01-23-2009, 11:00 PM
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Has lived the dream!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home...
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Originally Posted by photon
Lol no, "rods" are just bugs that look that way when filmed on camera at a given range of speed and proximity to the camera etc.
So the rod during Obama's Inauguration is probably just a bug like lots of people said.
Just found it interesting that there was actually a show on history channel for this.
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Well yeah, that was what I was assuming, was just going along with the argument to find out more. I was actually the first one on the thread to say it looked like a bug, lol. 
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01-24-2009, 10:42 AM
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#42
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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
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Either that or the site for the gay stip bar in Roswell.
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01-24-2009, 01:42 PM
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#43
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Looks incredibly fake.
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01-24-2009, 02:03 PM
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#44
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Norm!
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You'll thank this guy and me when you avoid the mandatory new prison welcome and probing at the alien prison camp.
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01-24-2009, 02:15 PM
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#45
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Just watched the "documentary" from the history channel, it was painful credulous schlock but they ultimately did talk to some rational people and generated perfect "rod" shots in front of a normal camera / high speed camera setup and you can clearly see a rod in the normal camera, and you can clearly see a bug flapping its wings in the high speed camera.
Basically they stretched a 5 minute "how'd they do that" video into an hour by talking to rod researchers all over the world, giving them their 50 minutes of fame, building models and putting them into wind tunnels, etc etc, and then added the 5 minutes of reality at the end.
Yay education?
Save me mythbusters, you're my only hope.
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01-24-2009, 02:51 PM
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#46
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: beautiful calgary alberta
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i dont think anyone would have had a chance to notice it, it went too fast
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01-24-2009, 03:13 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Ever been to an airshow and had a plane zip by 250 feet overhead at 500km/h? You notice.
No one noticed it because it was a bug in front of the camera.
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But certainty is an absurd one.
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01-24-2009, 05:08 PM
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#48
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In Rod we Trust!
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01-24-2009, 05:23 PM
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#49
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Lol no, "rods" are just bugs that look that way when filmed on camera at a given range of speed and proximity to the camera etc.
So the rod during Obama's Inauguration is probably just a bug like lots of people said.
Just found it interesting that there was actually a show on history channel for this.
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Heard about rods one sleepless night a few years on Coast to Coast AM. We'd rip the individual leaves off of palm fronds, throw them around and call them "rods". Lost car keys? The rods moved them. Late for work? Rods screwed up the alarm clock. We had lots of fun with that!
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01-25-2009, 12:30 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Elbows Up!!
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this explains the rod getting the award on the simpsons.
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01-25-2009, 01:43 AM
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#51
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Lifetime Suspension
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Cue in the Larry King alien special any day now.
Look..It's a bird, it's a bug, Its a plane..no it's super lint blowing by the lense.
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01-25-2009, 08:11 AM
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#52
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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I for one welcome our new Rod Overlords 
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01-25-2009, 08:33 AM
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Retired
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Originally Posted by missdpuck
I for one welcome our new Rod Overlords |
I'll show you a rod overlord.
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01-25-2009, 08:43 AM
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#54
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaramonLS
I'll show you a rod overlord.
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That's so funny. The instant I read that I turned red. Serious 
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01-25-2009, 02:44 PM
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#55
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Rods
A rod is an insect caught in the act of flying by a video camera. Some hoaxers or very imaginative people have been maintaining that rods are actually some sort of unknown life form of alien origin
http://skepdic.com/rods.html
Here is a quick podcast about them.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4004#
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01-28-2009, 12:35 PM
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#56
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Back in Calgary
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haha everyone wanted to see history
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