I believe it's exactly how 4chan would keep finding Shia LeBeouf's flags shown on webcam he was was hiding at remote locations.
With added train sounds and honking I believe. Excellent work!
Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
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Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#12With the casual change from "34-35 degrees" to "lets draw a line at 34 degrees" followed by the "and this is where the press release was" I got the vibe that this was parallel construction. Still some good sleuthing, don't get me wrong, but still.
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#13With the casual change from "34-35 degrees" to "lets draw a line at 34 degrees" followed by the "and this is where the press release was" I got the vibe that this was parallel construction. Still some good sleuthing, don't get me wrong, but still.
Also goes to show you the danger of tunnel vision.
If they flew one to some air base outside DC for the roll out the author would be shooting from the hip and who knows what facility he'd have zero'd in on. Sure it might have been the same one because "the same facility as the B2" is an easy just-so story but you don't really know with any certainty.
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#14misleading. was more like:
* he got the approximate latitude from the stars (34 or 35)
* independently, he found the most plausible airbase based on other information and then noticed that the base is indeed around that latitude
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#15This has only been bested by the 4chan takedown of the Shia LaBeouf's anti-trump flag, which was put up in a random location with a live stream.
"On March 8, the artists, abandoning the idea of a public webcam, raised a white flag, emblazoned with the words “He Will Not Divide Us,” in an “unknown location.” The livestream showed only the flag and the expanse of sky behind it. 4Chan and 8Chan (the forum where discussions that are banned from 4Chan go) snapped into action.... They used the star patterns visible behind the flag at night and the paths of planes flying overhead to confirm the location. A troll who lived nearby drove around honking until the noise was audible on the livestream. On the night of March 10, a group raided the site, took down the flag, and replaced it with a Pepe the Frog T-shirt and a “Make America Great Again” hat. The stream soon went dark again."
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#16I mean, they livestreamed the rollout on YouTube on the Edward’s AFB YouTube channel and said it was at NG’s Palmdale facility (paraphrasing). I’m not sure any of this was a secret…
This is acknowledged by the author: https://twitter.com/johnmcelhone8/status/1600683636029652993
Which I think is also why the thread is so X-marks-the-spot / parallel-reconstruction-y. I think it's more of a "here's the kind of thing we can do with these star-matching tools, applied to an interesting image as an example" than an expose.
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#17With the casual change from "34-35 degrees" to "lets draw a line at 34 degrees" followed by the "and this is where the press release was" I got the vibe that this was parallel construction. Still some good sleuthing, don't get me wrong, but still.
You're right, it wasn't too difficult to guess the location without the stars. The base did happen to be right in-between the 34 and 35 degree lines (34.6 lat), and you can estimate pretty well with only one line
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#18With the casual change from "34-35 degrees" to "lets draw a line at 34 degrees" followed by the "and this is where the press release was" I got the vibe that this was parallel construction. Still some good sleuthing, don't get me wrong, but still.
"let's draw a line at 34 degrees" makes for a nice display, but presumably the actual filtering for matching bases spanned 34–35 degrees.
Re: Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
#19Note to self: Always, always, ALWAYS strip exif data.
You’ve confused the data with the metadata.