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Re: Ghost city appears above Xin'an River
IT looks like any other city skyline with skyscrapers, a few mountains and trees - except it isn't real.
The giant mirage appeared across the skyline near in East China earlier this month after heavy rainfall and humid conditions along the Xin’an River.
As mist settled over the river at dusk, tall buildings appeared to rise from nowhere, leading residents in nearby Huanshan City to speculate that the vision may be a "vortex" to a lost civilisation.
"It's really amazing, it looks like a scene in a movie, in a fairlyland," one resident told UK news channel ITN.
The mysterious city had vanished just as quickly as it had come.
Scientists have quashed the vortex theory and, as per usual, have a simple explanation for the incredible sight.
They believe it may have been a mirage, caused when moisture in the air becomes warmer than the temperature of the water below.
When rays of sunlight cross from the colder air into the warmer air they are refracted or bent – creating a reflection in the air that looks similar to a reflection in water.
It's a common sight for many travellers on Australian roads. But we Australians tend to see puddles of water that disappear when you get close, not entire cities floating on rivers.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-t … z1QRCC0kh5
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Mirage or vortex my ass. More likely another classified US project being tested over China.
- monkeychow
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Re: Ghost city appears above Xin'an River
Holy fuck.
I didn't realise mirages actually happened like that...I thought it was more when people had heatstroke or whatever they saw stuff that's not there.
If it was a weapon what would it be used for? Interesting idea though.
Science or Nature it shows how falliable our human senses are!
- monkeychow
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Oh come on. When it quacks like a duck...
The easiest explenation is always the right one....
It's obviously an alien conspiracy.
No one is saying it's a conspiracy. The US uses classified systems whenever it chooses to. Fuck, they used classified helicopters to catch Bin Laden. Was that a conspiracy too?
When Reagan bombed Libya, they used a classified jet at the time(F117 Stealth Fighter) to try it out. If you saw it you would have thought it was a UFO from Melmack when in fact it was just the US doing an air strike.
If it was a weapon what would it be used for? Interesting idea though.
i don't think this type of thing would even be classified as a weapon. In my opinion, would be used for propaganda and to maybe enhance the "fog of war" on enemies and possible civilians as well. Not much is known obviously on how the US is approaching this tech, but you can be sure they will maximize the benefits of all possible uses.
In the past few years, researchers in holography have been able to streamline and modernize the holographic printing process so that they can take CAD drawings or real world images and convert them into a hologram quickly. Zebra Imaging takes about 7-10 business days to process images into a print. That’s a fairly quick turn around time, and it opens up their use for a variety of purposes. One of the chief customers has been the US Army who not only has purchased more than 10,000 prints, but recently started using Zebra’s M2 imagers in the field.
Zebra has also developed a remarkable real time holographic motion display. Like a computer screen, the motion display can show you images changing over time that you can interact with. Unlike you computer screen, these images are shown in 3D and without the need for glasses. Zebra’s motion display was developed with help from DARPA, who is probably giddy over the possible military applications (picturing a battle in 3D as it evolves is right up their alley).
http://singularityhub.com/2010/12/16/3d … gn-videos/
US military research is taking place into the use of battlefield holograms to gain vital war data, it has been reported.
Rather than deploy holographic effects to confuse enemy forces, this research – which is taking place at various US sites – is exploring the potential of holograms to present battlefield information in 3-D, and the benefits these techniques could yield.
The researchers are effectively progressing technologies that would enhance the ability of US troops to collect-in mission data, plan operations and safely dispose of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), to name but three.
According to a report in the New York Times, the University of Arizona has been carrying out military holographic trials, in which a subject has been filmed, and the recording then watched at a separate location.
The technique is said to deliver a display where the image changes 30 times a minute, and it’s created via use of an array of laser cameras that capture data onto plastic. A specialised lighting system illuminates this plastic, causing the captured data to be displayed, in 3-D, holographically.
Speaking to the BBC last month, the Arizona researchers acknowledged that the technology was at an early stage, and that a faster data stream rate was needed to better portray reality.
Elsewhere, Columbia University is assessing ways in which holographic data could be transmitted online, enabling chats over the internet in which the other person appears in 3-D.
While this research continues in Columbia, the US military already uses holograms to some extent, the New York Times writes. The US Defense Department is presently drawing on Texas-based Zebra Imaging’s holographic maps which supply it with battlefield imagery, created from data that the US military provides.
Each map – which is illuminated by LEDs - costs up to $3,000 apiece and, according to Zebra itself, the same technology could also be used to assess battle damage, too. For now, holographic weapons remain undeveloped, but as this aspect of US military hologram use expands, Armed Forces International will present further News coverage.
Re: Ghost city appears above Xin'an River
I don't know man, I'm not usually a conspiracy lover, but a mirage that big, that CLEAR just seems a bit unbelievable. Certainly no more unbelievable than being the product of some of those links James posted.
Who knows, though, really.
Re: Ghost city appears above Xin'an River
This reminds me of a video this guy and his family took at a civil war battlefield. The guy was at his car when he saw a group of confederate soldiers running through the woods. He thinks its a reinactment, so he grabs his video camera and starts filming. On the film, you can see the soldiers moving up a hill. And then it dawns on the guy, these soldiers are walking a few feet off the ground. Then they vanish.
So, the discovery channel gets a hold of this and they send the video off to this scientist to see if it's a hoax. All the tests came back that it would take the budget of a hollywood film to afford the technology to fake this... And on a side note, another scientist found that the ground where these soldiers were "walking on air" had actually eroded a few feet on that hill from when that battle took place. So the scientist comes back with his findings and says that he can't find a single reason or piece of evidence that this video was faked. So, in his findings, he said it HAD to be fake, because ghosts don't exist. Nice, huh?
