internet blog and yellow journalist paper journal ? because most serious news have long understood the concept of JPEG (or in general image) artefact while making a picture zoom. Those zozo at huffington post apprently don't.

ETA: and if you examine the nearby feature you quite clearly see they are zooming near or even past the picture resolution too.

ETAETA: well they aren't so dumb but it msut be slow news days to even bring it up "He concludes that artifacts often result when the software can't perfectly match the image." not **** sherlock.
 
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It`s entertaining, if nothing else, to read stuff like this. You read and wonder. .
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There was this old lady i used to know. I`d go inside her house, and there she`d be...sitting with her tv tray in front of her, with her cup of coffee on it...and a Weekly World News. The cover showing and saying something eye-opening, like the face on Mars...which was kind of an interesting anomally. But they`d also have headline articles on how...gol, i wish i could remember some of the prize winners...stuff like i think Elvis being spotted on the moon.
And there`d she`d be, reading this stuff like she was reading the morning paper.
And i wondered what she thought, reading some...well, actually all...of the stuff in that tabloid.
Oh. And she used to be our local librarian btw. .
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I just started laughing right now. Laughing at a new generation of people...picking up the Huffington Post, sitting down with their coffee.................
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But hey, maybe its real. Maybe there are aliens setting up ready to attack us.
Maybe its Jesus, getting all ready for his curtain call, for the Rapture. Lol. I love this stuff.
 
Newbeak said:
I wonder if there is a way to confirm whether of not an anomalous object has actually been spotted on the moon?
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If only someone could invent some kind of device for looking at things a long way away. We could call it a "far-seer". Or maybe something Greek would sound more appropriate.
 
:rolleyes: Yep...Anyone would know that Aliens prefer the dark side of the Moon...The Real Estate is really cheap over there ,as opposed to the light side which is inhabited by space junk from the Earth Space Agencies..... Also, you don't want light reflecting off your spaceship , and cause a flap.....!:D:D:D
 
EHocking said:
Or indeed Dutch.
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I was just going with the name rather than the actual origin. Although I admit "Dutch perspective glass" has a nice ring to it as well. Hmm, according to Google that would be "Dutch gyalí prooptikí̱" in Greek. I think I may start referring to telescopes gyaliproops.
 
Veering slightly OT here, but...I think that if moon-base (or moon-landing hoax) believers, 9/11 CTers, birthers, etc., would be just a little more careful with the way they throw around the word "anomaly," they'd look (and perhaps be) a little less ridiculous (not directed at you, Newbeak- you used the word correctly in your OP, I think). "Anomaly" does not mean "wow, that looks weird to me!"; it means "departure from a correctly formed basis of expectations." You need a sample size of more than just one to identify an anomaly.

In this case, at least, HuffPo seems to have understood this (you have to be careful with HufffPo- they can be a little woo-ish sometimes); they understood that the basis for the expectation can only be the imaging process, and they compared the "anomaly" against other images, using the same process, of other sites on the Moon. By doing this, they showed that all the artifacts, including the one in question, were ones completely to be expected from the imaging process; the one was no departure from expectations at all, and, so, no anomaly at all. Nothing to see here except what you would expect to see, so move along.
 
Din't noone see the alien spacecraft manuvering under the satellite?
Lower right corner... starting at 1:32.
Can't be a fly in the imager in the satellite!!!
Has to be THEM!
 

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turingtest said:
In this case, at least, HuffPo seems to have understood this (you have to be careful with HufffPo- they can be a little woo-ish sometimes)...
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No doubt. They have some good authors (notably, Kuttner) but one has to look out for the woo (notably, Chopra). It can be a good exercise in critical thinking.
 
Apparently you did not read far enough if you think the article was supporting the alien hypothesis:

So, what exactly are we seeing here?

"I would suspect, from looking at it that [the original] object is a stitching artifact from Google Moon," said Marc Dantonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.

"A stitching artifact is a photographic anomaly that occurs due to the process by which many photos are aligned and put together to make a large photo mosaic. Google Moon, Google Earth, Google Mars, as well as Google Sky, for that matter, are all composed of tens of thousands of images that are aligned as best as possible with each other and draped over a spherical 'planet,' be it Earth or the moon, for instance," Dantonio told HuffPost via email.
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MrBooglemaumau said:
:rolleyes: Yep...Anyone would know that Aliens prefer the dark side of the Moon...The Real Estate is really cheap over there ,as opposed to the light side which is inhabited by space junk from the Earth Space Agencies..... Also, you don't want light reflecting off your spaceship , and cause a flap.....!:D:D:D
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Pedant alert: the "dark" side of the moon can be any side of the moon depending on the sun! It's the far-side of the moon to be correct.

If they were on the side of the moon that could be seen then they would be very easy to spot from earth - and the proponents would have a massive problem with the utter lack of evidence (although that has never stopped them spouting before). However they wouldn't have to deal with heavy bombardment (the far side is peppered with impact craters far more than the near side). It's like setting up a tent in the middle of a firing range.

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A few years ago I saw a TV program about a volcanic eruption in Mexico and out of the top of the erupting volcano there was what appeared to be a classic UFO. I heard someone suggest that the so called UFO was "plasma energy"

The UFO was going into and then out of the volcano and some UFO nut said it was refueling. I haven't seen the video in a long time.

Does anyone else remember seeing this?
 
Cainkane1 said:
A few years ago I saw a TV program about a volcanic eruption in Mexico and out of the top of the erupting volcano there was what appeared to be a classic UFO. I heard someone suggest that the so called UFO was "plasma energy"

The UFO was going into and then out of the volcano and some UFO nut said it was refueling. I haven't seen the video in a long time.

Does anyone else remember seeing this?
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Here's one.
Here's a few more.

The fact that the images are from low-light, time-lapse cameras, not regular motion picture style cameras, could be a clue.
 
Cuddles said:
I was just going with the name rather than the actual origin. Although I admit "Dutch perspective glass" has a nice ring to it as well. Hmm, according to Google that would be "Dutch gyalí prooptikí̱" in Greek. I think I may start referring to telescopes gyaliproops.
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Which brings us back to what, probably the most famous user of the telescope, Galileo, called it - a "perspicillum".





... and realising that telescope comes from the Greek and that I probably walked all over your original joke
 
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