A levitating ship

dreadnut · Mar 5, 2021

How cool is this?

Photos appear to show a ship hovering over the water

▶ Watch Video: Optical illusion makes huge ship appear to float A man says he was "stunned" to look out to sea from a village in Cornwall, in southwest England, and see a giant ship seemingly suspended in mid-air over the water. It wasn't his eyes deceiving him, but a rare weather phenomenon...

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GGJaguar · Mar 5, 2021

Superior mirage? That's just a cover up for the real reason -- aliens.

Opsimath · Mar 5, 2021

X-Files. "I want to believe."

GAD · Mar 5, 2021

That's cool.

matsickma · Mar 5, 2021

Physics. More often quoted these days as "Science". Not the same but close enough!

Usually a better answer than jumping to the paranormal!

But then you would have to appreciate how much you don't know which is much harder than claiming what you do know.

(I find my EE education more and more important not as an engineer but as a person living in a world of massive information bombardment. No Comment on the quality of information available.)

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walrus · Mar 5, 2021

Very cool! That would blow my mind if I saw that in person!

walrus

Rebosbro · Mar 5, 2021

Flashback

F312 · Mar 5, 2021

...and this,

Ralph

dreadnut · Mar 5, 2021

Then they had to call the HazMat team to dispose of all that mercury!

You old guys like me - remember when we used to play with mercury in science class? Let it roll around in our hands then let it drop on the floor, and it would explode into a thousand little beads.

Last year, some kid did this at a local middle school; they shut down the school, sent everybody home, and called in the HazMat Team.

Opsimath · Mar 5, 2021

dreadnut said:
Then they had to call the HazMat team to dispose of all that mercury!

You old guys like me - remember when we used to play with mercury in science class? Let it roll around in our hands then let it drop on the floor, and it would explode into a thousand little beads.

Last year, some kid did this at a local middle school; they shut down the school, sent everybody home, and called in the HazMat Team.

Oh my word. Seriously? Isn't it true that mercury was used in those silver fillings many of us sport from "ye olden days"? I'm beginning to think they just don't make kids as tough as they used to.

Rebosbro · Mar 5, 2021

dreadnut said:
Then they had to call the HazMat team to dispose of all that mercury!

You old guys like me - remember when we used to play with mercury in science class? Let it roll around in our hands then let it drop on the floor, and it would explode into a thousand little beads.

Last year, some kid did this at a local middle school; they shut down the school, sent everybody home, and called in the HazMat Team.

Yes! SO much fun! The good old days. I made Dinitroglycerine in high school. It made a huge fire ball when you put a drop on a bunson burner. We had a really cool ex collage prof and he let us do really cool(dangerous) stuff. Private school has good points!

dreadnut · Mar 5, 2021

Yeah, and we used asbestos infused screens over the bunsen burners. I'm surprised we're all still alive.

F312 · Mar 5, 2021

Wasn't it mercury that would shine up your coins? The good old bad old happy days.

Ralph

dreadnut · Mar 5, 2021

In the olden days, hatmakers used mercurous nitrate to cure their felt hats. "That's where the term "Mad as a hatter" came from; they were poisoned by the mercury.

Prince of Darkness · Mar 6, 2021

Funnily enough, a few days before that photo appeared, this photo was taken just around the coast from me, at Banff.

Nuuska · Mar 6, 2021

Opsimath said:
... I'm beginning to think they just don't make kids as tough as they used to.

While this is a family friendly forum - I'm not going to ask you the specific "how to" questions . . .

F312 · Mar 6, 2021

I may have to start looking up.

Ralph

GAD · Mar 10, 2021

Finally found a good pic explaining this phenomenon from, that bastion of scientific thought, The Guardian.

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dreadnut · Mar 10, 2021

There have also been reports of folks on our side of Lake Michigan being able to see the Chicago sky;line from time to time due to the same phenomenon.

Guildedagain · Mar 10, 2021

Part of the Philadelphia experiment.

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