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NASA probes 'electric zap' mystery photo:Former astronaut wowed by photo
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| February 5, 2003
| Joe Kovacs
Posted on 02/05/2003 6:50:15 PM PST by gitmo
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To: Timesink
INTERESTING......
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posted on
02/05/2003 9:16:02 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
To: gitmo
Bump for later contemplation
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posted on
02/05/2003 9:17:04 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(The friendship of the French is like their wine, exquisite, but of short duration.)
To: TXnMA
This obviously was a film-based (not digital) camera.No, it's not obvious at all. You can take flash memory cards to the supermarket and get prints made just like with old-fashioned film.
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posted on
02/05/2003 9:17:08 PM PST
by
Timesink
(My name's Harley Earl. And I've come back to build you a great tampon.)
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To: DAnconia55; Poohbah
Or it could just be nature throwing the dice and coming up you lose....Or...it could be a natural phenomena that occurs during re-entry that has little or no effect on the shuttle and simply has never been observed before.
To: Timesink
The
photographer himself said:"
on the film when I developed it".
Are you calling that individual an idiot or a liar -- just to support some wacko theory of your own? Anyone who uses a top-of-the line Nikon (I have three) knows the difference between "film" and "digital data".
Go wear your tinfoil hat somewhere else...
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posted on
02/05/2003 9:36:11 PM PST
by
TXnMA
((No Longer!!!))
To: Timesink
Why was that STS-109 if this was STS-107?
(Raising hand) Oh! Oh! I know the answer to that one!
See here.
To: 6ppc
To: Richard Kimball
It should have been daylight going over California, so the long exposure time doesn't make much sense to me. It was still dark in AZ when the Shuttle passed over. Some kids took a video that was of black sky as it approached from the west and light as it disappeared on the eastern horizon. So it was still dark in CA when it went over.
To: lonevoice
Interesting developments bump
To: ganeshpuri89
Can't seem to get a link here, but if you will go to NASA's home page and put "freestar" into the search window, you will be able to read about the experiments which included the video of the lightening sprites which yielded the unexpected bonus of the "red arc" noted in news stories reprinted on previous posts.
The reason I keep mentioning the Columbia patch was that the portion of the patch which represented "Operation Freestar" had a red arc of light which seemed to curve around the earth.... truly odd, since the arc of red light that was captured on video by the crew ...and as noted by one of Israel's foremost physicists...had never been seen before, and was reason for a great deal of scientific excitement as to what this finding would eventually reveal.
The reason Art Bell keeps appearing is that any time there is mention of conspiracy or oddness, Art Bell (now retired, his radio show now hosted by George Noory) is sort of the "catch-all" like mentioning "the grassy knoll..."
The reason I referred to the news story was prompted by the irony of the "electrtical/ plasma-like discharge...." surrounding the shuttle which allegedly appears on the photos taken Saturday in CA.
It just seems that when there is TOO much coincidence there is no longer a coincidence....and when it comes to this shuttle that is EXACTLY what is building....a bit like static cling.....
The patch has that same sense of deja vu (view) like artist renderings for book covers and cds revealing the fate of the World Trade Center years in advance of the event. It's just odd that such a rendering as shown on a patch would THEN appear on camera in front of the shuttle crew.
Then, during what should have been a normal return, another odd electrical flash-like anamoly shows up on a picture taken of the shuttle... it's description not unlike another Hubble photo available on the NASA site of a purple dwarf?
Clearly, there is more here than perhaps we will ever imagine, much less understand.
By the way, Operation Freestar" was the name for a group of experiments which was a payload "piggyback" on the shuttle through the Goddard Space Center. You were asking about the calibration of the cameras used, and all of that and additional information on some incredible equipment (lost with the shuttle) and seven extraordinary souls ("not lost but safely at home") can be found on NASA's site.
Hope that helps.
To: TXnMA
The photographer himself said:"on the film when I developed it". Are you calling that individual an idiot or a liar -- just to support some wacko theory of your own? Anyone who uses a top-of-the line Nikon (I have three) knows the difference between "film" and "digital data". Go wear your tinfoil hat somewhere else...Okay, hot shot, show us "tinfoilers" where the FILM goes in this puppy:
We're waiting.
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posted on
02/05/2003 10:09:22 PM PST
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Timesink
(My name's Harley Earl. And I've come back to build you a great tampon.)
To: isthisnickcool
(Raising hand) Oh! Oh! I know the answer to that one!Ahhh. Cool. Merci.
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posted on
02/05/2003 10:11:07 PM PST
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Timesink
(My name's Harley Earl. And I've come back to build you a great tampon.)
To: Timesink
Well... I suppose that if one were to remove the memory... Does the film have to be any good after I get it in there? And is that tag line really necessary??
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posted on
02/05/2003 10:16:15 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Jøin the Cøälition tø Prevent Unnecessärily Verbøse änd Nønsensicäl Täg Lines, eh)
Comment #115 Removed by Moderator
To: ganeshpuri89
Nevada....Parumph..... Great show.
To: Timesink
From the original post (#1):
Late yesterday, the space agency sent Jernigan a former shuttle flyer and now manager at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories to the astronomer's home to view the image, and have the Nikon camera brought to Houston today.
and...
"I couldn't see the discharge with my own eyes, but it showed up clear and bright on the film when I developed it," the photographer previously said.
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Show us proof that the "Nikon camera" camera used (and taken by Jernigan to NASA Houston) is the model you pictured.
Personally, I'll believe the photographer knew what he was talking about when he said,
"FILM"
End of discussion.
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posted on
02/05/2003 10:41:50 PM PST
by
TXnMA
((No Longer!!!))
To: TigersEye
It was still dark in AZ when the Shuttle passed over. Thanks for that info. IF the camera was the Coolpix 880 that has been mentioned elsewhere on this thread, I would discount anything taken with it under those circumstances. There's conflicting information on the thread, as some have posted what was definitely a digital camera, but the terms he used to describe the processing wouldn't logically be used by a digital photographer.
My guess, IF it is the CP 880, is that something light, such as a star, was in the frame, and moved around as the camera shook. Even though he used a tripod, most CP 880 users aren't going to use a shutter cable, and the act of pushing the shutter button would be enough to cause serious shake at that distance. In any event, with that camera, exposures of that length are notoriously grainy.
Not to diss the astronaut who saw the photos, but there's no indication she's done very much in photography in her bio (sounds awfully smart, though), and as much as I've worked with digital, I can usually spot why something happened. The Art Bell photos are the biggest hoot in the world. I checked the "ghost" section one time, and nearly half of the ghosts were cigarette smoke from a guy holding his cig while he took the photo. Most of the rest were obvious double exposures, light getting into the camera box on the edge of the film, and a few very obvious and very fake Photoshop jobs.
Of course, I haven't seen this photo, and am operating on the premise that it was the CP880, which I don't think has been confirmed yet. However, I think most of the laser-weapon and other talk is a little premature. My best guess is camera-shake combined with a bright spot that made impressions on the media (film or digital) more quickly than the darker images. Way to test is to look for light ghosting on the shuttle itself. It won't show as much, if it was darker, as it would take longer to register on the media, but it should still be there. I suspect the most obvious explanation now. I'll look at lasers from China if the first hypothesis is proven wrong.
BTW, yes I really do take photos. Here's one of mine
Nothing to do with the rest of the thread, but I took it last Sunday and was looking for an excuse to post it. ;o>
Comment #119 Removed by Moderator
To: TXnMA
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02/05/2003 10:55:08 PM PST
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Timesink
(My name's Harley Earl. And I've come back to build you a great tampon.)
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