Scottish Space Launch.

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"Prime utilises bio-propane, a clean-burning, renewable fuel that cuts carbon emissions by 90 percent compared to traditional hydrocarbon fuels."

I like that and it's the first time I've heard of a clean launcher.
 
Bick said:
Perhaps this endevour will finally clear up the mystery of the Solway Firth Spaceman...

www.bbc.com

The mystery of the Solway Spaceman

It is 50 years since Jim Templeton's "Solway Spaceman" photo made global headlines, but are we any closer to identifying what he pictured behind his daughter?
www.bbc.com
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Maybe ten or eleven years ago we went there, me and two workmates. (We were supposed to be collecting some fancy metal brackets a couple of miles away)

We used the photo to locate, as close as we could determine, the place and angle of the picture.

Then we took turns posing there and photo bombed each other while wearing a massive white T-shirt.
We couldn't really duplicate the oddness of that thing in the background.
.Sadly, I lost my photos when a memory card failed.
 
dannymcg said:
Maybe ten or eleven years ago we went there, me and two workmates. (We were supposed to be collecting some fancy metal brackets a couple of miles away)

We used the photo to locate, as close as we could determine, the place and angle of the picture.

Then we took turns posing there and photo bombed each other while wearing a massive white T-shirt.
We couldn't really duplicate the oddness of that thing in the background.
.Sadly, I lost my photos when a memory card failed.
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It's clearly the man's wife (she was there with the other two on the day and was wearing a bright dress. She is clearly standing with her back to the photographer and looking the other way, the bend in the elbow is clear when you think about it.) She's a fair bit back, so I'd guess that because the camera isn't focused on her it helps smudge her image and change its colour. Possibly other reasons such as over-exposure, as the article states was also involved.

The reason the man states that he did not see anything when he took the shot is that he is talking about seeing something 'strange' and 'otherworldy'. His wife was something normal when he took the picture and so his brain didn't register it as being in the piccy. It's like the pictures of 'saucers' that turn out to be pictures of flying birds divebombing the photo. They also say they did not notice anything abnormal taking the picture. Yeah, you saw birds flying about - all pretty normal!
 
I prefer to think it’s a spaceman, seen through the gauzy veil of shifted time, who was on practice manoeuvres on a hill in Solway for the announced Scottish rocket launch in 2019. There’s a short story there...
 
I remember seeing an article on the Solway Spaceman where they toned down the brightness so that normal colours returned, and the mysterious figure becomes easily discernible as the back of a woman's head, wearing a headscarf.
 
Bick said:
Where’s the magic and mystery in that?
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Plenty of that out there if you go looking for it. The whole universe is far more mystery than boring.

Unfortuntely a lot of the 'classic' weird photos are clearly hoaxes, double exposures or people not being aware of what they are doing as above ;)
 
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