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<A title=avantguardian2020@yahoo.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 07, 2005 11:38
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [extropy-chat] UFO on
satellite photo.<BR><BR>--- Gina Miller <<A
href="mailto:nanogirl@halcyon.com">nanogirl@halcyon.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>> I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to curb a<BR>>
moment of boredom. I did this for fun, perhaps to<BR>> get you all to smile
(thought Spike would like this<BR>> humor!), and mainly to see if I could
reproduce the<BR>> image, not to speculate one way or another. And,
as<BR>> you have already established, I would never, ever<BR>> upload to
a site where I do not have authorization<BR>> to do so. Just an
incorrigible artist here, but<BR>> that's all! : )<BR><BR>No
worries, Gina. You did get a smile out of me and I<BR>KNOW you wouldn't do any
unauthorized uploading,<BR>except maybe to save the world or something. ;)
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#800080>Now I'm smiling.... that's
very kind.</FONT> </FONT><BR> <BR>> Honestly this thing could be
anything, I'm not up on<BR>> my satellite engineering, lenses or software -
but I<BR>> could easily imagine that if it wasn't something<BR>> legit
in the air, it could be any number of these<BR>> things interacting with or
leaving an artifact on<BR>> the photo. <BR>> Here are two super close
ups for you:<BR>> Original:<BR>> <A
href="http://www.nanogirl.com/images/satellitetheirs.jpg">http://www.nanogirl.com/images/satellitetheirs.jpg</A><BR>>
Mine:<BR>> <A
href="http://www.nanogirl.com/images/satellitemine.jpg">http://www.nanogirl.com/images/satellitemine.jpg</A><BR>>
You can see the original is more blue and you can<BR>> tell in my pixels
that the image has been blurred. <BR><BR> Thanks,
Gina. Your analysis was actually very<BR>good and thorough. At the very least
you established<BR>that it was not an obvious hoax. It may be one of
the<BR>artifacts you suggested. If it actually was something<BR>in the air, it
would seem to be very reflective as the<BR>blue tint you speak of could very
well be a reflection<BR>of the sky from high altitude (i.e. the gradient
of<BR>the blue of the sky to the black of space). </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800080 size=2>Right, that's a good
point.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Although weather balloons are made of mylar which is rather<BR>reflective
we have already established that weather<BR>balloons are typically a mere 2
feet in diameter.<BR> Furthermore the blurriness, if
caused by motion,<BR>would suggest that it was moving fairly
quickly<BR>relative to the plane or satelite, since I imagine a<BR>fairly high
shutter speed would be necessary to keep<BR>ground images from being too
blurred from orbital or<BR>even airplane speeds. The blur also seems to be
along<BR>the northwest-southeast axis, which would be odd for a<BR>high
altitude weather balloon in the region of Palm<BR>Beach, FL. Since that is
below 30 degrees latitude,<BR>the prevailing trade winds would be the North
Easterly<BR>Trades which blow from the NE to the SW. Curious.<BR>Maybe it is
just a drop of water on the camera lens.<BR>Then again it could be a scout
ship sent by Elohim.<BR>Somebody wake up Rael. :) <BR><BR>The
Avantguardian <BR>is <BR>Stuart LaForge<BR>alt email:
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is that they haven't attempted to contact us." <BR>-Bill
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