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Weird flying bug/snake caught on my security camera.

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by TheForce, May 22, 2011.

  1. TheForce

    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    Just a weird flying bug/snake caught on my new security camera. That it all. :D

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    #1 TheForce, May 22, 2011
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    I've seen similar stuff before. Apparantly its to do with the high speed flapping of a bugs wings contradicting with the scan lines of the camera.

    So its a normal bug and not some weird alien thing unknown to science. Sorry :)
     
    #2 GrumpyCabbie, May 22, 2011
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    Loch Ness?
     
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    Either the light source is pulsed at a fairly high frequency (IR LEDs?), or the frame exposure time is very long, creating a strobe effect. So it seems that the light source is not ordinary incandescent.
     
    #5 fuzzy1, May 22, 2011
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    Rolling shutter of newer CMOS cameras.
     
    #6 Hokeysmoke, May 23, 2011
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    It's definitely an alien.
     
    #7 2k1Toaster, May 23, 2011
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    It's the start of the May 21 rapture :D
     
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    Sky fish bugrod things! . . . lol!

     
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    Did it set off your alarm?
    (It looks really cool!)
     
    #10 J5A, May 24, 2011
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