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'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by moron4hire »

midrus wrote: post #68
ridaj wrote: post #66

I sort of freaked out the first time I saw something like this. Then Wikipedia held my hand and said everything was OK and this even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)

"...The optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed..." To me that's the most Men In Black explanation I've ever heard. Definitely confirms this is aliens.

You can confirm it at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=968gVUAY9Mg

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Post by damau »

roelschroeven wrote: post #110

Does anyone else have intermittent problems resolving BBC domains, or is it just me? Sometimes I can't resolve www.bbc.co.uk, sometimes it works. Same for www.bbc.com. I don't have that problem with any other domain name I have encountered. The intermittency makes it very hard to troubleshoot.

This has happened to me. Do you use a VPN at all?. I think by connecting from different perceived places between your IP location and the cookie (from a previous visit at a previous IP location) can confuse the redirect.

Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by M2Ys4U »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #98
M2Ys4U wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The TV license is a tax imposed by the government The requirement to hold a licence is a statutory one. Likewise, payment of the fee must, by law, be made to the BBC, and enforcement of the licensing regime must be done by (or on behalf of) the BBC. Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax. (Yes, I know that all taxes must have a statutory basis, but this is one that is levied outside of the…

> Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax. I think we're encountering the "two countries separated by a common language" thing here. "Government" (in the UK sense) refers only to the current Prime Minister and assistants, yes? In the US sense, Congress is considered to be part of the "government".

>"Government" (in the UK sense) refers only to the current Prime Minister and assistants, yes? In the US sense, Congress is considered to be part of the "government".

Broadly, yes; "The government" almost exclusively refers to the executive. So, The Crown, ministers, and perhaps the civil service depending on the context.

Re: 'Hovering ship' photographed off Cornish coast by walker

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Post by mordechai9000 »

ridaj wrote: post #66

I sort of freaked out the first time I saw something like this. Then Wikipedia held my hand and said everything was OK and this even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)

There's a spot where I walk my dog near my house. It follows a power line trail up a hill, and you can turn around and see Denali. For whatever reason, on warm spring days Fata Morgana distortion is fairly common from this spot. I've seen it a few times. At it's most obvious, Denali will appear to be sitting on a pedestal of sheer cliffs, thousands of feet high, surrounded by non existent tabletop mountains and improbable, fantastically shaped spires that would be 10,000 feet ASL if they were real. My cellphone camera doesn't do it justice to though.

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Post by Biganon »

david422 wrote: post #79
ridaj wrote: post #66

I sort of freaked out the first time I saw something like this. Then Wikipedia held my hand and said everything was OK and this even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)

This new image needs to go in the wikipedia article. The example images are kinda bleh. But this one really illustrates the concept.

A fata morgana is a special type of superior mirage, where the object is heavily distorted, often to the point of being unrecognizable. The ship in the article kept its shape and is very much recognizable.

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Post by fsckboy »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #98
M2Ys4U wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The TV license is a tax imposed by the government The requirement to hold a licence is a statutory one. Likewise, payment of the fee must, by law, be made to the BBC, and enforcement of the licensing regime must be done by (or on behalf of) the BBC. Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax. (Yes, I know that all taxes must have a statutory basis, but this is one that is levied outside of the…

> Thus, it is Parliament, not the government, that imposes the tax. I think we're encountering the "two countries separated by a common language" thing here. "Government" (in the UK sense) refers only to the current Prime Minister and assistants, yes? In the US sense, Congress is considered to be part of the "government".

but the license fee is not imposed by one government after another, it is imposed by law, a law passed by a government and enforced by a sequence of governments thereafter

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Post by dylan604 »

mdeck_ wrote: post #17
Thomashuet wrote: post #9

The title should be 'Hovering ship', as it is in the BBC article. There is nothing special about a floating ship.

Hm. But is there anything particularly special about a hovering ship... a hovering... craft? :)

It would be very special if it were built by aliens
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