Post by LOU on Aug 2nd, 2012 at 7:16pm
CoolP is right!
As an amateur astronomer for more than 60 years :o I can tell you that your eyes can play many tricks on you that in your mind will be "real."
Countless times pilots call ATC calling out traffic, and it turns out to be Venus or Jupiter. Venus by the way is the third brightest object in the sky after the sun and the moon. Venus will cast shadows on a very dark night. As the planet rises, it changes color rapidly and flashes as the atmosphere bends or refracts the light. I wish I had a buck for each time a pilot would mistake one of the bright planets for a plane. When your eyes have little to focus on the muscles in the eye will make fast movements which can be interpreted as movement of the object.
I would love to encounter an "ET" and wonder how that would go. Maybe something like this...
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Peter, just for the record Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light years away, but the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. :-?
Lou
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As an amateur astronomer for more than 60 years :o I can tell you that your eyes can play many tricks on you that in your mind will be "real."
Countless times pilots call ATC calling out traffic, and it turns out to be Venus or Jupiter. Venus by the way is the third brightest object in the sky after the sun and the moon. Venus will cast shadows on a very dark night. As the planet rises, it changes color rapidly and flashes as the atmosphere bends or refracts the light. I wish I had a buck for each time a pilot would mistake one of the bright planets for a plane. When your eyes have little to focus on the muscles in the eye will make fast movements which can be interpreted as movement of the object.
I would love to encounter an "ET" and wonder how that would go. Maybe something like this...
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Peter, just for the record Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light years away, but the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. :-?
Lou
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