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originally posted by: BodhisattvaStyle
a reply to: wavelength
Haha you're welcome, now that song is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
I was a chef for a good while and we use to play this little mind game with each other where we would home or sing quietly the most annoying song we could think of. The object of the game was to get the song "stuck in their head all night." You would know you had "won that round" because whoever you were doing it to would come to work the next day and curse at you as they laughed and said "dude, I had that horrible song stuck in my head all night long."
Our own little "mind games" to pass the time.
And this one is in my complete ignorance: does a mylar balloon show up on a planes radar? (I am really surprised there actually if it is so) Do birds show up on radar?
Just seems like the object in question would have to be larger than say, basketball or balloon to be visible like that at such a long distance, and especially able to be visible on a phone camera like this. I take a lot of pics. And something at say, 100 yards is pretty much invisible.
originally posted by: wavelength
originally posted by: BodhisattvaStyle
a reply to: wavelength
Haha you're welcome, now that song is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
I was a chef for a good while and we use to play this little mind game with each other where we would home or sing quietly the most annoying song we could think of. The object of the game was to get the song "stuck in their head all night." You would know you had "won that round" because whoever you were doing it to would come to work the next day and curse at you as they laughed and said "dude, I had that horrible song stuck in my head all night long."
Our own little "mind games" to pass the time.
Haha!! Well, it looks like you won this round.
Funny you guys did that because I used to whistle "A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood" around my colleagues. That one really got to them.
And this one is in my complete ignorance: does a mylar balloon show up on a planes radar? (I am really surprised there actually if it is so) Do birds show up on radar?
Good question!
Yes and no. Balloons typically have a weak radar reflection. Radar would not be able to identify them as balloons, but they may show up as an unidentified 'blip' if at all. Although radar is sensitive enough to "see" large birds, it has filters (generally based on speed) to 'declutter' the screen from birds and other small, slow-moving targets. Metal reflects better; a metallized Mylar balloon would be much more reflective (visible) to radar than, say, a round latex balloon.
Just seems like the object in question would have to be larger than say, basketball or balloon to be visible like that at such a long distance, and especially able to be visible on a phone camera like this. I take a lot of pics. And something at say, 100 yards is pretty much invisible.
Right! The object in the video does not look 18" across by any means. It would have had to be about the size of one of the balloons in the video below. Watch them float off... could be a coincidence but worth noting, this festival occurred in roughly the same area the plane in the OP was flying over. If it was a balloon, it would've had to have been one from one of these festivals. It's no birthday balloon.
originally posted by: BodhisattvaStyle
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Easy Peasy….
Starboard = Left side if viewing front of aircraft cockpit head on.
Starboard = Right side if sitting in the aircraft cockpit looking forward.
Port = Right side if viewing front of aircraft cockpit head on.
Port = Left side if sitting in the aircraft cockpit looking forward.
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Nice
And yeah, something I actually had to Google real quick. Lol
I did notice there was a difference in what the port side vs the starboard side was depending on point of reference.
Made it somewhat more confusing for me.
Thanks for the exact clarification for us.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
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Notice the six exhaust ports and the five viewing portholes for the crew….
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originally posted by: ziplock9000
a reply to: BodhisattvaStyle
"but this one is moving way too fast"
You have no idea how fast this is moving.
Please read up on relativity and how it applies to velocity.