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Considering we all have recording devices now, the most interesting take from my limited perspective is that we have less ghost and ufo sightings than we've eve
by bastardoperator 3y ago
Considering we all have recording devices now, the most interesting take from my limited perspective is that we have less ghost and ufo sightings than we've ever had.
- teddyh 3y ago<https://xkcd.com/1235/ https://xkcd.com/1235/>
- gruez 3y agoAlso, https://xkcd.com/2572/ https://xkcd.com/2572/
- klabb3 3y agoCertainly proves that close encounters were largely bs. But devils advocate, most smartphone cameras have ultra wide lenses and even those with decent zoom perform really poorly, due to shaking, upscaling and awful autofocus. Remember the “super zoom” smartphone that was marketed to take good photos of the moon, but they just faked (overlaid) the details because the native quality was so crap? And the moon isn’t even that small for the human eye. In fact, there are tons of shitty “ufo” recordings that are useless simply because the quality is so shit. In either case, there is tons of multi-modal sensor data from the Air Force/navy sightings so that’s certainly worth looking into before random people’s smartphones.
- bastardoperator 3y agoAnd people are already debunking the USAF/USN data: https://www.metabunk.org/gimbal/ https://www.metabunk.org/gimbal/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs
- yesco 3y agoIs it even possible to take decent photos of a potential UFO without a special camera? Whenever I point my phone at the sky the quality is terrible.
- gruez 3y agoThere are definitely super-high end phones where the telephoto lens can see better than the naked human eye[1]. The average person might not be in possession of such phones, but the technology is definitely there. [1] https://www.dxomark.com/samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-camera-test/ https://www.dxomark.com/samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-camera-test... scroll to "tele" section.
- bastardoperator 3y agoI seem to remember a lot of these encounters and or alien abductions taking place at night and the UFO being illuminated.
- pawelduda 3y agoAliens wanted to make their spacecrafts go viral but people kept recording shaky, blurry low-res videos so they got tired and went to different civilizations with better filming skills and gear
- monkeynotes 3y agoExcept for the military sensors which seem to be reporting more than we've ever seen before.
- I_am_tiberius 3y agoWe have a lion in Berlin though.
- cassianoleal 3y agoLioness. But actually a boar.
- I_am_tiberius 3y agoSorry, gendering isn't my strongest suit yet. However, it's much more manageable in English than it is in German.
- cassianoleal 3y agoThat's cool, the correction was minor. The main point was that the lioness was, in fact, a boar. Boars are not an uncommon sight in certain parts of Berlin. Reality was a lot less strange than what the alert and subsequent news initially made it seem.
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