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If you are British, you will recognise my italics. It is perfectly acceptable for any member of the public to be ignorant of some unusual phenomenon. It would
by mikhailfranco 6y ago
If you are British, you will recognise my italics.
It is perfectly acceptable for any member of the public to be ignorant of some unusual phenomenon. It would be fine if this was a blog from the walker who took the photo. But it is not acceptable for a professional 'journalist': either they are a 'science correspondent' and they should know the answer; or they are temp-ing in the science department, and should ask an expert, or at least find 5 minutes from their busy day to google the explanation.
Then again, most 'journalists' these days seem to be employed by the 'social media' department.
- danbruc 6y agoI am not an expert but according to Wikipedia this is a superior mirage just as the article says but not a Fata Morgana [2] which is a subclass of superior mirage that has multiple stacked images. So the uneducated author got it right after all. ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
- mikhailfranco 6y agoYour 5 minutes of googling is already more informative than the article. Did the article say it was not a 'fata morgana'? No. How long did the effect last? We don't know. Did the ship image move, or disappear, or return to the horizon? We don't know. Were there multiple images? We don't know. Did he take just one photo? We don't know...