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Mister Snee
03:13 / 02.11.01
Hell yeah.

Some nutty stuff, and a convincing, professional and damning explanation of it.

In short, "Roswell Rods" are theoretical cylindrical lifeforms with fins/wings that are alleged to fly too fast for the naked eye to make them out, but are often caught on film cavorting amongst the clouds or landscape. Their size varies from a few inches to a few hundred feet. Most people write them off immediately as blurs of things passing the camera, and this indeed makes a good deal of sense, as shown by the second link up there.

This guy's explanation of Roswell Rods seemed to me to be the last word on the silly things until I noticed something odd. I'm a self-important fop, so I'll paste my entire e-mail to the fellow regarding my concerns.

Well, okay, just the bits relevant to my point.

quote:
(snip)
However, I have one concern...

At roswellrods.com, if you go to "Theories Of Origin" (sweet gods, they're guessing which Cambrian organisms these damned bug blurs came from!) and look at the picture for "rods", the sinusoidal patterns making up the "fins" or "wings" don't look exactly as one might expect. If they are, in fact, the motion blurs of a bug flapping its wings (4 fins per frame makes 480 beats per second, which is fair), one would expect them to extend triangularly out of the body and disappear back into it in the same way. If you'll excuse my ASCII art:

/\ /\ /\ /\
/ \/ \/ \/ \
=================
\ /\ /\ /\ /
\/ \/ \/ \/

That's what I'd expect to see. However, what we see is a diamond extending from the body -- that is, if the length of the streak is basically the same object at different points in time, we should see the wings extend out to their full length then draw back in, as above, but instead, if taken temporally, the visible part of the wing appears away from the body, then extends towards it until it joins, the disappears back into a point. F'rinstance (sorry, again):

/\ /\ /\ /\
\/ \/ \/ \/
=================
/\ /\ /\ /\
\/ \/ \/ \/

So, why, oh why? As far as I can tell, your bugrods exhibit the first (expected) appearance but the rods exhibit the latter one -- look at the skydiver rods on your web page, for instance. I'd say the constant relationship between the rods' speed and their length, as well as the damning similarity to your bug pictures, pretty much has put the bizarre roswell rod theory to rest, but I am curious as to why we see these diamonds instead of the proper triangles (or more accurately, blurs) of your bug shots.


So... what's the consensus 'lither opinion, then? Why, oh why, oh why?


[ 02-11-2001: Message edited by: Mister Snee ]
 
 
Rose
22:22 / 06.11.01
quote:Originally posted by grant:
I like the idea that they're just real big bugs -- but it seems likely that since they're native to video cameras, they're just an unexpected artifact of video chip technology.

Moving pictures of big bugs? Or energy blips across a video chip? Or actual high-speed life forms?



Er... how would energy blips across a video chip be outputted so that a person could see it? Should it now first blow the chip apart?
Either way, I would like to think that they are high-speed life forms, that is much more interesting than big bugs.
Ahh well.
 
 
Lionheart
18:53 / 12.11.01
Actually, I've seen the most convincing proof of "Rods" from NASA itself.

What's the proof?

It was a Discovery Channel program on aliens. There was this astronaut talking and he was saying that he doesn't have an exact opinion on aliens but he did see quite a few interesting things in outer space. And he caught a few of them on tape.

Program cuts to video footage which he took from outer space. A white rod is moving in outer space at an extremely slow speed. Since this is outer space you can't tell how big it is. On the tv screen it's quite big. And has amazing complexity. While the outer part of it moves like...like a wriggling thingie, the inside moves at a different rate, and there more layers in it.

This is is obviously alive and NASA has it on tape and so does the Discovery channel. It's not suppressed or anything and if somebody knows what I'm talking about, if they know the name of the astronaut then they can find the video footage of the "Rod In Space!!!" <--good movie title.
 
  
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