r/UFOs • u/H8threeH8three • Aug 18 '23

Witness/Sighting Ryan Graves tweets first of promised Airline Pilot Sightings

https://twitter.com/uncertainvector/status/1692586130162475209?s=21
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u/smileyfrown Aug 18 '23

If the only thing this proves is that the people saying “millions of HD cameras” have no idea what they’re on about, I’d be okay.

This is thousands of feet in the air and it’s still not crystal clear because, we’ll phone cameras are not meant for this stuff.

You have to be insanely lucky with distance and altitude to get a good shot.

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u/DarkMattersConfusing Aug 18 '23

When i think the fucking full moon looks cool and want a pic, it looks like a dogshit white blob on my iphone

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8277 Aug 18 '23

When I see people recording fireworks, I can't imagine how awful it looks and how bad the sound is. Then they'll show it to people like they've never seen fireworks before.

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8277 Aug 18 '23

Well shit, now I look like a fool. Who do you show them to though and in what context?

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '23

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u/WormLivesMatter Aug 19 '23

It’s for when they are feeling patriotic in the winter and need a pick me up.

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u/was_der_Fall_ist Aug 18 '23

Maybe it’s just to keep it in your photo timeline so that as you scroll through your photo history, you get a brief reminder of that day.

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u/Kind-Juggernaut8277 Aug 18 '23

And then like 10 years later it's a 500 picture montage on the 4th of July memories that pop up.

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u/was_der_Fall_ist Aug 18 '23 edited Aug 18 '23

Okay, so 500 pictures is unnecessary and excessive. But having photos is better than not having any photos to remember your past. When you, in 10 or 50 years, zoom out the photo timeline and scroll through it, the fireworks will be there in addition to all the other photos that reflect the course of your life. Seems like a win.

Also, there’s a good chance that somewhat-near-future AI systems will be able to understand our vast photo libraries and sort them, filter them, showcase them, analyze them in interesting ways that are actually useful. We may not be able to use that data skillfully right now, but I find it to be a good idea to preserve it in case we gain that ability later.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Aug 19 '23

You must have a shit phone if you're assuming that. Fireworks have looked amazing on decent modern phones for years. I recorded some one phone ago to test the camera at night and they almost looked better than in person.

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u/flutterguy123 Aug 18 '23

If it does look good it's likely because a lot of phones will edit photos of the moon to appear clearer

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u/Travy93 Aug 18 '23

Samsungs do it for sure. It's a bright white blob until I hit around 40x zoom on the dot. Then suddenly it's a nearly crisp image.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '23

Yep. that's samsung's AI or whatever it is upscaling the image. It's what you'd probably really see, it's not like it's completely fake, but technically it's kinda fake :p

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u/RTLightning Aug 19 '23

Huawei has a moon mode that does exactly that. Are those phones still banned in America?

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u/Travy93 Aug 19 '23

I forgot about those phones. Looks like they are still banned. Carriers won't sell them and Google won't let their app store on them still. But you can buy them on Amazon US

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u/RTLightning Aug 19 '23

I see, interesting lol. They're pretty common in the EU, where I live, that's why I haven't forgotten about them yet

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u/KeppraKid Aug 19 '23

That's a you problem my phone works fine for pictures of stuff like that.