Moontanman

I found little info on the specifics of UV light and the needs of birds only that they do need it and can see at least some of he UV. Lots of ads promoting various light sources for birds containing UV are available. The following article may have some relevance. I know that good quality foods and calcium carbonate sources can allow turtles to grow correctly with little direct UV but I'm not sure if that applies to birds. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159113001512

I'm not so sure about this, unless Americans are crazier than Russians! Here in the US we seem to be ok with the dear leader doing whatever he wants. Once the nukes start flying push back by the population seems a bit of a day late and a dollar short scenario. Support of the crazy states would be immaterial at that juncture.

How long would nuking a target deny use of that land? Neil deGrasse Tyson asserted recently that modern nukes release significantly less radioactive fallout than the original (1940s) style nukes and we can see that the only two cities ever nuked were not abandoned but were inhabited continuously to this day. I admit to less than perfect knowledge on this so I could be far off the mark.

Couldn't panspermia from another planet in the solar system skew the data if we find life anywhere else in the solar system? Unless said life is significantly different from the life we have on Earth how would we show any life detected on Mars didn't come from Earth? Or even show life on Earth couldn't have come from Mars? I'm not sure that finding life elsewhere in the solar system is a good way to plot data points.

That is possible, the vid is not exactly clear enough to be sure. I'm going to risk being flamed and suggest some bald speculation on this, to be honest we are far from knowing if this vid is even real but... These so called orbs make me think of an electromagnetic/plasma phenomena. Possibly something natural we are simply unfamiliar with. I see no reason to propose technology of some sort for "orbs", to me they look like a natural phenomenon, hard to explain why exactly.

It's relatively obvious that three pieces broke off the object after impact and continued along with it, I have no idea what they were, I was asking if anyone else did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCaSBrLMLTg

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Does anyone have thoughts on what the three objects that appeared to break off the UAP when the missile hit and followed it after impact?

Since when are hellfire missiles used in air to air combat?

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I've been looking at the photos until I am red in the face and I have to agree, the anomalous objects do not seem to match actual stars... to me it's obvious... but I am disappointed that UAP seems to be infiltrating into science simply by lack of better explanations of late. Sort of a UAP of the gaps.

I am aware, I am not suggesting UAP, I said that "apparently in orbit" The paper is new and was just posted a week ago or so, I did post the link to the paper, The video was not and is not evidence for this I posted it because I was impressed by the data discussed and the links to that data provided and I thought that some might be more willing to watch a short science video instead of reading the paper. Do I have to quote the paper or is posting a link to the paper discussing this enough? I can quote the paper if you want but I do not personally have any data. I apologized to @TheVat for not remembering his post but the data is new, just released. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_multiple-transient_events_in_the_First_Palomar_Sky_Survey For some reason I don't have a quote feature anymore. "References (31) Figures (8) Abstract and FiguresOld, digitized astronomical images taken before the human spacefaring age offer a rare glimpse of the sky before the era of artificial satellites. In this paper, we present the first optical searches for artificial objects with high specular reflections near the Earth. We follow the method proposed in Villarroel et al. (2022) and use a transient sample drawn from (Solano et al. 2022). We use images from the First Palomar Sky Survey to search for multiple (within a plate exposure) transients that, in addition to being point-like, are aligned along a narrow band. We provide a shortlist of the most promising candidates, including one with ∼3.9σ statistical significance. As in previous cases (Villarroel et al. 2021, Solano et al. 2023), no known astrophysical or instrumental explanations fully account for these events. We explore remaining possibilities, including fast reflections from highly reflective objects in geosynchronous orbit, or emissions from artificial sources high above Earth's atmosphere. Notably, the ∼3.9σ candidate coincides in time with the Washington D.C. 1952 UFO flyover, and another (a ∼2.0σ candidate) falls within a day of the peak of the 1954 UFO wave (Figuet 1980). We also find a highly significant (∼22σ) deficit of transients from Solano et al. 2022 within Earth's shadow, supporting the interpretation that sunlight reflection plays a key role in producing these events. This study should be viewed as an initial exploration into the potential of archival photographic surveys to reveal transient phenomena, and we hope it motivates more systematic searches acros"" want?

This is a non sequitur, the observations do not in any way match quasi moons, please see the paper I listed.

I would agree but "usually worthless" doesn't mean "always worthless" but I just suggested it due to the data discussed by so far reasonably competent people and the links they provide might be easier digested by some who didn't want to bother with the paper I linked. How ever the gist of it is that a review of photographic plates from Mt Palomar Observatory has found some unusual objects that vanished after being photographed. There is some other stuff that has been attached to it by some people but at it's core are the photographic plates. From what I understand an effort to understand these photos is ongoing, I'm sure I am not qualified to critique the process but so far the data is of interest. I must have forgotten your post, I apologize, as far as I know your's are the most recent update. The link I shared is from 2025 according to the date listed. Yes the new paper was just posted in the last few days. That was the wrong video, sorry, this one is the one I wanted to post, as before it comes with all the links to papers he is using. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbg71Q4Dclo

Is anyone else following the apparent discovery of objects in Earth orbit pre 1957 by Dr. Beatriz Villarroel while looking at old astronomical photography plates from Mt Palomar Observatory? It would appear that several objects were photographed by the Mt Palomar telescope in 1952 that appeared to be in Earth orbit https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_multiple-transient_events_in_the_First_Palomar_Sky_Survey These transient events are difficult to explain, I will post a youtube video explaining these transient events you can watch if you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsV9wI4J2ic https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/1mjpa5k/aligned_multipletransient_events_in_the_first/ This discovery, if confirmed, seems to be quite interesting... thoughts?

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Hmmm... I'd like to see those calculations, the ice moons of the solar system come to mind? I am pretty sure, debunking the Bible used to be my thing, that only animals that breathed air counted, Genesis 7:15 and Genesis 7:21 ( I am relatively sure that in at least one version it says drew the breath of life or breathed through nostrils so only vertebrate land animals counted... which of course is kinda of iffy for whales) My old go to was that the existence of echinoderms ad cephalopods falsified the world wide flood... IMHO!