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floating ship - amazing image

Post by yTib » Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:50 pm

just take a look at this mind bending image taken off the cornish coast.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719
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Re: floating ship - amazing image

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:08 pm

This photo has been big news in Ireland. A murmuration of starlings in the shape of a bird.
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Post by claretgoss » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:19 pm

Being able to float is a minimum requirement for a ship, surely :D
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Post by FCBurnley » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:20 pm

Very cool pic. All over news channels here in US
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Post by Dyched » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:29 pm

claretgoss wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:19 pm
 Being able to float is a minimum requirement for a ship, surely :D
I thought the same reading the thread title. :lol:
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Re: floating ship - amazing image

Post by Redbeard » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:35 pm

I of course have seen this many a time.

It can be a bugger for aiming the gunnery... :x
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Post by TheFamilyCat » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:43 pm

yTib wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:50 pm
 just take a look at this mind bending image taken off the cornish coast.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719
Is David Blain in town?
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Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:45 pm

Redbeard wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:35 pm
 I of course have seen this many a time.

It can be a bugger for aiming the gunnery... :x

Is that during the 2nd or 3rd bottle of rum
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Post by BenWickes » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:46 pm

There was a question on QI a few years back with Stephen Fry which explained this phenomenon. He used the example of a sunset. Which although the sun was still visible to the naked eye. It had in fact long since set below the horizon.
All to do with the light bending in the air apparently.

Either that or it's being beamed up by little green men.
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Re: floating ship - amazing image

Post by Hipper » Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:22 pm

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/fabulo ... -scotland/

This link has film of it plus film of the starlings as well.

This looks like the same ship but apparently now off Banff near Aberdeen. The explanation seems different and doesn't look satisfactory as the ship seems relatively close to shore yet that would put the horizon rather high compared to the land.

There are some 'superior images' here but must of them seem inverse of the original:

https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=superio ... AEF573F3D1

There is one of a yacht that looks like our red ship. It's about fifteen rows down.
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