'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
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#2Honestly given that weird explanation, I think Occam’s Razor says that ship can fly 0.0
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#3The Action Lab had a great video about this effect recently.
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#4Give it the proper name. This where the "flying" part of the Flying Dutchman comes from.
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#5Nice try by the government to cover up testing of anti-gravity drive recovered from UFO.
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#6Honestly given that weird explanation, I think Occam’s Razor says that ship can fly 0.0
The schematic here on Wikipedia might help clarify: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fada_morgana_graphnn...
If instead of layers of warm/cold air there were giant glass lenses hovering over the ocean, the mirage wouldn’t be mysterious.
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#7Honestly given that weird explanation, I think Occam’s Razor says that ship can fly 0.0
The schematic here on Wikipedia might help clarify: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fada_morgana_graphnn... If instead of layers of warm/cold air there were giant glass lenses hovering over the ocean, the mirage wouldn’t be mysterious.
I think they were attempting a joke. Hot-road mirage is a common thing that most people that were in a car trip during summer have seen, same principles.
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#8The Action Lab had a great video about this effect recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrgKUFbwNf0
Fascinating. From the video, this same effect can even invert the image so that a ship appears to hover upside down: a ghost ship.
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#9The title should be 'Hovering ship', as it is in the BBC article. There is nothing special about a floating ship.
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#10Some think this affected the crew on the Titanic and prevented them from seeing the iceberg and some closer ships from seeing her.
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/today-good-re...