David Meadows
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Where are all the UFO photos?
In the 60s and 70s, there were regular UFO sightings. Folks were popping out of the woodwork, to describe the UFOs they ahd seen. Not just crazy people but reliable witnesses like teachers and doctors and churchmen.
Most of these stories had no physical evidence to back them up. There were a few UFO photos but not many -- which is understandable really. Not many people routinely carried a camera around with them just on the off-chance they might get a UFO photo-op.
Now, however, we all carry cameras. Almost every person in the Western World -- adults and children -- carry cameras in their pockets everywhere they go, 24/7, 365 days a year.
So where are all the UFO photos that should have been taken in the last few years? Did UFOs stop visiting as soon as we all got cameras? Are they shy?
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1/26/2010, 3:21 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Maybe the existence of Photoshop and its ilk have made this kind of evidence moot?
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1/26/2010, 3:46 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
A good point, Meadows!
To play devil's advocate, I should point out that most cell phone cameras (the ones most likely to be carried regularly) work poorly in the low-light and long-distance situations that a UFO would imply. So possibly there have been thousands of pictures taken of perceived UFOs, but none of them have shown anything clearly.
Of course, there is the OTHER alternative, which I favor!
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1/26/2010, 5:37 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
quote: Reythia wrote:
Of course, there is the OTHER alternative, which I favor!
What that the goverment has set up an extremely effective orbital defense mechanism such that UFO's simply don't make it into the atmosphere anymore?
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1/26/2010, 9:56 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
That would be awesome! I say this as an aerospace engineer. If such a thing existed, finding jobs would be a LOT easier. Alas, it is not so!
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1/27/2010, 5:00 pm
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David Meadows
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Y-e-s-s.
Obviously you would say that. You're clearly one of them
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1/27/2010, 8:25 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Or perhaps they simply got bored with humanities slow progress and have not come back.
To be honest, with some of the great minds we've had, I'm almost ashamed that we have not gotten further into space than we have!
I just hope I live long enough to see a real alien race land on our planet......
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1/27/2010, 10:07 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Eh, technological development can be odd. So it's quite possible that in the next few decades we'll suddenly start proliferating in space... or not, it's hard to be entirely sure. Though I give it fair chances myself.
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1/27/2010, 10:36 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Maybe the Men in Black are getting better...
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1/28/2010, 12:08 am
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
I'm lucky enough to be living less than 40 miles from the New Spaceport America , so who knows, maybe that barrier will get broken sooner than later..
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1/28/2010, 4:43 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
My sister has a picture of a UFO...okay, okay it's just a UFO shaped cloud. But still, who knows...
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1/28/2010, 5:23 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
quote: Queenyforever wrote:
To be honest, with some of the great minds we've had, I'm almost ashamed that we have not gotten further into space than we have!
*shrug* It's largely a matter of money. The ideas are there, the technology is there, but since neither has been tried, the cost to actually USE them the first time is high. And since we haven't done it yet, that *obviously* implies that we can't, right? *sigh* No, no, not really. *grumble*
quote: Obviously you would say that. You're clearly one of them
No, no, Meadows. I'm not one of *them*. I'm just a dragon-loving goddess. Get it straight!
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1/28/2010, 6:54 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
I'm kind of hoping SpaceX will come through with its prices really, that would be a big step forward in lower cost space access.
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1/28/2010, 7:21 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
If we ever get back to true manned space exploration it will have to wait on a country, group of countries, or company (like Space-X) to carry the load. Once again the USA appears to be stopping development of the technologies needed by NASA in this years Presidential budget proposal (link to bad news).
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1/31/2010, 1:37 am
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Maybe their military will experiment with some UFOs instead?
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1/31/2010, 10:04 am
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Hi all, good to see I'm not alone....haha
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1/31/2010, 2:39 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
HI YA B......you are never alone!
quote: Once again the USA appears to be stopping development of the technologies needed by NASA in this years Presidential budget proposal (link to bad news).
Typical......but Richard Branson and Virgin Airways is private. Sure he's not going very far, but once one person has the vision and the means.....others will follow. Once the "break" away from the Old boys club at NASA is complete, it won't be long before other great thinkers and doer's come out of the woodwork....
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
I really wish that someone will pick up the project. I so want to watch an Earthrise from the Moon.
It's too bad that our world cannot agree on a common space program. If all countries would pitch in, it should be affordable ...
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The problem isn't so much NASA being an old boys network, but from what I've been hearing lately, that it's a way to get jobs to your state. As such it is claimed it is more of a political play thing which doesn't get to do things very efficiently anymore... well that and the management is consistently said to be not to great...
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2/1/2010, 9:16 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
Exactly.
Oh, don't get me wrong, there's too much bureaucracy at NASA, that's definitely true. And just like anywhere, that does drive up costs and slow things down some.
But that's not really the major problem with why the manned space program is stuck. The problem is that manned missions (and even some robotic ones) take a long time to plan. Vehicle and hardware design and trajectory analysis are only part of the problem. More importantly, these things need to be decided BEFORE the training of qualified personnel begins. Even at the breakneck pace of the spacerace, it took nearly a decade to land on the moon. If we want to both do more than that (which we ought) and do so more safely (which seems the way things are headed), then it's simply a fact that planning a manned space mission will take at LEAST as long and probably longer. Going to Mars, rather than just the moon, would be an even longer process.
It's not a matter of NASA not being able to do these things. NASA can. But they need a decade or longer of time and money dedicated to a SINGLE, UNCHANGING goal. Right now, that goal changes dramatically with each president, and often even within a single administration's term. So what happens is NASA gets 3 years into a 15-year project... and then is ordered to stop. The workers are disbanded, spread onto other, often unrelated topics. Plans get lost, or become outdated. Key people retire or move into the business world out of frustration. Others forget the details of what they'd done. So 4-8 years later, when the next president decides he wants to do the same task, the planning needs to start almost from square one.
Very simply, while NASA is appropriately funded by the government, due to its national nature, it should not be directed by the government. At least not in such detail. A space mission cannot be designed on a political schedule. That, more than anything else, is what's killing the manned space program.
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2/2/2010, 8:38 pm
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Re: Where are all the UFO photos?
And deleted a rambling post by some conspiracy crazed person, or a troll.
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On second thought...Banned.
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