Tyler Anderson, MD

Father of 6, Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Aviation nut/pilot, storm/volcano chaser, eye surgeon.

[Tyler Anderson, MD @DoctorTyMD]

QLCS tornado Salem, VA. #vawx @NWSBlacksburg

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@AlexHollings52 I thought the same thing! Is it from a video game or a movie or something?

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@MvonRen @OliverWood2017 @DoW_AARO Yeah I saw this chart, I should have clarified to ask if this was coming from analysis of the video or if it’s provided by the sensor platform?

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@MvonRen @OliverWood2017 @DoW_AARO Again always appreciate you taking the time to clarify with people wanting to learn more. Isn’t the rate of the vertical camera motion provided by the system? Presumably it’s under one of those black boxes but maybe you’ve seen a different version with that data provided.

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@OliverWood2017 @MvonRen @DoW_AARO I’ve watched his clips, he’s diligent and great at pulling snippets and stuff to help people understand. Optics is a very complex topic, so far at work today I’ve had to try explaining vergence to old vets twice, always a steep climb. Parallax is equally confounding.

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@rookisaacman @Aviation_Intel A Harrier lands anywhere. An F-14 arrives.

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@TrooperBenKs Gonna pull over any person that happens to be driving within a few miles of a storm and fine them 1000$ if they don’t have a pink light? Incredibly un-American idea.

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@blessedlyunwoke I’ve yet to see a good explanation for this one. The clouds provide a frame of reference for scale and behavior that precludes prosaic explanation so far. It’s large, it’s no glory, and it’s anomalously uniform in temp wilst demonstrating movement contrary to wind conditions

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@blessedlyunwoke Falch has uploaded quite a few FLIR vids of Mylar balloons. They are highly reflective and, typical of balloons, wobble and twist in the wind. It is plausible if looking down on one it’ll look cold because it’s reflecting the sky, but from the side they aren’t uniformly cold.

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@MvonRen @blessedlyunwoke I crave evidence I can show the rest of the family to say “this is like what Grandpa always told us about!”
Even if this thing did zip off, none of them will buy it through this much minutia.
But I don’t want you guys to keep trying!
Regards.

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@MvonRen @blessedlyunwoke Anecdotally my family has a super reliable experience with an object with instantaneous acceleration. My grandpa was a rocket scientist PHD at Thiokol (and a pilot) and he and several coworkers all watched an object do insane things that are physically impossible.

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@MvonRen @blessedlyunwoke I super grateful that ya’ll are willing to dive in and try to parse the data, but it’s also sad because by the time we’re arguing about a few frames in a blurry video, the opportunity to move the needle is obviously past.

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@MvonRen Could you do this but go a couple frames earlier?

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@AaronRigsbyOSC Ok that is so incredible!

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@MvonRen @FernandoFLongo @MickWest @liteshaper2 @lbf_tweet @opngate @adastra1950 @ZaineMichael1 I need @DaveFalch to weigh in here. Isn’t that dark area a gap in the clouds? You can see a bright object (hot?) on the ground as a pinpoint of white.

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@DaveFalch @rosscoulthart @YouTube Looking forward to your thoughts on the black circle that goes in and out of the clouds

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@rosscoulthart @DaveFalch @YouTube I love his input when he weighs in

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@OliverWood2017 @MvonRen It’s not clear as day though. I sat there scrubbing through it frame by frame and it still just looks like it’s zipping off the screen as the sensor starts panning upwards. Going to be hard to convince the layman who won’t give it much effort otherwise. Worth the effort!