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(Telegraph) Weird A silent streetlight with pulsating lights and five extended tendrils filmed hovering over protesters in Russia   (telegraph.co.uk) divider line 94
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chiett [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 06:53:57 PM
Helicopter
 
Bagelox-99
2011-12-12 08:01:06 PM
Time to release the flying penises!
 
Rincewind53 [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 08:04:49 PM
Um, very clear that is a helicopter, video-taped by a camera whose frame-rate is in sync with the rotors and therefore making them appear to stand still. We've had tons of videos on that phenomenon.
 
cryinoutloud
2011-12-12 08:31:46 PM
Nobody reads the freaking article anymore.

Clearly not a helicopter,

CLEARLY. NOT A HELICOPTER.

/it's a lightning bug.
 
Tarkus [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 08:35:32 PM
varlamov.me
 
cretinbob [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 08:45:03 PM
 
basemetal [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 09:15:56 PM
Meh, some kind of surveillance drone.
 
give me doughnuts [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 09:18:03 PM
Everybody look up and point, so the police drone can get a clear picture of your faces.
 
Indolent [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 09:33:00 PM
cryinoutloud: Nobody reads the freaking article anymore.

Clearly not a helicopter,

CLEARLY. NOT A HELICOPTER.

/it's a lightning bug.

It's obviously light reflecting off of swamp gas and illuminating the flying spagetti monster.
 
ArkAngel [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 09:55:40 PM
Cthulight?
 
Le Geno Vert
2011-12-12 10:11:14 PM
www.retronaut.co

are you sure it's not a deformed skull?
 
shanrick [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 10:37:34 PM
It's a xenomorph.
 
Indolent [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 10:37:46 PM
Le Geno Vert: [www.retronaut.co image 520x355]

are you sure it's not a deformed skull?

No resemblence whatsoever.

surferjerry.com
 
Makh [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 10:47:55 PM
Hovering military drone. We have 'em too, they look more donut like.
 
croesius
2011-12-12 10:48:18 PM
Le Geno Vert: [www.retronaut.co image 520x355]

are you sure it's not a deformed skull?

Jesus Diaz banned this user and moved this thread to #youmad? (see Community Policy)
 
jokker
2011-12-12 11:05:56 PM
Can someone post a pic here? The nyt mobile site isn't giving me an article to read
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:06:45 PM
cretinbob: Because only the United States uses drones to spy on their citizens.....derp

(new window)

Betcha Russia's been doing this long before we even had the tech. Comrade Stalin would have approved.
 
Smeggy Smurf
2011-12-12 11:07:30 PM
It's the goddamned batman
 
p4p3rm4t3
2011-12-12 11:08:17 PM
jokker: Can someone post a pic here? The nyt mobile site isn't giving me an article to read

roger that...

img542.imageshack.us
 
PsiChick [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:08:38 PM
...That is one farking weird-ass drone.
 
Retractable Weeners
2011-12-12 11:09:15 PM
"Cheese!"
 
jingks
2011-12-12 11:09:40 PM
PsiChick: ...That is one farking weird ass-drone.

Maybe it is aliens!
 
erewhon
2011-12-12 11:10:54 PM
Rincewind53: Um, very clear that is a helicopter, video-taped by a camera whose frame-rate is in sync with the rotors and therefore making them appear to stand still. We've had tons of videos on that phenomenon.

Yeah, that was my impression too. Not seeing the usual blade drift though. Generally, when a helicopter maneuvers, even a little, the sync will be lost momentarily and the blades will appear to either spin a few times or twist to a new position.
 
wildcardjack
2011-12-12 11:11:12 PM
Yawn... Now the aliens can come and go as they please, we've managed to make the toys look like their ships.
 
farkingismybusiness
2011-12-12 11:11:48 PM
I'm not saying it's a played out meme, but, arrow in the knee.
 
NEWJERSEYFARKTAG
2011-12-12 11:12:32 PM
Rincewind53: Um, very clear that is a helicopter, video-taped by a camera whose frame-rate is in sync with the rotors and therefore making them appear to stand still. We've had tons of videos on that phenomenon.

Bingo.
 
AppleOptionEsc
2011-12-12 11:14:35 PM
How to tell if you see a Plane, a drone, or aliens.

A plane looks like a plane.

Any drone not from an invading country will still use the white and red navigational lights to make sure other flying things don't hit it.

Hold my beer and grab my shotgun.
 
rebelyell2006
2011-12-12 11:14:41 PM
Indolent: Le Geno Vert: [www.retronaut.co image 520x355]

are you sure it's not a deformed skull?

No resemblence whatsoever.

[surferjerry.com image 400x409]

2 things:
1. Le Geno Vert's image is an image of a nuclear bomb, milliseconds after the bomb detonates.
2. Your image is a skull that was damaged or otherwise deformed over time, losing much of the facial structure. Such deformed children exist today and are featured on "reality TV".

If you want to see freaky, look at the skulls of children before they lose their juvenile set of teeth. Two sets of teeth in one jaw. Farking weird.
 
FlippityFlap
2011-12-12 11:17:25 PM
Rincewind53


Unless the Russians have radically redesigned their choppers, that is a drone of some sort. It does, in fact, look like the camera drone posted up earlier..
 
Millions_Knives
2011-12-12 11:17:27 PM
Where's the Ancient Aliens guy?
 
bk3k
2011-12-12 11:17:39 PM
I for one welcome our new Ur Quan Masters
images.wikia.com
 
PsiChick [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:18:49 PM
jingks: PsiChick: ...That is one farking weird ass-drone.

Maybe it is aliens!

If we ever did see aliens, it would probably be a) either as a completely translucent image, because they're using wormholes or other phenomenon to travel, b) as spaceships accidentally getting a bit too close to Earth, or c) as a formal acknowledgement by an alien government we exist.

Unless we find 'em, they aren't likely to come to us.
 
untaken_name
2011-12-12 11:20:33 PM
Enhanced law enforcement blow-up of one of the stills:

www.rotaryaction.com
 
Summer Glau's Love Slave
2011-12-12 11:21:05 PM
troll.me

/I want to believe, Comrade.
 
cretinbob [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:21:22 PM
Gyrfalcon: cretinbob: Because only the United States uses drones to spy on their citizens.....derp

(new window)

Betcha Russia's been doing this long before we even had the tech. Comrade Stalin would have approved.

yep
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:22:39 PM
Summer Glau's Love Slave: [troll.me image 304x266]

/I want to believe, Comrade.

Believe anyone besides Putin will be President, and you'll see more aliens than you ever wanted to see, tovarich.
 
ViralMonkey
2011-12-12 11:24:34 PM
cryinoutloud: Nobody reads the freaking article anymore.

Clearly not a helicopter,

CLEARLY. NOT A HELICOPTER.



Because we should totally take that as gospel.
I saw someone once argue for quite some time that a photo clearly wasn't of a streetlight
 
austin_millbarge
2011-12-12 11:29:18 PM
i235.photobucket.com
 
jingks
2011-12-12 11:30:14 PM
ViralMonkey: cryinoutloud: Nobody reads the freaking article anymore.

Clearly not a helicopter,

CLEARLY. NOT A HELICOPTER.

Because we should totally take that as gospel.
I saw someone once argue for quite some time that a photo clearly wasn't of a streetlight

Was it in an article? NOPE! False analogy!
 
retarded [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:32:02 PM
Sir, is this a stand-up fight, or a bug hunt?
 
Le Geno Vert
2011-12-12 11:32:13 PM
Do deformed rabbit. That's my favorite.
 
foxyshadis
2011-12-12 11:33:03 PM
IT'S A METROID! GET SHIGIERU MIYAMOTO ON THE PHONE AT ONCE, WE MUST REACH SAMUS!!
 
nytmare
2011-12-12 11:33:43 PM
mutecitygaming.com
 
Voiceofreason01
2011-12-12 11:34:55 PM
chiett: Helicopter

I had a professor once who designed a UAV that looked a lot like that thing
 
bigdanc
2011-12-12 11:37:14 PM
bk3k: I for one welcome our new Ur Quan Masters
[images.wikia.com image 485x213]


can we get a sequel plox?

I'd very much like to go back to the *slippery place*.

GO! GO!
INTRUDER!

/as long as the orz make a return
 
cryinoutloud
2011-12-12 11:38:57 PM
jingks:
Was it in an article? NOPE! False analogy!

That's right. It was some Farker, not a respected newspaper full of journalism and facts and things. I trust the Telegraph because they have that fancy logo and are clearly old and like, tradishional. And from Europe--those people have been around a long time, and they've probably seen more UFOs than Americans have.

You just have to use your head. .
 
buckler [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:39:31 PM
Looks like a helicopter or hovering drone. The port and starboard running lights indicate it's, uh, "Earth-made".
 
CygnusDarius [TotalFark]
2011-12-12 11:40:36 PM
It's the light of the Emperor, shining on our dark and ignorant lives.
 
Loucifer
2011-12-12 11:41:18 PM
That is obviously a standard security droid manufactured by the Corvatti Corporation on Halloran V.
 
jmadisonbiii
2011-12-12 11:42:34 PM
www.wired.com

Trying to see where to send the gas
 
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