they just dont giv up do they

http://www.zetatalk.com/teams/rogue/nancy104.htm

SPIKES!

GIANT SPIKES STICKING OUT OF THE SUN TO KILL US ALL!

GO TO YOUR SAFE PLACE NOW!

:roll:

ACK! One of the spikes just poked a hole through my house!

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....OK, so what's with the addition of 'UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy' label on the left upper corner?.....A last stab at implying 'the PTB know but are keeping a lid on the info' by Nancy, et. al.?......
.....Sheeesh....And talk about bad photography......I've got an old 110 instamatic that takes better photos than that.......

A lens cleaner ad?

I am still laughing at this picture!
I saw this this morning when I was forced to surf the web instead of (working) getting into the fray on this site (kept telling me Bandwidth exceeded).
I saw this and read a whole load of *cough* on the West Wing's "Life on Mars" episode on Hoagland's page.

Why aren't we discussing his horrendous science? Let's leave Nancy to her delusions. She bores me so.

The image came from here

Apparently, whoever posted the image, captured the individual images as they came off the webcam. How quaint.

Nancy seems to be falling for anything she can grasp at this late date.

.....Ahhhhh, thank you 'SarahMc'......That would explain the noticable scratches and the like on the 'lens'.....A protective lens of sorts perhaps......
....Oh, and as this is the first time I've replied to a post of yours here, I wanted to offer my thanks to you (and those of your kind) who have been leading the charge against Nancy's Light(headed) Brigade for so long....Job well done.....

From the caption:

Wouldn't it be easier just to get up early?

People instinctively know what lens flare, reflections, and lens scratches are. We've all seen so many pictures. Heck, computer games and movies even re-create lens flare to add realism (how come I never get lens flare with the naked eye?). Despite knowing better, people are still clutching at straws, trying to make any photographic imperfection into a new planet.

OMFG, Dewey beat Truman.

What exactly are we meant to be looking at here? The massive lense flare that is glaringly obvious, or the red blotch hovering about the mountaints Draw a line from the red blotch in the bottom right corner and you'll find that the massive bright patch next to the sun is directly cut through. Thus, I assume this to be a prime example of a lense flare.

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Lens flare is caused by light bouncing around inside an imaging device. In a camera, it's light that enters the front lens, reflects off the outward-facing surface of an inner lens or surface back towards the light source, reflects again off one of the camera-facing lens surfaces, and ends up as a splotch on the film. Most modern lenses have 3 to 7 pieces of glass in them, and consumer-grade cameras rarely have coated optics...there are 3 ways of avoiding lens flare with a camera: coated optics, a lens hood, or not aiming towards bright light sources.

The reason you dont have lens flares with your eyes is that you dont have more than one lens.

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Now they'll say the sun is going to go Nova within the year, that THIS time the warning came from the evil Orion Reptiles because they are turning over to a new leaf and it's only the evil MJ-12 people holding the information back because they have a small number of starships to get the 'chosen few' out before the sun does it's thing and that the spikes are the early warning signs.

And as usual for 299.95 (plus tax) they will sell you the book that will teach you how to make your own warpdrive capable starship so you can save yourself (and go over to Zeta Reticuli or wherever) and a motivational Zeta-Dance video!

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LOL even this one made me laugh...dude they are getting desperate arnt they...LOL!!!!
PuRpY

If you assume the reflection behind the Sun is a planet, then what is the big round thing at the bottom of the foto? :P

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Oh thats the other planet.

Mel.

As I understand it, lens flare happens when light reflects from the surfaces of a multiple element lens. Your eyeball is not multiple element. Simple as that. Throw another element in, though, such as eyeglasses or preferably sunglasses, and you could get some flare.

Staring into the sun wearing anything other than the proper eye protection is NOT recommended... 8)

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