Tekne posted:

you're all off base

that's clearly a picture of a demon summoned by all your posts about unholy phenomena

CaptainViolence posted:

setting up my long exposure camera tonight to catch proof of me in up in that beelzebutthole

PawParole posted:

weird how birds can flash lights nowadays.

evolution is amazing!

Smekerman posted:

PS: I encourage everyone to look up long exposure plane photos, so you can see exactly what that doesn’t look like.

Bilirubin posted:

correct

because birds aren't real

Bilirubin posted:

shameful snype edit but you beat the notification so I'll allow it

WEH posted:

???

Delta-Wye posted:

ive been digging a theme amongst the stories about consciousness being another fundamental field, one we weakly interact with. it fills in some personal blanks in my lived experience i don't have any other answers for.

I'd love to hear more about what happened, it's very in line with su walker's shtick and i love it. similar to but much friendlier than the ttsa equivalent.

Wheeee posted:

yea I've been wondering if Elizondo's tossing all this extremely woo-sounding poo poo around to muddy the waters for some reason

aliens or no aliens this is an op, he's not talking about wild fringe ideas because he's trying to drum up book sales or keep his role on Ancient Aliens

Bullfrog posted:

while we're all taking pics of the night sky, i got this pretty decent moon pic with binoculars and my lovely cracked motorola.

idk what the line is but probably because i was having a hell of a time keeping it steady and there were power lines around

Smekerman posted:

Just wanna chime in about that 10 second exposure - your ideas of how a plane would look in any long exposure shot are flawed. There would be no dot, at any shutter speed slower than maybe a quarter of a second. Also, there would be no streaks except the lights, because the body of a plane would be too dark to make any impression on the camera sensor.

That dot also looks like it has a bit of a halo around it which means the color is clipped because its light hit the same spot on the sensor for 10 seconds.

Basically, that object is stationary imho.

WEH posted:

Do me a favor and do a google image search for "plane long exposure". The magical device known as a "tripod" allows for sharp shots of lights in motion at slow shutter speeds and the reason the dots show up is because they are very bright for a very short amount of time.

e: changed "objects" to lights

munce posted:

2:32 he maintains his DoD contacts and this effort is about helping the government do the job it's supposed to do and it's a coordinated effort.

2:35 the interviewer basically asks him if he has a government handler. Lue says they contact him frequently "I get texts all the time" regarding keeping within certain parameters with what he's saying from "the man" aka the government. Lue is basically saying he has a government handler.

33:50 - interviewer asks "have you been warned by the govt to not discuss specific things" 33:14 - 34:30 lue basically says yes he has been warned by government affiliates (handlers) and he has to report regularly to security advisors.

fanfic insert posted:

It being a plane doesnt vibe with me.

WEH posted:

The exposure time makes or breaks it for me. If it's 10 seconds, I got nothing. 5 or less I think it's a plane + its navigation lights going off twice.

Objurium posted:

Confirmed the exposure time with her again as 10 seconds - I'll see if I can pull up flight logs for the area a bit later on too.

WEH posted:

I have no idea, then

WEH posted:

???

valp posted:

By the way, Elizondo says a lot of crazy stuff in podcasts. He says there was ancient alien contact, that souls are real, psychic powers are real, aliens walk among us, some aliens aren't limited by time, consciousness is an observable energy, and so on.

Azathoth posted:

I believe 3, possibly 4 of those things, depending on the definition of "ancient" and whether he's referring to racist af Chariots of the Gods? bullshit

Smekerman posted:

You're comparing full sized pictures (well, one picture, the Alamy thing is an illustration from the looks of it) to a 100% crop. Zoom in all the way on the dots in your picture and I'm willing to bet they're still not circular points, they are elongated in the direction the plane/whatever was moving in.

WEH posted:

fanfic insert posted:

Yeee, I'm not arguing I'm just sayin

Heated Gaming Moment posted:

Can someone summarize the first couple hundred pages of this thread?

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

please list the 3 or 4 things of those you believe

Heated Gaming Moment posted:

Can someone summarize the first couple hundred pages of this thread?

Heated Gaming Moment posted:

Can someone summarize the first couple hundred pages of this thread?

space chandeliers posted:

EVERY GOLDEN HOUR I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM THE SHUTTER BUTTON ON MY CANON DSLR. ITS AN EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT WITH AN OPTEKA 500MM MIRROR LENS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE LONG SHUTTER SPEEDS OF UFOS ALONGSIDE WITH FROKNOWSPHOTO, JARED POLIN. I DO EVERY EXPOSURE AND I DO EVERY EXPOSURE HARD. MAKIN CLICKY SOUNDS WHEN I'M SHOOTING BULB MODE ON SOME ALIEN BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP AND MACHINE GUN THEM ON CONTINUOUS SHOOTING MODE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY CAPTURED THE GALAXY’S MOST NON-REFLECTIVE METAMATERIAL. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE ON THE FORUMS I POST AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE ON DEPRECATED COMEDY SITES CAN STILL BE SKEPTICAL JERKS. AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO USE MIRROR LOCK UP AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY HANGING ALL MY PRINTS. 2 HOURS INCLUDING POST PROCESSING EVERY MORNIng. THEN I LIFT

i am harry posted:

might want to look into synchronicity.

quote:

Keywords: volition, Libet, free will, introspection, decision-making
Introduction
We have the strong and intuitive conviction that we can make decisions and actions according to our own reflections, preferences, beliefs, and feelings. In other words, we take it for granted that the content of our consciousness somehow influences our decisions and actions. However, this assumption has been seriously challenged by a seminal study of Benjamin Libet published in the eighties (Libet et al., 1983). Healthy human participants had to make repeated, self-paced finger movements while their brain activity was recorded with EEG. In addition, they were asked to watch a rapidly rotating clock and to report, after each movement, the clock hand position at the moment they had consciously “felt the urge to move.” It was found that a so-called Bereitschaftspotential (BP), a brain potential related to voluntary movements, starts several hundred milliseconds before the participants reported to be conscious about their decision to move. This result, which has been reproduced and extended by independent groups (Haggard and Eimer, 1999; Soon et al., 2008; Fried et al., 2011; Rigoni et al., 2013a), seems to indicate that consciousness about a movement decision arises only after the decision has been made by unconscious neural processes.

The study and its replications have had massive impact on current concepts of volition and continue to be used as one of the main arguments against the existence of a freedom to choose. It seems to demonstrate that our actions are determined by unconscious neural processes whereas consciousness is merely a late byproduct of neural processing with no influence on its own. Interestingly, this conclusion may have negative consequences for our conceptions of freedom and responsibility and hence for the functioning of society. Indeed, studies have demonstrated that healthy volunteers reading texts coming to such conclusions immediately have a greater tendency to cheat (Vohs and Schooler, 2008), are more likely to conform to group norms (Alquist et al., 2013), and show reduced social behavior (Baumeister et al., 2009), weakened self-control (Rigoni et al., 2012), impaired cognitive reactions to errors (Rigoni et al., 2013b), as well as reduced BPs (Rigoni et al., 2011). (ed: sound familiar? lmao!)

However, a growing body of evidence suggests that the relationship between neural activity and conscious awareness is more complicated than previously thought, and other conclusions can be drawn. In this paper, we review the markers that have been used to determine the onset of consciousness on the one hand and the onset of brain processes for movement preparation on the other hand, and consider whether they are valid and adequate.