Mojo
Mostly harmless
I stepped out on the back porch last night, and the LED bug light was making almost exactly the same sound as recorded here. OMIGOD! they've landed here now!
They most likely mistook your back porch for Alpha Centauri again.
I stepped out on the back porch last night, and the LED bug light was making almost exactly the same sound as recorded here. OMIGOD! they've landed here now!
I see the question I asked here: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13878029&postcount=1131 has gone unanswered.
If a bat had momentarily shorted out a high voltage transformer, how much evidence do you think you could see from the ground? You could not even recognize a picture of a bird at that distance.![]()
He still hasn’t really said what a Search BeamTM is either, although he’s modified it to a “a transportation beam of some kind”, presumably because a “search beam” would be difficult to define in a way that would distinguish it from a searchlight.
So, cjdelphi, what did the “beam” in your video transport?
Alien search beams make a different sounding audio glitch from alien transporter beams. Very distinctive. Ironically, inaudible to bats.
I stepped out on the back porch last night, and the LED bug light was making almost exactly the same sound as recorded here. OMIGOD! they've landed here now!
I couldn’t see anything being transported in the video, so I’m curious as to how cjdelphi could identify a brief flash of light as “a transportation beam of some kind“.
It's hard to reply to someone who's only intent is to cling to a belief in which they are heavily emotionally invested but cannot support with objective evidence or reasonable argument.
If your claim is being ridiculed you should at least consider the possibility it's because it's ridiculous.
I couldn’t see anything being transported in the video, so I’m curious as to how cjdelphi could identify a brief flash of light as “a transportation beam of some kind“.
I am stealing that.

It doubtlessly did light up the whole street. It just wasn't your street, it was one street over.
Your latest video is a loop of the moment the power tries and fails to reconnect and it perfectly well illustrates the flash of the fault still being present, 250 feet in front the camera, directly behind the house opposite. The flash lights up the tops of the trees while your street remains in shadow. Indirect light from the glow in the trees is seen on the car and the path on the right.
Here's how close the transformer pole is to your street. 250 feet in front of your camera. You would have a direct view of it except the house opposite you is right in the way.
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The three phase power lines only come halfway up your street. That transformer is as close to you as they are. It's the only local one I could find using Streetview. You seem to have fixated on the notion that the power line fault must have happened in your own street. I can't see any good reason to assume that. I can see that both streets' power lines join each other at the street corners and are directly bonded together. Your street's overhead power lines join others which run right to the transformer pole.
I think that perfectly explains the lights on the trees and path--but what about the light on the pots/path directly in front and on the bottom of the video--at about 0:19 of the slowed down clip? I'm not sure about that.
I have taken away one plus from this monster crash. I Googled >Ion Thrusters< as I was wondering about if/how they would work in the atmosphere. It turns out the answer is "possibly but not very well".
Simply scaling up an ion thruster intended for space would, but that's not at all likely to happen. It would be way too energy inefficient for one thing.I think that one powerful enough to do any lifting in the lower atmosphere of this planet would cause some serious electromagnetic side effects above a simple beam of visible light.
Ion drives meant for work in the atmosphere would be entirely different from those in space. Experiments have been done on this and, as you expected, don't lead to promising results.
Atmospheric ion drives would probably come from this field:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrohydrodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-propelled_aircraft
Simply scaling up an ion thruster intended for space would, but that's not at all likely to happen. It would be way too energy inefficient for one thing.
The techniques cited at the Wikipedia articles above generally don't lead to those problems, but then they don't work yet.
Theoretically no different from being under a helicopter of the same size. Most of the air moved by those techniques isn't ionized, but gets accelerated due to collisions with ions. And the ions are typically neutralized before leaving the thruster too.I am still a bit boggled about what the effects of blasting a huge stream of ionized gas into the free atmosphere at close to ground level would be.
Je sême á tout vents.
I think that perfectly explains the lights on the trees and path--but what about the light on the pots/path directly in front and on the bottom of the video--at about 0:19 of the slowed down clip? I'm not sure about that.
Theoretically no different from being under a helicopter of the same size. Most of the air moved by those techniques isn't ionized, but gets accelerated due to collisions with ions. And the ions are typically neutralized before leaving the thruster too.
That has a certain je ne sais quoi, but I don’t know what it means.