08-21-2024, 07:44 AM
(08-21-2024, 06:40 AM)Waterglass Wrote: I believe that that video is what I sent to NASA. They confirmed they received it but never answered my question.
That's not a surprise, that's why I always try to send my emails to people relevant to what I want to know and, if possible, as high up as possible, as I found that scientists, even when in high positions, like to answer questions about their field of study.
Public relations and the like are more likely to answer some news outlet than a common citizen.
Quote:So , if it was the Moon why didn't they simply write back?
They probably didn't care.
If the camera wasn't pointing in the direction of the Moon's rising position on that day then it wasn't the Moon, but you said the video compresses 1 hour and 15 minutes into 25 seconds, so the 7 seconds in which we see that light correspond to more or less 24 minutes. The Moon moves at a speed of 360º in 24 hours (1440 minutes), so in 24 minutes it would travel 1/60 of that, 6º. In average, the width of the three middle fingers in hour hands corresponds to 5º when we have the arm extended, so if the camera was pointing East and the angular distance travelled by that light is close to the three middle fingers with the extended arm, it's highly likely it was the Moon.
If any of the above is not true then it was not the Moon.
Quote:The Moon should not have tripped the neighbors security light.
That's true, but you are assuming that light tripped your neighbours' security light, and you don't have any way of knowing that, right?
Quote:I also had another video of that ball of light along, beneath and in front of my driveway block wall which is made of concrete landscape blocks. Huh?
How can you know that it was the same light?
Being too sure about things we do not really know is a great way of being wrong.