UAPs as water droplet on the sensor
Posted by JamesHutchisonReal@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 7 comments
For a lot of these UAP videos (the ones that don't look like bad pixels or balloons) it just looks like a water droplet somehow worked its way onto the sensor. Seems like a good Mythbusters episode if they still do them...
Boris-_-Badenov@reddit
such a dumb name change.
calling it something else won't make anyone think you aren't a crazy kook
OrganizedPillow1@reddit
It's just a broader definition now. UFO requires that it's an object that is flying, whereas a UAP is just an unexplained phenomenon in the sky.
The_mingthing@reddit
Umm.... The last episode aired 10 years ago...
JamesHutchisonReal@reddit (OP)
Right, but didn't they have a recent web series or did someone else pick up on this sort of thing?
Or, you know, did they happen to have an episode about this?
tymp-anistam@reddit
Adam Savage has been making content in the makershphere for a decade now. The new generation of 'mythbusters' has turned to the internet as a platform. The best place I can point you to is opensauce. It's a new ish yearly convention set up by one of the 'failed mythbusters' Allen Pan and several of his cohorts (mainly setup by William Osmans crew).
If you pose this question to the opensauce community, I bet someone would take a look into it as if it were a mythbusters episode.
Malakai0013@reddit
Weird, to me the UAP videos usually just looked like a distraction from something bad happening in the world.
LuxTenebraeque@reddit
Specks of dust are also good candidates. Diffraction produces fascinating patterns in the right conditions!
And then we had the interactions of insect wings futtering, PWM regulated LED lighting and sensor readout. Feels a bit like the "cartwheels spinning backwards"-effect in old western movies, just without the clear connection to something well known.