Lol, the MAXIMUM difference this would mean (the difference between being 0 miles from the drone and literally half the world away) would be 67 milliseconds.

That's a cool idea, but I have to imagine landing one aircraft on another aircraft would be pretty difficult (although it might not be too dissimilar from docking for mid-air fueling). However, doesn't putting the done pilot that close to the action kind of negate the advantage of remote operations?

They could always employ alternative recruitment methods:

Ooooh oooh! They used my Fermi pulsar app :) I'm famous!

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/…

I can tell you first hand that commcast abso-fucking-lutely deserves to be on that list

The only (incredibly long shot) possibility for a presidential pardon is for Obama to give it to him on his last day in office. Presidents often do some serious pardoning at the end of their 2nd term.

The CCD chip in most cameras is actually already able to detect parts of the IR spectrum. You can have fun confirming this with your TV's IR remote:

Point your TV remote at your phone's camera
Press a button on your remote to send a command over IR
Watch the light flicker on your cell phones screen, even though you can't…

If only he had shot for the head...it would have been a much shorter movie. Oh wait, I guess that would have been bad for me.

I was very unsatisfied that her character didn't die at the end, I definitely thought she deserved to as much as the other guy.

Good decision; your montage of blurry videos set to spooky music was, after all, the height of scientific rigor.

Hey, you are the one posting all the images and insulting me with unfounded allegations of trolling; if anyone here is a troll it's unquestionably you. Apparently, your definition of troll is anyone who disagrees with you.

While I don't know that an official study has been published on the subject, XKCD did a fairly…

Sorry, at first I misread your post and thought it was a comparison between years and months instead of years and decades, hence the 240% increase.

No, I am not trolling; but what I am trying to point out is that even though there is some improvement in the images in your montage (even assuming none of them are hoaxes) there is not enough improvement to account for the improvement in cameras; I don't agree that the images are twice as clear on average. You cited…

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Ok, you clearly aren't reading my posts very carefully; because you keep misrepresenting them. The image quality of a cell phone camera today versus a TV camera from the 1970's should be at least twice as good. The number of sightings that cannot be explained as known phenomenon should increase by millions of percent.…

Hmmm, you keep making qualitative statements and avoiding my quantitative questions. Are the images twice as well resolved? Have the number of incidents (that can't be easily explained or shown to be hoaxes) increased by millions of percent? I would say the answer to both is no. If you really place stock on what Dr.…

Ok, to be more clear: I acknowledge that the overall quality of the video has improved between the 1970's and now; but it seems to me that the clarity of the UFOs themselves have not increased at all between the 1970's and now. The UFOs are just as blurry now as they were in the 1970's; when (if resolution was the…

Looks like I lost your interest here; so thanks for keeping the discourse civil.

Hmmm, I think you might be confusing the quality of the video itself with the quality of the UFO in that video. Do you really think the resolution of the UFOs themselves are more than double what they were in the 1970's?

Lol, oh man, you walked right into this one...

If higher resolution cameras becoming more commonplace could lead to better images, why haven't the quality of UFO images and video dramatically increased over the last 20 years while camera quality and ubiquity was exploding?