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Now that everyone carries a phone with a camera pretty much 24/7 is there a lot more evidence of supernatural events being recorded? ?
12 Answers
- Jeffrey KLv 77 months ago
There is still no evidence of supernatural events at all, even with cameras everywhere. Makes you wonder why. Maybe there are no paranormal events.
- Obi Wan KnievelLv 77 months ago
You'd think so, but no. There's a lot more photo and video 'footage' being presented, but that doesn't count as evidence.
Phone cameras, even the really expensive models, are just as easy to fool as old school cameras. And with all the user-friendly editing apps available to everyone, making up 'proof' of paranormal activity is easier than it's ever been.
There is a cold hard rule amongst serious paranormal researchers that goes like this: If a piece of evidence can be faked, it can't be accepted as real. Even if you took a crystal clear photograph of a real live ghost / bigfoot / space alien / whatever, it won't be accepted. That's because I, with zero photography and editing skills, could fake the same thing in 5 minutes and it would look just as good.
- ?Lv 58 months ago
No, there is not! If there actually were any supernatural-paranormal events, there would be myriads more evidence, but there is not. This fact is evidence against supernatural events. RWRossum is wrong. He is reading hoaxes, rather than genuine Science. Nobel Prize winner in Physics Edward M. Purcell said, "Interstellar travel is preposterous!" Interstellar distances are so vast that they cannot be overcome in feasible time periods. As the speed of matter increases, its mass increases exponentially. I have tried the Lorentz equations for various speeds. At the speed of light, matter's mass becomes infinite. Also, excessive acceleration kills living things. A few years ago, I calculated that it would require 78,000 years for our swiftest rockets to reach the nearest planet outside our own Solar System. The True Believers say advanced technology can magically solve all the problems involved in interstellar travel. Magical Thinking is illogical. They assume that new discoveries will open the doors to new possibilities, but new discoveries may close doors rather than open them. Interstellar travel was easy in the Newtonian Universe but impossible in the later modified Einsteinian Universe. Matter can never travel rapidly enough to overcome the vast interstellar distances in practical time periods. Astronomer Sebastian von Hoerner says the fuel demands for interstellar travel can never be met. If it could ever be possible to harness hydrogen fusion to propel spaceships, we would need a mass of hydrogen 1,600,000,000 times the mass of the spaceship for accelerating the spaceship on its way and decelerating it when it nears its target. Of course, we would need a huge container for this hydrogen fuel and accelerate it as well as the spaceship. That means much more fuel is demanded in an infinite progression. If someone could ever harness matter-antimatter reaction to propel a spaceship, we would need a mass of antimatter 40,000 times the size of the spaceship plus an equal quantity of matter to react with it. That also involves infinite progression. We can never have an infinite fuel supply. Such people as RWRossum have not studied Science to 1/100th the depth I have. Tom knows more Science than RWRossum, but he assumes too much. There is no logical reason to think that unsupported tales are true. Some of my relatives claimed they saw ghosts. I investigated and occasionally discovered what they actually saw, and it was never ghosts. Tom needs to learn that. So supposed "supernatural events" are all explained as credible and often gullible people mistaking natural items for supernatural ones, hallucinations, dreams, delusions and hoaxes.
- Anonymous8 months ago
i don't understand why people are being so skeptic and narrow minded.
the term 'super natural' implies just. Its 'beyond' natural, it is currently defying explanation as to why/who/what and is beyond the ordinary and explainable.
If something therefore is documented, ideally in video footage it has to get analyzed first.
over 98% of these things most likely get explained through our understanding of physics/chemistry/biology and the interactions of entities and systems. This is why science has allowed us to attain such an advanced understanding of life and our surroundings and even beyond to some extent.
We have not been able to explain a select few 'incidents' that have occurred to date. We have 'unexplained' photographs so to speak, but because they are documented as stills, they are either dismissed or we take a guess as to what could have caused what we see through rationalizing scientifically.
Even things we try to debunk and explain, are 'partial' explanations using theories and probability and deduced rationalizations.
Since some documented events were caught on video, many people have said 'it was most likely caused by...it is likely that this is happening possibly due to...'
it still leaves a big '?' though even in the most diehard scientists mind, surely. the '?' is due to not being 100% certain what they claim, is the absolute and total truth and explanation of what they see.
take for instance a 1985 wedding I attended and a strange ghostly apparition of a couple dressed in 1920's attire sitting adjacent to our table.
I am sure there are scientists who may have 'the answer' but then how much of their answer is from guess work and how much is tested, measured anlalyticaly deduced work ?
when you pause and freeze each frame per second and even try to break down in 10ths of seconds, you will notice a bright light , like some sort of 'bang' - as if at that moment two timelines crossed or time travel occurred, which makes the second theory more creepy since it means somebody from the 1920's had either discovered time travel or were subjects of time travel. As I said, creepy.
there's a lot of stuff we cannot explain. Lets leave it at that, and let us not try to assume we have ALL the answers when really, nobody does.
There is stuff we cannot 100% completely account for even with science.
- Anonymous8 months ago
No, there certainly is not. If all those supernatural and paranormal events actually occurred, there were would be many photographs of them. The fact that there is not is evidence against such rubbish. RW ROSSUM is wrong. Some scientist have proved that interstellar travel is not feasible.
- Gary KLv 78 months ago
No there is not. Photos and videos do not constitute evidence of supernatural events anyway. There is no evidence of anything supernatural, period.
EDIT: Unexplained does not equal supernatural.
- TomLv 78 months ago
There is NO supernatural, as such, only the NATURAL we can't explain yet-----These events may be recorded, and may indeed be real, but they are of a nature that can be easily FAKED with today's technology---so is not taken seriously.
- RWPossumLv 78 months ago
EDIT - Scientists have proved that GOING BACK AND FORTH between solar systems is impossible. Please read my answer.
Actually, the number of alien abduction reports has plummeted, and it's interesting that this has coincided with the proliferation of smart phones. On the other hand, the cameras aboard Navy jet fighters are catching some very strange things. Video - a 28-minute analysis by an interested skeptic who says that he finds it hard to dismiss this as something mundane.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpeSpA3e56A&t=36sO... of the alien spacecraft idea say that it's impossible for a spacecraft to travel from one solar system to another. That is not true. Scientists say that even with present-day technology it would be possible to send a large colony with its own ecosystem inhabiting a colossal spacecraft, such as Arthur C. Clark's Rama, to another solar system, so that children or grandchildren of the original travelers could reach the other solar system. One idea is using an asteroid as a spacecraft. Proponents of the alien spacecraft idea say that aliens could have colonized a place in our solar system, perhaps in the distant past.
It should be noted that if aliens have entered our solar system, they might have done it by way of machines, just as we have sent unmanned space probes to planets. The easiest way to do this is with a large number of small crafts instead of one big craft. Force equals mass times acceleration. Compare the way Apollo-Saturn looked when it took off with a mortar round or a 4th of July skyrocket.
We have no reason to assume that spacecrafts sighted by Navy pilots have life forms inside them.
- Dr. NGLv 78 months ago
One would think so, especially with the high-quality cameras and video recorders in smartphones these days. Some of the high-end phones are motion picture quality and even most low-end smartphones have 1080HD. Despite that, there has been no quality evidence taken with any of the millions of cameras out there. Look at the quality of cell phone camera photos and tell us why we can't get Bigfoot, ghosts, and UFOs on phones. Aside from the obvious.
- LANLv 78 months ago
Nope. There are a lot more people posting stupid faked photos trying to prove it though.