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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On May 16, 3:19*pm, Joe Egginton wrote:
On 16/05/2011 12:15, Martin Brown wrote: I am generally fairly sceptical about most crop circles as so many have been faked. But I happened to notice on the Doomsday programme on Saturday night that one of their tracking aerial helicopter views of Old Sarum, Wiltshire included by chance what looks to me like a genuine and fairly complex crop circle at the bottom left corner of the frame. The relevant part can be seen using BBC iPlayer at 54:15-54:24 into the programme with best overall view at 54:19: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj8fc/Domesday/ The crop circle looks to be new with sharply defined edges as compared to the tractor lines which are also visible where it turned at the field boundaries. It looks natural enough... Regards, Martin Brown I've always been of the opinion that most crop circles are fake, the few that are genuine are probably something to do with local strong magnetic fields. Joe Egginton Wolverhampton 175m asl- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - How are crops affected my magnetic fields? Be handy for the farmers when harvesting just a couple of these and job done http://www.magnet-services.co.uk/mac...omponents.html |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On 16/05/2011 15:42, Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/05/2011 15:19, Joe Egginton wrote: On 16/05/2011 12:15, Martin Brown wrote: I am generally fairly sceptical about most crop circles as so many have been faked. But I happened to notice on the Doomsday programme on [snip] The crop circle looks to be new with sharply defined edges as compared to the tractor lines which are also visible where it turned at the field boundaries. It looks natural enough... I've always been of the opinion that most crop circles are fake, the few that are genuine are probably something to do with local strong magnetic fields. Have to be one heck of a magnetic field to do that to straw! Spiral whirlwinds touching down might well be the explanation. It would be really nice if someone saw one being created and videoed it. Regards, Martin Brown http://tinyurl.com/3dxl2m9 |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On May 16, 6:46*pm, Joe Egginton wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/3dxl2m9 The author admits that there has never been any evidence for circles related to tornadoes or whirlwinds. Few remain stationary anyway. So would leave an untidy linear design. A brief but exciting 20ft high "twister" in a crop right outside our garden resulted in no visible change on the ground despite considerable airborne debris. The vast majority of circles are strangely localised to circles of hoaxers in the west of England. Though I'd be fascinated to see exactly how they manage a complex design. |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On 16/05/2011 12:15, Martin Brown wrote:
I am generally fairly sceptical about most crop circles as so many have been faked. But I happened to notice on the Doomsday programme on Saturday night that one of their tracking aerial helicopter views of Old Sarum, Wiltshire included by chance what looks to me like a genuine and fairly complex crop circle at the bottom left corner of the frame. The relevant part can be seen using BBC iPlayer at 54:15-54:24 into the programme with best overall view at 54:19: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj8fc/Domesday/ The crop circle looks to be new with sharply defined edges as compared to the tractor lines which are also visible where it turned at the field boundaries. It looks natural enough... Regards, Martin Brown With all the talk of Crop-circles, and some people linking them to aliens and such... it might be worth mentioning there is a difference between DOOMsday, and the subject of the program - DOMEsday! -- A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent. |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On 16/05/2011 14:19, Androcles wrote:
This easter egg is a Tornado: 51°34'44.95"N 1°43'46.72"W Looks like a steam train to me -- Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs. |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
"Zoolook" wrote in message ... | On 16/05/2011 14:19, Androcles wrote: | | This easter egg is a Tornado: | 51°34'44.95"N | 1°43'46.72"W | | Looks like a steam train to me This one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF2Jgg1LpzU Neat how it got caught in the aerial photograph for Google Earth, huh? |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On May 17, 2:21*am, Andrex muttered:
Neat how it got caught in the aerial photograph for Google Earth, huh? Are we now blaming steam trains for crop circles? Has this particular locomotive caused the strange (alien) markings on the nearby roundabout? The egg shape is surely highly symbolic and offers the chance of interpretation by even by the most foolish of ufologists? |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On 16/05/2011 13:20, Chris.B wrote:
On May 16, 1:15 pm, Martin wrote: The relevant part can be seen using BBC iPlayer at 54:15-54:24 into the programme with best overall view at 54:19: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj8fc/Domesday/ iPlayer is not available outside the UK. Ah. I hadn't thought of that! Here are a couple of temporary links to my original best frame grab from the program and a perspective corrected one to better show the pattern (assuming right angled field boundaries). It is circular and surprisingly complex inside. If it was a hoax someone went to a lot of trouble making it. http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc.jpg http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc2.jpg I may have to take them down if the Beeb objects but I think this probably constitutes fair usage for the purposes of commentary. Taken from BBC "Doomsday documentary" iPlayer framegrab at 54:19. BTW can you (or any other volunteer) read Danish scientific papers? Regards, Martin Brown |
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Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage
On May 17, 10:16*am, Martin Brown
wrote: If it was a hoax someone went to a lot of trouble making it. http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc.jpg http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc2.jpg Indeed! Thanks for the links. BTW can you (or any other volunteer) read Danish scientific papers? In what context? New or Old Danish? Why not just use a free online translator and interpolate? OCR can also be useful. |
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Thiele's 1880 paper (was Crop Circles from BBC helicopter footage)
On 17/05/2011 09:29, Chris.B wrote:
On May 17, 10:16 am, Martin wrote: If it was a hoax someone went to a lot of trouble making it. http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc.jpg http://www.nezumi.demon.co.uk/temp/cropc2.jpg Indeed! Thanks for the links. BTW can you (or any other volunteer) read Danish scientific papers? In what context? New or Old Danish? Scientific paper 1880 publication date. I don't know. I am afraid there is no money in it but there is the kudos of killing one of the raving anti-Einstein nutters cherished Urban Legends about a Danish astronomer called Thiele explaining Brownian motion stone dead. So far we have established beyond reasonable doubt from a French translation of his 1880 paper on least squares model fitting that he did derive the Kalman filter but published only in Danish. It wasn't rediscovered again until 1960 by Kalman & Bucy. It would be useful to have someone check the rambling prose of the original Danish paper just in case he actually did explain Brownian motion in it somewhere and the paragraph was "lost in translation". It is highly unlikely though. The original thread is in sci.astro and titled "Antisemitic ramblings against Einstein" (which is a pretty good description of some of the rants) If you pick it up from msgid that contains the links to the online version of the paper as an image scan. I couldn't make it work so Jerry saved me a copy of the French translation. The important question to answer is did he actually ever mention the keywords "Brownian motion" in this 1880's paper? And if so did he explain how and why the pollen moves? (it certainly isn't in the French translation) He also made novel contributions to 3 body theory that also went ignored and unacknowledged because of his Danish only publications. Why not just use a free online translator and interpolate? OCR can also be useful. I haven't been able to find a free online translator that would take in Danish and give me English. In addition having to go through OCR first would make it pretty hairy. I have to admit to some curiosity at how his papers Danish title is actually much longer than the French! I found the paper title in French (now have a full copy) "Sur la Compensation de quelques Erreurs quasi-systematiques ar la Methode des moinders Carres" and it translates to "On the compensation of some quasi-systematic errors by the method of least squares" The French title translation also speaks volumes about the rambling nature of the guys prose style. The original Danish reads (excuse lost accents) "Om Anvendelse af mindste Kwadraters Methode i nogle Tilfaelde, hvor en Kmoplikation af visse Slags uensartede tilfaeldige Fejlkilder giver Fejlene en 'systematisk' Karacter." It is rare to see any phrase where the French translation is not the longest. A direct translation of the Danish title into English would be handy. It is largely thanks to a few of his fans in modern statistics groups that this early work has come to light. You can't help but feel sorry for this guy. He was several decades ahead of his time in terms of the techniques he pioneered but didn't manage to communicate them to anyone outside Denmark. Regards, Martin Brown |
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