Gas Station Ghost??? o.o

**Lunar4** · November 14, 2007, 09:59 PM

I saw this on CNN a few minutes ago. It was their pic of the day:

Interesting. Anderson Cooper thought it was lint, lol.
Idk what it is, could be a gas or something?

**Kiljan Arslan** · November 14, 2007, 10:37 PM

Mhmmm I think that there was enough time to enhance the image and make that thing appear.

**Lunar4** · November 15, 2007, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by Kiljan Arslan

Mhmmm I think that there was enough time to enhance the image and make that thing appear.

Well people who were at the gas station actually saw it with their own eyes. I'll try to find a link.

**The Good** · November 14, 2007, 10:37 PM

I don't think that is a ghost, it looks more like some gas-like substance, or it could be lint like that one person claimed, but it certainly doesn't look a ghost.

**Chaigidel** · November 14, 2007, 10:37 PM

something other than a ghost more than likely

**ajm317** · November 14, 2007, 10:53 PM

Could be lint blowing around on the lens, like Cooper suggested. Whatever it is looks massively out of focus, suggesting that it's very close to the lens. Also, note that although several cars show up, so far as we know nobody actually saw the thing. So I'm thinking a little bit of blue fuzz stuck to the lens, that gets blown around by the wind a bit.

**Spurius** · November 15, 2007, 05:41 AM

Nope, no fluff. At 5-6 seconds it 'flies' downward by pushing something 'winglike'. The movement looked pretty much like a swimmer going down just for a sec.

Fluff doesn't do that. So it's either a hoax done on a PC - most likely - or, if real, not a ghost - they don't need to 'push' themselves against air, I think.

[edit] reminds me a bit of 'Prey' by Michael Crighton. If so, I hope they're nicer. Blue would be a wise colour for nanobots, to pick them out of the background individually, and would mean they're probably escaped and still in lab-stage. If those were anywhere near battle-ready, you'd never see them.

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**ajm317** · November 15, 2007, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by Spurius

Nope, no fluff. At 5-6 seconds it 'flies' downward by pushing something 'winglike'. The movement looked pretty much like a swimmer going down just for a sec.

Fluff doesn't do that.

I'm not convinced. Fluff is not exactly a rigid solid. Could have been a few strands of fibers that caught the wind differently.

**~~removeduser_426582376423734~~** · November 15, 2007, 01:20 PM

Its the black smoke of Lost's older brother.

**Spurius** · November 15, 2007, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by ajm317

I'm not convinced. Fluff is not exactly a rigid solid. Could have been a few strands of fibers that caught the wind differently.

Well, I still think a diving motion comes closest, doesn't change no matter how many times I watch it. Very much how an octopus would push itself.

**fieldmarshal** · November 15, 2007, 08:01 AM

ITS CASPER!!!!

**Cataclysm** · December 09, 2007, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by fieldmarshal

ITS CASPER!!!!

I thought you said "ITS CAESAR!!!!"

Now THAT would have been interesting.

**Thanatos** · December 10, 2007, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Cataclysm

I thought you said "ITS CAESAR!!!!"

Now THAT would have been interesting.

Yes, because Caesar's dying wish was to have visited a gas station once in his lifetime.

**Cataclysm** · December 10, 2007, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Thanatos

Yes, because Caesar's dying wish was to have visited a gas station once in his lifetime.

Come on, you know it'd be awesome to see Caesar's ghost.

**Gary88** · November 15, 2007, 08:02 AM

funny coz its right on that guys car and he doesnt even notice it.

am i the only one who thinks its really **** computer graphics?

**Lunar4** · November 15, 2007, 08:28 AM

Haha could be but they don't usually have photoshopped stuff on CNN.

**Spurius** · November 15, 2007, 01:04 PM

Well, you could fake it easily, even by faintly superimposing the Djinn from Disney's Alladin over the footage, even without resorting to Hollywood FX.

Maybe that's exactly what they did.