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Post by Data Cable on Dec 13, 2011 19:29:23 GMT -4
X-files [...] the series The Lone Gunman [...] TV / movies mission impossible [...] 1973 movie Executive Action How on the Flying Spaghetti Monster's Green Earth do details from fiction bolster your case about what happened out here in reality?
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Post by Data Cable on Dec 2, 2011 14:46:17 GMT -4
Can you use digital techniques to convert old black and white pictures to this? I suggest you direct such inquiries to Ted Turner. I do like that you can see the fundamental issue with this technique even in these posed shots; look at the water and some of the children in the later pictures. Right, as with Apollo color TV, anything which moves in the scene screws up the color registration. Shot #33 is interesting, though. It seems perfectly registered in the middle, but not so at the edges. I had initially thought this might be genuine chromatic aberration rearing its ugly, multi-colored head, even through multiple filtered exposures. But, after splitting the channels and comparing them individually, it appears that the red filter somehow introduced some pincushion distortion to that particular exposure, as the green and blue appear perfectly registered throughout the frame. And while some of the children in shot #27 clearly weren't holding still (especially that toddler on the left), much of the color error, particularly the ridgeline and background buildings, appears to be the fault of a badly mutilated blue exposure.
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 18, 2011 0:55:58 GMT -4
what has happened here, in my opinion, the dirt that was used for the set has various agglomerates in it, (clumps of dirt) you can see them all over the surface, some so large you could call them pebbles or small rocks. when stepped on the agglomerate breaks apart to form a uniform surface. the rock disappears. And this proves a "staged" scene exactly how?
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 17, 2011 23:28:13 GMT -4
Actually, I am incredibly grateful that flying cars never came about.
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 16, 2011 0:04:11 GMT -4
I think the original Battlestar Galactica was the worst for fighter-jets-in-space flight dynamics. Especially since they perpetually re-cycled the same 5 or 6 stock viper and raider shots.
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 14, 2011 1:16:20 GMT -4
Like the combination of your avatar and tag line, by the way. Consider that seconded, AG.
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 12, 2011 20:29:24 GMT -4
Concerning the speed that the terrain passes by in MAG 1122 D. Why dosen't the terrain pass by at the same rate? Why does the rate of the passing terrain seem to have 3 speeds of movement? Without actually having seen the footage to which you refer, two possibilities immediately spring to mind: Was the spacecraft at the same altitude in all three instances? Was the focal length ("zoom" level) of the camera the same in all three instances?
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 12, 2011 20:22:03 GMT -4
Even if it took 3 seconds for the lander to go from 3 feet to land and engine turned off. Actually, that's what those 3-foot long probes extending downward from the footpads were for, to indicate when the engine was to be turned off, before the footpads made contact with the lunar surface.
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 12, 2011 14:49:24 GMT -4
Mr debunker please don't say static electricity, because it is only fast movement, which would cause air flow to move flag. And what about all the times an astronaut moves past a flag and it doesn't budge? What is absurd about them? How do you propose to obstruct the brightly-lit lunar surface all around an astronaut long enough for their eyes to dark-adapt? Astronauts were not there to have fun, they were there to do a job, and a very costly job at that. They could not afford to stand around literally staring off into space. But if it was all faked, what would be the point in saying they couldn't see the stars? Just say, "Yeah, they were brighter than any stars I'd ever seen," and avoid the whole counter-intuition trap in the first place. With no air between the rocket nozzle and legs to conduct or convect heat, by what other mechanism do you propose the transference took place? Where is your "5000 degree" measurement taken, in the combustion chamber? What happens to the temperature of a hot gas when it is released into a vacuum?
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Post by Data Cable on Oct 16, 2011 17:01:04 GMT -4
Now all our prisons use mobile phone jamming technology. I think gwiz was insinuating that those smuggled phones had already been "jammed," rather un-technologically.
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Post by Data Cable on Sept 17, 2011 0:54:47 GMT -4
Personally I'd like to see the Skylon fly. Is it irrationally paranoid to be nervous about any project which sounds like a portmanteau of "Skynet" and "Cylon?"
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Post by Data Cable on Aug 23, 2011 11:37:23 GMT -4
"If Jarrah picks up a rock from the moon to analyse in a lab and then send up a probe to the moon to kick up plumes of dust for analysis via radio telescope, he expects to find the same chemical signatures and mineralogy." This betrays the fallacious expectation of a (literally) monolithic lunar surface.
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Post by Data Cable on Aug 11, 2011 1:20:56 GMT -4
The images come from google images. I cannot control their size... You can, however, post a simple text link to the photo in question. For that matter, if it isn't considered "bandwidth theft" to inline-post images from Google's thumbnail cache [determination, LO?], you could post a thumbnailed link, using the following UBB code: [url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11pan1093226HR.jpg] [img]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUshihiFKoKqfKE9PmS3uaQQGK2lPPy4hYdCjml4VQRBJmIZrE[/img] [/url]
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Post by Data Cable on Aug 11, 2011 0:59:15 GMT -4
Ex: I will not slow down from my ~1.6 km/s (~ 3500 mph) speed when I get closer to the Moon's surface Wouldn't it, in fact, speed up?
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Post by Data Cable on Aug 10, 2011 1:07:48 GMT -4
Pfft. That chart is clearly made up. Temperature, like color, is subjective. We can't measure the temperature, only give vague personal impressions of it.
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