mightyspaceman

mightyspaceman, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Paranormal

This morning I've basically been going down a deep rabbithole around the recent supposed MH370 #UAP footage.

For those who don't know (it's not prevalent in major news as of now) there's been some footage from 2014 which has been dug up and connected to the disappearance of the now almost legendary Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

The footage consists of two videos uploaded to a now removed youtube account. The first depicts supposed FLIR footage from a surveillance UAV of a Boeing-777 being surrounded by a set of 3 orbs, then 'teleported' or 'vaporized' from view. The second shows a satellite view of the same thing.

Now, before I continue, let me get something straight. While the concept of UAPs/UFOs intrigue me, I'm not...ya know...one of those types. I like to look at these phenomena not because I want to believe that aliens are among us and visiting earth, but because there IS something there and it's interesting whatever it turns out to be. Still, I take everything with a grain of salt, and that's part of the fun.

Anyway. There's a big discussion going on about the footage on r/UFOs - now, most of the time about half of that subreddit is, once again...that type. But with this there's been a lot of amazingly in-depth discussions and aviation experts coming forth, and something about these videos is different. Everything seems to match up with actual aviation reports, and the video itself is impeccable for it's time. If this where to be a hoax, the amount of work required for the attention to detail here would take an entire team of filmaking crew, even today. The drone rocks in the wake of the plane, the engine heating covers the bottom of the aircraft, the patterns of the orbs match up with the satellite footage.

And it lines up with the aviation report for the flight. Multiple radars detected a set of 3 anomolous 'blips' alongside the aircraft, as well as the plane itself performing manuvers that aren't even possible during a nosedive. Nearing the end of radar coverage, the plane's transponder was shut off, leaving it only detectable through active radar. 37 seconds later, radar contact was lost. This 37 second period lines up perfectly with the time the orbs appeared until the 'teleport'

Once again, take this all with a grain of salt. It could still just be an elaborate hoax. But I'm on the fence here.

For more information see the megathread: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/15p14tp/megathread_mh370_relevant_posts_regarding_mh370/

Original video: http://web.archive.org/web/20140827060121/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShapuD290K0

Sattelite video:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140827052109/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ok1A1fSzxY

mightyspaceman, 9 months ago to random

So the new laptop has a slight issue. Every now and then a sliver of the top of the screen flickers white...it has done the same on linux/KDE, windows and even a tty shell, so it's probably a hardware issue, right?

Loose screen connector maybe? I'm scared to re-connect the connector because on my old laptop it took a lot of fiddling to get it back in and working.

Thinkpad E16 Gen 1.

mightyspaceman, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to linux

How often do you have to reinstall your OS?

#linux

mightyspaceman, 1 year ago to random

About a month or two ago I stepped on my not-yet-used #ESP32 devboard. Bent the pins and caused the board to warp a little pit, but it was fairly easy to pull them back into position and I don't care much about the shape. However, the micro-USB connector would then only work some of the time.

I was just fiddling around, taking a look at the connector because I knew I would have to re-connect it. While I was doing so it came off in my hands...but luckily both the pins on the back of it and the pads of the #PCB are in good condition, which will make it a lot easier.

Considering whether I should be responsible and wait until Hobart Hackerspace tomorrow for the heatgun + experienced people or just try and solder it myself...

mightyspaceman, 10 months ago to memes

Worse than death #memes #c

mightyspaceman, 9 months ago to random

Hold on, does this mean how long until it is sent out, not how long until it is actually delivered?

mightyspaceman, 1 year ago to random

I am thinking about making an ESP32 weather station. What would be an appropriate battery to power it through the night, while also being recharged/powered by a 2.5w 5v 150x130mm solar panel in the day (also accounting for cloudy days)?

would an 800mAh LiPo be enough?

mightyspaceman, 10 months ago to generativeAI

Would it be more sensible to use 433mhz for the increased range, or 915 for the decreased interference from all the other devices using 433? (#LoRa)

mightyspaceman, 1 month ago to random

@warkolm finally getting around to completing my allsky cam. Just a quick question: I'm getting a bunch of timeout errors with the https://github.com/AllskyTeam/allsky codebase. Apparently it's quite common for ASI120s. Did you have any issues and if so, what was the fix?

mightyspaceman, 8 months ago to RaspberryPi

Planning on making a skywatching pi using the HQ cam and a 180° fisheye lens. Intend to contribute to the global meteor network, but also try some experiments of my own with opencv and things.

#raspberrypi #space #astronomy #diy #electronics #globalmeteornetwork

mightyspaceman, 8 months ago to Astronomy

Just saw what looked to be a satellite, but it appeared to resemble two very closely packed dots instead of one. Like maybe twice the width apart than the xamidimura constellation. Checked, ISS isn't due to pass over for another half an hour, and it's on the other half of the sky.

Two craft undergoing rendezvous maybe? it was certainly something in orbit because it was going in a straight line at a constant speed. Probably a little slower than the ISS.

Roughly 6:14pm AEST, Hobart TAS, going south-westerly to north-westerly.

#astronomy #sattelite #spotting #iss #tasmania #space #spaceexploration

mightyspaceman, 9 months ago to Electronics

Would using a regular hotplate (like one used for cooking) work well for custom #PCB SMD reflow? These kinds of things #electronics

mightyspaceman, 1 year ago to random

Aliexpress isn't very...express

mightyspaceman, 11 months ago to random

I have a school project due tomorrow involving controlling a heater to heat a room based on electricity prices/inside temp

I was originally going to use a switching mechanism to actuate the switch using a stepper motor but...that did not work. And there is no time left to get it working.

So I need to improvise to get it working...and I know exactly how to do it, it's just going outside the rules a bit. Instead of flipping a switch on the heater, I want to use a relay to directly control the input current. However, I've never worked with mains voltage (I know how it works, but still) and we were told not to do anything with it when the project started.

Do you think it's worth going out and buying a relay, then making an ESP-controlled power socket?

mightyspaceman, 8 months ago to Astronomy

Long story short, I've been noticing these short flashes in the sky, almost like a camera flash from high up. They're really bright, like brighter than venus or even a plane in the distance, and flash for a fraction of a second. As I said, just like a camera flash from a kilometre away. Usually they'll flash with a period of 10-30 seconds for a few times (or maybe I just didn't watch for long enough), and seem to drift a small amount. Can't quite tell between the flashes if it is a straight line or not. There are countless other people who have seen them too.

My suspicion: a high-altitude sattelite or piece of space debris rolling over and catching the sun. The only problem with this is that it seems way too bright for that. Can't be an iridium flare because those grow brighter and then darker over about 15 seconds, they aren't just a flash.

To the point, are there any people willing to act as a secondary observer so as to triangulate the altitude? then it would be a simple matter of looking for passes of tracked objects at the time and see if any match. I am in tasmania, aus, so needing someone in mainland australia, the higher up the better (for more accuracy). Would need to set up some form of camera to observe it, higher the fov the better to capture more of the sky, and mounted on a levelled surface/tripod.

Here are two videos I found that capture exactly what I saw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1_7GMYR58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6NRwkbuMp0

#astronomy #sky #uap #australia

mightyspaceman, 10 months ago to HollowKnight

Making a metroidvania-style thing in #cplusplus and #SDL2 inspired by #hollowknight. Don't know how far it'll go, but as linus torvalds once said, "This'll just be a small project, not anything big like the other contenders (or something like that)"

Currently finishing off a HK-style character controller system. It looks jaggedy, but I know that's just because of the lack of any animations, so the next step will be to integrate spritesheets and such. Then level elements and a loading system.

mightyspaceman, 10 months ago to random

As a species, we're probably f*cked.

mightyspaceman, 7 months ago to random

Goodies for a #pwnagotchi on the way

mightyspaceman, 11 months ago to random

I am in dire need of a new laptop.

Maybe I could save for a framework...

mightyspaceman, 1 month ago to Tasmania

Was just out for a night walk. I can't tell if my eyes are playing tricks, but I felt like I could see short flickers in the city light haze reflected off the air; kept walking, it seemed like it was happening in the streetlights too. Could there be something happening with the power grid?

#hobart #tasmania #powergrid #electricity

mightyspaceman, 1 month ago to hamradio

Receiving from the ISS shouldn't need a yagi, right?

#radio #iss #hamradio

mightyspaceman, 8 months ago to random

Think I might have just seen an iridium flare. That thing was bright...like brighter than venus or the ISS.

pretty cool

mightyspaceman, 10 months ago to Paranormal

Not getting conspiratorial but...at this point I think #UAP evidence has just been getting stronger and stronger. I am a believer that extraterrestrial life exists somewhere in the universe, probably just microbes, but I would never think that there would be aliens HERE, on earth...the distances are just too huge. Lately I've been questioning that more and more though...and the fact the the US government is beginning to take this seriously is just crazy to me. It means that all of the historical reports...or at least, a fraction of them have a whole other level of reputability now.

take the classic tic tac case. Whatever these things are...they are physical. We know that, because of the multiple accounts of radar sightings, distant visuals and actual encounters with navy aircraft...and actual footage. And the characteristics that they show mean that whether it be extraterrestrial or made by another some other country or whatever, either way...it's just crazy. Right outside our realm of understanding. Things travelling from the top of the atmosphere to sea level in seconds, and showing up as completely cold on thermal cameras...

mightyspaceman, 10 months ago to random

Got a pretty big peice of solder on my finger today...seems to be fine though 🤷‍♂️

mightyspaceman, 18 days ago to keyboard

Thinking about making a split keyboard. I don't really have the skills to design one so I'll just get something from online, but I think they're really cool nonetheless.

Anyone have any recommendations of designs?

#splitkeyboard #keyboard #electronics