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You know it’s true because it’s 2020. Remember that whole alien thing back in April? Me neither because about 10 years worth of events has happened in the past
by IgorPartola 6y ago
You know it’s true because it’s 2020. Remember that whole alien thing back in April? Me neither because about 10 years worth of events has happened in the past four and a half months.
- cma 6y agoMost of that alien stuff was miscalculating velocities by not taking into account field of view (zoom in/out) changes in the camera.
- bitcharmer 6y agoAre you referring to the documented cases of UFO sightings by the US navy? AFAIK there were also numerous pilot testimonies and radar logs to prove what was happening. Or is it a different case?
- vinalk 6y agoIt’s fascinating to me that people with zero experience to be in that situation or use the equipment are saying what the pilots saw was wrong. Everyone is an expert on the Internet.
- sandworm101 6y agoIt is equally fascinating to me that people who do not work with aircraft, pilots, ships, radars or aviation in general automatically assume that the pilots are not incorrect. being a military pilot doesn't make one an expert on all aircraft/weather/radar etc. The scope of their expertise is far smaller than popularly believed.
- dang 6y agoI suppose that people were always this way and that the internet has just brought the phenomenon to mass visibility.
- cma 6y agoThe most prominent was from a pilot who had a history of UFO pranks (flying in over campfires silently then turning on afterburners; his story about doing that showed up in an online UFO report contemporaneously with when he described doing it).
- dsaavy 6y agoMick West on YouTube has some pretty good explanations behind the UFO sightings by the US Navy. Here he goes through why the glare rotates while the horizon does not (and recreates the phenomenon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_bX9Hx1H0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_bX9Hx1H0 Here he highlights the relevant gimbal information on the Navy display that explains the "sudden" movements of the UFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ&t=251s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1di0XIa9RQ&t=251s He's a retired developer who is now a science writer and skeptical investigator (just to give you an idea of where his expertise/bias may lie)
- ColanR 6y ago> retired developer who is now a science writer Unless there's some unmentioned specific expertise, that's not a very high bar, relative to what he's trying to discuss.
- dsaavy 6y agoSure it's not a high bar, I just wanted to point out what his background was. I don't want to suggest that you need specific credentials in order to conduct reasonable scientific investigations either. His videos do a decent job of replicating the behavior seen in the UFO videos in a simple way and will give experts in the area a starting point to agree/disagree with his conclusions. Especially with the simple descriptions of the gimbal behavior/limitations in range of motion paired with the data given in the view of the video.
- l33tman 6y agoYeah there were a lot of auxiliary interviews that corroborated the story, going back like for the entire morning with radar operators tracking multiple objects. Still, since it feels absolutely crazy that the navy wouldn't investigate more closely in that situation and then just "leak" 20 seconds of it, suggests that it's some kind of intentional or unintentional hoax..
- rhinoceraptor 6y agoUFOs are just unidentified flying objects. It's pretty hard to identify flying objects when you're moving hundreds of miles per hour, looking at another object moving hundreds of miles per hour, from a distance of miles, and you're looking at it through a camera lens.
- paranoidrobot 6y agoOn this, a Youtube creator Julie Nolke had a fairly popular couple of videos on "Explaining the Pandemic to my past self"[1] in April and a part 2 in June[2]. The first one was hilarious, and I struggle to believe that was only in April. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7capx4Cb8 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyDpP2s-og https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyDpP2s-og
- peterholcomb 6y agoThanks for posting that. That was great.
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- ibejoeb 6y ago"You're gonna wanna pull all your investments..." Markets are rockin'
- ant6n 6y agoNot between Jan and April
- sophacles 6y agoTurns out I needed to see those. Thanks!
- joosters 6y agoA quick recap of 2020: https://imgur.com/gallery/x2o7JOi https://imgur.com/gallery/x2o7JOi "Anything else?" ..."I'm still in January"
- starpilot 6y agoThat's because we are in the cool zone: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkypdg/were-all-living-in-the-cool-zone-now https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkypdg/were-all-living-in...
- aceman22 6y agoI have a theory that 2020 is not any more unusual than other years, but that information dissemination and digestion has become so efficient that it seems like it's a crazy year. Just think about the Beirut explosion without cellphone cameras. Maybe it would have been in newspapers, but because so many people caught it on camera we were able to understand what 4.1 kilos of ammonium nitrate exploding looks like.
- marcosdumay 6y agoWe got a few rare events all happening this year. I mean... Something like the Beirut explosion only happens ever 3 or 4 years. Our current recession is a two or three times in a lifetime. Mass protests in large countries are some 1 in a decade event... And, of course, the US, Russia and China trio threatening to end the world over the Mid-East and China sea happens a few times an year. It's just that they suddenly stopping because they have something more important to care about is a one in a century thing.
- blhack 6y agoIn 2020 the sitting US president was impeached, we saw a massive stock market crash, a global pandemic, the worst civil unrest in the US in 50 years, massive wildfires all over california, and are heading into what will almost definitely be a contested election where we won't know who won the most contentious presidential election in the last century likely far past what the inauguration date is supposed to be. I think this year is worse than most.
- filoleg 6y ago>we saw a massive stock market crash For this one specifically, i don't really agree, because the index is positive year-to-date, sitting at the historical all-time high right now. Doesn't seem like a massive crash to me, given that it dipped not that badly in the first place and then almost instantly recovered.
- bobbean 6y agoSo the market didn't crash this year?