If you want to see ship hovering for real, check out America Cup 75 yacht racing. This year the new rules for yacht design made it so that the yachts literally are flying over the water.
'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
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Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#82What has the world come to, when a BBC 'journalist' can write an article like this, without even including the words 'fata morgana'?
Of course, we know the answer, it is a comprehensive lack of education, and a total failure of any claim to knowledge, by a self-appointed class, which pretends to tell us about the world.
I would normally just say caveat emptor, and hope the journalist would be fired, or the news agency go out of business immediately, but the Brits have a mandatory tax, called the 'TV License' to sustain all this bullshit.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#83What has the world come to, when a BBC 'journalist' can write an article like this, without even including the words 'fata morgana'? Of course, we know the answer, it is a comprehensive lack of education, and a total failure of any claim to knowledge, by a self-appointed class, which pretends to tell us about the world. I would normally just say caveat emptor, and hope the journalist would be fired, or the news agenc…
If this is your metric for how the world is doing, then it's fine.
Of course we know it isn't, but this right here is absolutely not a core issue with it.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#84What has the world come to, when a BBC 'journalist' can write an article like this, without even including the words 'fata morgana'? Of course, we know the answer, it is a comprehensive lack of education, and a total failure of any claim to knowledge, by a self-appointed class, which pretends to tell us about the world. I would normally just say caveat emptor, and hope the journalist would be fired, or the news agenc…
Comprehensive lack of education? People received an education for ~12 years.
In most parts of the world, I would say _caveat emptor_ and the agency would go out of business immediately, but the Brits have a mandatory tax, called the 'TV License' to pay for this bullshit.
Would they?
This is the first time I heard of this phenomena, so I wouldn't know.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#85Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#86The 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.
ghost ship are supposed to hover upside down? I thought they were just supposed to be ghostly and spooky?
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#87I live on Lake Erie, and I've seen this effect before. There will be a point between the shore and the horizon at which the water takes on exactly the hue and luminance of the sky, and makes lakers, sailboats, buoys, even a nearby lighthouse, appear to hover. If the point of transition in the color of the water is pretty straight and is parallel with the actual horizon, the effect is convincing.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#88What has the world come to, when a BBC 'journalist' can write an article like this, without even including the words 'fata morgana'? Of course, we know the answer, it is a comprehensive lack of education, and a total failure of any claim to knowledge, by a self-appointed class, which pretends to tell us about the world. I would normally just say caveat emptor, and hope the journalist would be fired, or the news agenc…
Comprehensive lack of education? People received an education for ~12 years. In most parts of the world, I would say _caveat emptor_ and the agency would go out of business immediately, but the Brits have a mandatory tax, called the 'TV License' to pay for this bullshit. Would they? This is the first time I heard of this phenomena, so I wouldn't know.
If you are British, you will recognise my italics.
It is perfectly acceptable for any member of the public to be ignorant of some unusual phenomenon. It would be fine if this was a blog from the walker who took the photo. But it is not acceptable for a professional 'journalist': either they are a 'science correspondent' and they should know the answer; or they are temp-ing in the science department, and should ask an expert, or at least find 5 minutes from their busy day to google the explanation.
Then again, most 'journalists' these days seem to be employed by the 'social media' department.
Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker
#89What has the world come to, when a BBC 'journalist' can write an article like this, without even including the words 'fata morgana'? Of course, we know the answer, it is a comprehensive lack of education, and a total failure of any claim to knowledge, by a self-appointed class, which pretends to tell us about the world. I would normally just say caveat emptor, and hope the journalist would be fired, or the news agenc…
Wow, what a toxic attitude you have towards journalists. This is a fluff piece, not a serious piece of investigative journalism. The bar does not not need to be very high for this kind of article.
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#90Off 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.
I use NoScript, and the page loaded fine: if you don't load any JS there is no code to detect an ad blocker :-). (This doesn't always work of course, but it does for many websites). Oh, and the website loaded in ~500ms with a 50kb of data downloaded. The "full version" loaded > 5MB of data in 10+ seconds.
Sure but lots of pages won't load without javascript so it's double edged. If the javascript won't load it can't download the page via js only mechanisms.