Just on Nasa TV! STS119 Discovery encounters UFO!

Satellites ARENT immune to dust. The same effect occurs around them. The time it will take to disable solar panels and/or accumulate to the point of disabling is long enough that we simply haven't reached that point yet. Most of what we make simply wont last long enough to see that day. The mass and area covered by the ISS are several magnitudes of order larger than any other object we have put in orbit, so the effect of particles is also amplified. Even as a static accumulator, its surface area and mass for storing a charge dwarfs anything else we have up there, so in shear static electomotive charge alone the forces are huge. Now add the effects of solar radiation causing ionization and a buildup of charge on the sunward side, and I wouldn't be surprised to see charged particles doing spirals and cartwheels in the interaction between fields.

You cant just watch the cheato crumbs next to your mouse and apply it as field motion physics in vacuum.

If you took a Vandegraff generator back to the dark ages, you'd be called a warlock for making someones hair stand up.

I'm a shill for knowing some rather basic science in its otherwise absence. It's really all about what you are looking for: Encouragement and support, or answers.


Agreed.

Static will have made the dust move weird... like in the tether vid.

I even watched (with dismay) the UFO Hunters reproduce the same effect. (Thought the floating corneas looked familiar!)

You're no shill.

I've been known... but this principal is soo basic that it is just redunkulous.

OP!! Prove me wrong! I can't watch the video... someone post some pictures!!

But I swear that if it is the stupid cornea lens flare I will call you all FOOLS!!!!!

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static wouldn't just make things bounce. Objects are attracted to opposite fields, and that force would create parabolic path changes. Now add the pact that the fields change quite a bit from second to second and the paths can get VERY complex. The eddy (read up on eddy currnts) currents flowing on the skin of the ISS would also create some serious magnetic fields that would change constantly. You are talking about masses of less than 1000th of a gram floating in a vacuum so the strength needed to affect change are minute and at that scale changes happen constantly. Again, this isnt static from rubbing your feet on the rug. Same principle, but WAY different scale. At any given moment your body has a continuously changing static and magnetic field. Its dwarfed by your phone, the power lines in the room, and mostly by the air around you. If you remove all of that, including the air, then watch the dust react to only these subtle changes, its cool.

There's a reason why we want to put labs in space, you know. Stuff reacts differently up there. You can look at simple things and see much more elegant behavior.

This has actually been done before, by people who wanted to prove if they could be ufo's. its duplicatable. just not interesting to people who need a daily dose of UFO conspiracy.

THIS WILL TAKE CARE OF ALL THE DEBUNKERS

make up your mind shill. first it's ice, then it's lens flare, then its dust and now it a "neat meteor shower". don't you realize, that your statements contradict them selfs?

THANK YOU!!!

I SAW IT LIVE!! MATCH IT UP WITH THIS!!


saw it live too, and recorded it :D

make up your mind shill. first it's ice, then it's lens flare, then its dust and now it a "neat meteor shower". don't you realize, that your statements contradict them selfs?


just give us a break. We try to find a reasonable explanation on these. You dont think there is a fleet of huge ufos out there at least from 1996 on, do you?

make up your mind shill. first it's ice, then it's lens flare, then its dust and now it a "neat meteor shower". don't you realize, that your statements contradict them selfs?


just give us a break. We try to find a reasonable explanation on these. You dont think there is a fleet of huge ufos out there at least from 1996 on, do you?

i'm talking to antisocial. sure go ahead and try to find silly excuses to give your mind some rest and sleep. i don't blame you, most people can't handle that stuff anyway.

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once again, rather basic optics. you are looking at an object who's distance from the observer is measured in nautical miles. The magnification on the camera is rather HUGE. now pass small debris and dust ( a small cloud of which follws the ISS in orbit) and sidelight that with the brightest light we know of ( the sun). The fuzzy patterns and size of the objects are cause by diffraction ( read up on it). You can duplicate this by holding you hand up to a light then making the gap between your fingers as small as possible. You will start to see multiple gaps and multiple lines. As the gap, or the object, approaches a multiple of the wavelength of the light present, it bends slightly when passing the object creating regular appearing fuzzy edges. You can demonstrate this with a microscope (almost everyone has. Put a dirty slide on and focus just beyond the plate: instead of fine particles you'll get HUGE elaborate designs that look astonishingly like what you see in this video. The camera is focused on the tether, not the dust in between. This is mostly child splay for anyone with some decent science knowledge. I'm amazed by how easily people will buy into ridiculous explanations for simple phenomenon.

FFS PPL ITS A WEATHER BALLOON , NEXT !!!

fo' sure! in space! like a sun dog...in SPACE too! YAY!!!!

phunny chit!

op, u haz pin! thx mods!