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originally posted by: parad0x122
a reply to: TheDon
This is the same effect that happens when heat causes ripples on the sidewalk during a hot summer's day. Atmospheric distortion, not a hologram.
Besides that, the fact that our Oceans have waves tends to prove otherwise.
(let's face it, anyone who looks at the moon through a large Celestron for thousands of hours isn't going to be stymied by that)
originally posted by: Baddogma
a reply to: signalfire
I just want to clarify my own position as my first post was more flip than editorial... I see his point that the wave of interference was not his camera ...but jumping to the "hologram covering up activity" is a tad too deep-end... a wave of turbulence in the upper atmosphere is a better fit.
Though I'm of the opinion there is likely some black-op man activity up there... and a projection set up to obscure any activities isn't impossible... just veeeeeeery improbable.
Thousands of hours? Assuming perfect weather, and that he observed the Moon for five hours every single day, that is at least a year and a half of observing time. He would understand how his equipment works. He does not, which calls his claim of logging thousands of hours into question.
originally posted by: parad0x122
a reply to: TheDon
That's because all 3 people are looking through the same atmosphere: Earth's....
Now I must say that even though I believe this observer to be a bit sketchy in regard to him thinking that the moon is a hologram, he may have stumbled onto an observation that's relatively rare: Atmospheric Tides. They have been researched for decades and we still try to understand them, but essentially the atmosphere is effected by thermal dynamics due to the heat of the Sun, similar to the way the Ocean is effected by the gravitational pull of the Moon. (Hence why it has to be real.)
For more information, check this link: Atmospheric Tides - Wikipedia.
Edit: You're welcome.
There are LOTS of amateur astronomers with expensive equipment putting in all night, every night.
originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
Having been around the block, I KNOW that something funky is happening on/in our nighttime companion.
originally posted by: parad0x122
a reply to: signalfire
SnF to the OP for bringing this here, it's definitely peaked my curiosity.