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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: TR on November 17, 2011, 15:51

Title: Bright Light**
Post by: TR on November 17, 2011, 15:51
Posted this an another forum, thought you would like to discuss  :o:

taken on my camera phone the bright light was going very fast against the wind so a chinese lantern is out of the question no noise as you can hear the church bells in the back ground, clouds were going in the opposite direction with the wind...and I had'nt had a drink  :laugh:  no ground to see as its a flat as a pancake round our neck of the woods...unexplainable  ???


 Bright Lights  (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v489/hook7/?action=view&current=video-2011-08-17-20-54-50-1.mp4)
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Rik on November 17, 2011, 17:45
Navigation light from a plane, Terry?
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: TR on November 17, 2011, 18:22
Not a plane Rik...that night was very low cloud and not a hint of noise as you can hear the church bells in the back ground plus not port or starboard lights.
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Rik on November 17, 2011, 18:27
I've seen planes pass over here which have managed to only show the one light, Terry, and whose noise has not reached the ground - sound can do strange things if the atmospheric conditions are right. I'm just taking a stab in the dark, though.
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Clive on November 17, 2011, 18:29
My money is on Chinese Lantern Terry.  I've seen them zip by at relativistic speeds when the wind catches them.  The wind speed and direction at a height of a few hundred feet can be very different to that on the ground.   8-)
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: TR on November 17, 2011, 20:45
Clouds traveling east ..wind on ground heading east

PS what is relativistic  :)
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Simon on November 17, 2011, 22:08
No one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us...

:)x
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Clive on November 17, 2011, 22:41
Clouds traveling east ..wind on ground heading east

PS what is relativistic  :)

Near light speed.   :o:

No one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us...

:)x


 :smirks:
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: daveeb on November 18, 2011, 17:00
No one would have believed, in the first years of the 21st century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us...

:)x


Fantastic that Simon, they should make a film out of the idea  :)x
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Rik on November 18, 2011, 17:14
 :laugh:
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Simon on November 18, 2011, 18:56
 ;D
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Clive on November 18, 2011, 20:35
Fantastic that Simon, they should make a film out of the idea  :)x

It was my first date with Mrs Clive.  What an omen.   :)x
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Simon on November 18, 2011, 20:46
Obviously a good one for you, but I'm sure she could have done better.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Clive on November 18, 2011, 20:50
That's exactly what her parents said!   ;D
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: daveeb on November 18, 2011, 22:38
It was my first date with Mrs Clive.  What an omen.   :)x

And how is cousin Damien doing  :devil:
Title: Re: Bright Light**
Post by: Clive on November 18, 2011, 22:52
 ;D ;D ;D  I should add that the other film was Psycho.  Value for money in those days!