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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
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Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#42Off topic, but BBC blocks me because I use iPhone’s Adblock. BBC is government funded with a mission to inform the British people. Why would they require ad viewing and default to not showing news without ads? Seems against their mission. For profit news I understand as the whole “maximize shareholder equity” thing, but when government news sources use these anti-consumer tactics it’s depressing to me.
What is iPhone's Adblock? Is there some default iOS ad-blocker that I don't know about?
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#43But why does the ship appear in that location, and not the water it's sitting on? What's special about the ship?
The ship is higher up than the water it is floating on.
You don’t see the keel of the ship, but only parts of it that are above the waterline, and not all of those (corollary: this ship is as good as empty)
Less impressive versions of this would show only the top of the bridge, or the entire ship and some of the water it’s floating on (actually, this image might show some water below the ship. That tiny whitish line below it could be that)
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#44Off topic, but BBC blocks me because I use iPhone’s Adblock. BBC is government funded with a mission to inform the British people. Why would they require ad viewing and default to not showing news without ads? Seems against their mission. For profit news I understand as the whole “maximize shareholder equity” thing, but when government news sources use these anti-consumer tactics it’s depressing to me.
The BBC is not a government news source. It's not even funded by the UK government.[0] It is - by law[1] - required to be completely editorially independent. The BBC is primarily funded by the TV Licence. The licence is levvied on anyone who watches live TV (any live TV) or uses BBC's SVoD service, BBC iPlayer. The BBC does operate a commercial subsidiary (BBC Studios), and the main BBC does have other revenue source…
> required to be completely editorially independent.
Although historically it seems very rare that the BBC view on any international politics differs from that of the UK government.
Hopefully that's because both cater to the views of the British public, but it also seems possible that there is some kind of informal backchannel going on...
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#45Off topic, but BBC blocks me because I use iPhone’s Adblock. BBC is government funded with a mission to inform the British people. Why would they require ad viewing and default to not showing news without ads? Seems against their mission. For profit news I understand as the whole “maximize shareholder equity” thing, but when government news sources use these anti-consumer tactics it’s depressing to me.
The BBC is not a government news source. It's not even funded by the UK government.[0] It is - by law[1] - required to be completely editorially independent. The BBC is primarily funded by the TV Licence. The licence is levvied on anyone who watches live TV (any live TV) or uses BBC's SVoD service, BBC iPlayer. The BBC does operate a commercial subsidiary (BBC Studios), and the main BBC does have other revenue source…
The TV license is a tax imposed by the government, ergo the BBC is funded by the UK government.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#46Off topic, but BBC blocks me because I use iPhone’s Adblock. BBC is government funded with a mission to inform the British people. Why would they require ad viewing and default to not showing news without ads? Seems against their mission. For profit news I understand as the whole “maximize shareholder equity” thing, but when government news sources use these anti-consumer tactics it’s depressing to me.
The BBC is not a government news source. It's not even funded by the UK government.[0] It is - by law[1] - required to be completely editorially independent. The BBC is primarily funded by the TV Licence. The licence is levvied on anyone who watches live TV (any live TV) or uses BBC's SVoD service, BBC iPlayer. The BBC does operate a commercial subsidiary (BBC Studios), and the main BBC does have other revenue source…
> It's not even funded by the UK government.[0]
> The BBC is primarily funded by the TV Licence. The licence is levvied on anyone who watches live TV (any live TV)
Who mandates the payment of a TV License and allocates the funds from it to the BBC? I would assume that's the UK government. These terms may be used differently in the UK, but in the US that would be considered government funded.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#47Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#48The title should be 'Hovering ship', as it is in the BBC article. There is nothing special about a floating ship.
I think "Flying" would be even better, as the ship is most likely moving somewhere, not just standing still. Would also tie the story into the story of the Flying Dutchman ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman ) and maybe provide some explanation for why people been seeing it as flying
In this case, being off the coast of Falmouth, the ship is more than likely standing still.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The BBC is not a government news source. It's not even funded by the UK government.[0] It is - by law[1] - required to be completely editorially independent. The BBC is primarily funded by the TV Licence. The licence is levvied on anyone who watches live TV (any live TV) or uses BBC's SVoD service, BBC iPlayer. The BBC does operate a commercial subsidiary (BBC Studios), and the main BBC does have other revenue source…
> required to be completely editorially independent. Although historically it seems very rare that the BBC view on any international politics differs from that of the UK government. Hopefully that's because both cater to the views of the British public, but it also seems possible that there is some kind of informal backchannel going on...
> Although historically it seems very rare that the BBC view on any international politics differs from that of the UK government.
I know a lot of Britishers that would dispute this version of affairs. To my mind the typical BBC point of view is mildly left-of-centre, well-to-do and urban.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#50It's strange that the air and the water below the "floating" ship is so crisp and clear. In a superior illusion, there normally is quite a bit of distortion appearing like a wall of fog or galss under the ship (or island etc). It's also strange that this was seen at a very close range when such illusions normally involve objects far away, near the horizon.
Is it possible this image is a hoax, or that it was edited to exaggerate the real effect?