alt Hacker NewsEver notice how UFO and Bigfoot sightings mostly went away once everyone had a 4K60 video camera in their pockets?
One thread about this in 1995, and then the phenomenon is never seen nor heard about again . . .
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On the other hand, we just witnessed a nationwide drone panic, and not for a lack of video evidence…
An odd phenomenon being rare and hard to document is neither proof nor evidence of absence for it existing.
I'd say UFO mania is more intense and more mainstream than ever. Still no remotely compelling physical evidence, of course.
Bigfoot and ghosts yes, but the recent drone mania seems to have increased. :) Maybe they would have been called UFOs before we had video to look back on.
> One thread about this in 1995, and then the phenomenon is never seen nor heard about again . . .
A default mode of skepticism is best, however the story of this incident didn't trigger my "Yeah, probably not" reflex. It is based on known physical principles and the extremely unusual context seems in the ballpark of sufficient to potentially cause something like this. So my assumption was this was an extremely unlikely edge case that happened "that one time."
It's also not something which strikes me as being a thing people who work in a large 3M factory would lie about.
We had plenty of UFO sightings over the last couple of years. Remember the navy pilots? The drones a few months back?
Big Foot, sadly, has been displaced by climate change and was forced to relocate to Canada
Not sure about Bigfoot but isn't it pretty well-established that most UFO sightings were the SR71?
They even went home and came back the next day. Why not bring a camcorder along?
What does this comment have to do with OP?
Not just one thread.
ANTEC '97 Conference Proceedings, CRC Press, pages 1310-1313.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/SPE_ANTEC_1997_Proceedi...
The thread is based on a conference talk and journal publication that preceded it.
The reason this particular case hasn't been reproduced is just because it has no practical application, requires a lot of equipment, requires the equipment to be intentionally improperly operated risking damage or injury, and it's extremely expensive to test.
Nobody is going to willingly tool up an environment capable of running a mile of 20 foot wide PP film at a thousand feet per minute, then purposely ungrounding the equipment, and run it at 100+ F and 95+ % humidity for hours, days, or weeks. Just setting it up would cost millions of dollars and running it may cost millions more.