Originally published at: Two moons were visible in the Dubai sky last night. | Boing Boing
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Neat. But people with motion sickness should not watch the video - there is way too much spinning in the drone-shot portion.
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Obligatory.
(He’s right you know, that isn’t a real moon.)
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It may be a world record for the Pepper’s Ghost illusion - slick.
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“UAE Government Media Office, the Mars moons of Deimos and Phobos”
There was a company in Doom, called UAC, who summoned those moons…
This is awfully specific and close to that. Coincidence? Or are they trying to summon hell?
Guess we’ll find out!
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“PRojEcT BluBeAm shEEple!! WaKe Up beFoRe it’S tOO LaTe”
They implied that it was direct projection on a special screen, rather than the partially silvered mirror stuff like in a traditional pepper’s ghost.
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I do like this projection, and think it looks really cool, but I also think about The Expanse when Avasarala mocks Mars’s moons as not being real moons, but rather just dim dots in the sky.
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Hmmm. Too round, surely? They don’t look anywhere near potatoey enough to be Phobos & Deimos.
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Can’t wait for this to be a round the clock projection to shape the narrative of the general populous.
and then came the projected duet with Tupac and Hatsune Miku dancing in the sky
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Indeed, sounds like a simple scrim-type projection screen. Think of dark finely-woven cheesecloth, or even screen door material. I did the same thing for a simple suspended Princess Leia “hologram” projection a few Halloween’s ago.
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Yeah, it’s an inexplicable mistake. Neither moon is spherical.
It’s like that recent H.G. Wells two-pound coin that features a War of the Worlds tripod… with four legs.
How?! Just, how?!?
This moon sighting was faked!
The hurtling moons of Barsoom!
I believe ‘mooning’ someone in the UAE will get you life in prison
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