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SOHO Strikes Back
Nick Lightfoot writes "As seen on /. several days ago, Euroseti is holding a conference to show off it's collection of pictures of 'UFOs' taken by SOHO cameras. SOHO has released a response
page to show how a cosmic ray or other similar ccd artifact could be mistaken for a UFO, especially after the image has been enhanced. After watching Euroseti's video featuring some of the images, I was able to identify one of the 'UFO' images as a comet, and several others looked like they were just planets. Hopefully they will release some images on the web soon so I taking take a closer look at them without having to buy their £15 cd."
Only fools believe in Aliens! There's simply no such thing!
The beings which visit me regularly are from an invisible underwater colony called B'ngruk. They say they're not planning to take over earth; I don't believe them. (but the voices in my head do!)
Space Aliens... ha!
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
The fringes will never be convinced, but responses like this and Phil Plait's BadAtromy.com will help to explain to the inquiring minds who's scientific literacy isn't what it should be.
It's "whose", not "who's." You didn't mean to say "who is."
Anyway--what does it matter what someone's "scientific literacy" is? If someone wants to spend their lives on the fringes of science, knowing that their only hope of peer acceptance is extraordinary proof to back up their extraordinary claims, let them.
As for the site you horribly mis-quoted--it's as fringe as the UFO freaks. "the fields of science, skepticism, and Rational Thinking" are the kinds of words that a zealous atheist uses when they try and mix their religion and science.
It's a useful site, to be sure, but it's hardly peer-reivewed science. (For example, differences of terminology such as "Incidentally, the name of the constellation of the scorpion is Scorpius, not Scorpio. Also, the goat is Capricornus, not Capricorn. So there." really shouldn't bother anyone...)
Not really very amazing at all. UFO means unidentified. NASA probably see thousands of UFOs a day, but since they're probably just rocks or something, there's no reason to get all excited about a few objects that you found someplace where you expected you would find nothing.
/me puts on a tinfoil hat on to protect themself from the programming rays put out by the government that they learned to produce from the Du'horti that they learned from the Ma'khal that they learned from the J'dar that are really in control of us all!
Supposing this isn't some stupid scam, there's no doubt a simple explaination for what they've seen. They just probably aren't skilled enough to explain it, so their imaginations are running wild.