{"id":854,"date":"2016-12-17T19:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anxietypub.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T12:56:37","slug":"the-black-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyrumjones.com\/anxietypub\/the-black-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/h2>\n

For those who have read Silent Subversion I<\/a>, this article should give you some hints about the contents of the second book, but\u00a0should not come as\u00a0a spoiler. For some, the contents of this article will cause confusion, anxiety\u00a0or both. This article will address the following question. Are stars visible from the upper atmosphere? No conclusions are made yet, but some interesting information has been discovered.<\/p>\n

There is a big\u00a0challenge of writing a fictional story intended to take place in the real world. The author’s understanding of the world can be wrong and can change after they write the story. It’s one thing to create\u00a0stories set in the<\/strong> real world<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0as Anxiety Publishing claims, and actually writing a story which could actually\u00a0take place in the real world. This is what happened to me. I wrote book 1 and 2 of the Silent Subversion<\/em> saga from my understanding of the world, but then my understanding changed. This happens to everyone, hopefully every day, but in this instance, my new views\u00a0all of the sudden conflicted with some of the content in\u00a0Silent Subversion 2. I cannot be honest with myself and my audience without aligning the story to my most current world view. Of course, this will put a minor delay in the publication of the second book.<\/p>\n

Here is what shook my world, so to speak. In my never-ending search for what NASA is hiding, I came upon a set of videos that disrupted my reality. At first, the new information caused me to feel anxiety as\u00a0it conflicted with my current set of beliefs. In my life, I’ve grown accustomed to these experiences of anxiety. I do not fear anxiety, but have learned to embrace it. It’s like what happened to me when I discovered my\u00a0religion to be a hoax. At first, the world transformed into a scary place of the unknown, but after a while, it\u00a0became more beautiful and mysterious and the thought of returning\u00a0to my old set of beliefs frightened me more than the new unknown ever did.<\/p>\n

These videos that caused so much disturbance were\u00a0all the high altitude weather balloons videos where the clouds are far below and the atmosphere is thin. I’ve watched\u00a0so\u00a0many of them, some of much better quality than others. I love watching the balloon take off from the ground and ascending into the sky. As it travels through the blue, I get impatient for the blue to disappear and to see the black of the new\u00a0sky above. The view brings an eerie sensation, a feeling of\u00a0being all alone in an empty universe.<\/p>\n

Figure 1) Snapshot of a 4 hour video by RotaFlight on youtube.com\/watch?v=9dfVtaZbuIQ&t=9718s<\/p><\/div>\n

Where are the stars?<\/h2>\n

Figure 1 above\u00a0is a typical image from one of the videos taken in HD quality. In the video you can see the sun, the Earth and the blackness of the sky without the slightest hint of any stars. When I first encountered these videos, I temporarily accepted\u00a0the standard explanation for the lack of stars. The exposure must not be set correctly. The aperture must not be\u00a0large enough. The brightness of the sun and Earth must be totally saturated the sensors. For a while, I accepted those explanations, but with a healthy dose of skepticism.\u00a0Most people though, easily\u00a0swallow the typical excuses without any question because they come from authority figures.<\/p>\n

A closer analysis of the sky with photographic imaging software revealed absolute blackness. For my own analysis, I chose to take a snapshot without the sun to show more of the black sky where the evidence of stars would most likely be found. On my computer, I used GIMP software edge detection and found no evidence of stars, see figure 2. In the images, if stars were present, they should be shown as areas of slightly less black than other areas and would be surrounded by contour lines. Above the dense part of the atmosphere it is totally reasonable to assume the brightness of the stars to be much greater than below. They should be detectable! In the image, the contour lines simply show a gradient from the bright Earth to the black sky with no circled areas.This means that the bright stars failed to show less black than the areas without stars, a highly unlikely scenario when the stars are supposed to be much brighter. This is evidence that the stars are not shining in wavelengths sensitive to standard cameras, wavelengths in the visible spectrum.<\/p>\n

Figure 2) Snapshot of a 4 hour video by RotaFlight with edge detection<\/p><\/div>\n

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Does the evidence described above mean that the stars are only an illusion? Are the stars just some sort of distortion of the upper atmosphere? Before I present the remaining results of my personal investigation, I’d like to share an analogy that initially occurred to me. What if we lived in a situation as presented in the Matrix movie and the programmers failed to create appropriate views from high in the atmosphere? I don’t believe this is the case, but it is fun to theorize and also impossible to prove false.<\/p>\n

The picture in figure 3 below shows a scene from one of my favorite movies, Coraline<\/em>. In the movie, an evil witch traps children in a small world of her making. In this particular scene, the main character Coraline is trying to run away from her\u00a0evil captor. When she reaches the boundary of the imaginary land, her reality becomes pixelated. The witch\u00a0who made the world to trap children, did not take\u00a0the time to create\u00a0an infinite world. In the high altitude videos, the sky is black and only the moon and sun are visible. Perhaps if there were programmers, they didn’t want to take the time to generate the stars all over again without the atmospheric interference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Figure 3) A scene from the movie Coraline<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Are the photo analysis and arguments above sufficient\u00a0to convince me or others that stars are invisible in space? For me, it’s almost enough considering all the other reasons I have to doubt NASA’s claims. In this instance, however, I also need to determine\u00a0if the faint signatures of stars from pictures below the atmosphere can be detected using the same analysis. If the same edge detection analysis on videos from below the atmosphere can be used to detect the faint signature of stars, that should be sufficient\u00a0evidence that they should be visible above the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The logic makes sense. Stars should be possibly twice as bright above the atmosphere than below, maybe more. This alone would make photographic evidence of stars more abundant at high altitude.\u00a0All it takes is one picture, just one real picture taken at the Earth’s surface.<\/p>\n

Figure 4) Snapshot of amateur moon video on youtube.com\/watch?v=8n0qd44KEb4<\/p><\/div>\n

The image in figure 4 is one such image from a video of the moon taken below our\u00a0dense atmosphere. The video appears to be raw footage and not manipulated. I specifically restricted my search to\u00a0videos by amateurs and not space organizations. Places like NASA rarely if ever provide raw imagery. Everything they provide has been edited\u00a0and is usually composite creations. Nowadays, everyone has the ability\u00a0to take video in HD which should be good enough for this analysis. Figure 4 is a snapshot of the raw video and figure 5 is the same photo but with edge detection. As can be seen, there are many circular contour lines indicating areas with different brightness. These are most likely stars.<\/p>\n

Figure 5) Snapshot, with edge detection, of amateur moon video on youtube.com\/watch?v=8n0qd44KEb4<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another observation came when I was looking at the sky at dusk, when the blue had almost disappeared and\u00a0turned to black and the brightest stars began to show. I took a picture at that time, just as an example, see below in Figure 6.\u00a0At that moment, I realized another important clue. If my eyes and simple camera could simultaneously capture the blue with the stars, then without the blue, they would be able to capture the stars even better against the black. This alone should be proof enough. In the high altitude videos, if their camera can capture the blue just before it turns black, they should also be able to capture the stars. Therefore, the stars\u00a0do\u00a0not show in the visible spectrum like they do under the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Figure 6) \u00a0Snapshot taken by an 8megapixel smartphone camera. My shaking hands turned it into a swirl.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Discoveries<\/h2>\n
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After several months of investigation and searching for videos of stars at high altitude, I came across a single believable\u00a0video. Figure 7 shows the\u00a0screenshot, along with its source so that if it’s ever removed from Youtube, the evidence will still remain in this article. The posters of this video claimed to use filters to see stars in upper atmosphere.\u00a0Later in the video, a person gives some information about the photographic details. For the star shots, they gave the following short description.\u00a0They call their camera setup, EVIL which stands for\u00a0(electronic viewfinder with interchangeable lens) with a backlit sensor and self-recording system included and sigma 30mm f\/1.4 lens with filters<\/em>. The text in the snapshot suggests that English is not their native language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Figure 7) \u00a0Can stars be seen in space, part1 on youtube.com\/watch?v=Lq18zyxY6z4<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Figure 8) Deseret News article by Howard W. Blakeslee published Feb 17, 1949 about Horace Winfield<\/p><\/div>\n

As a side note, the video is posted by a Youtube channel named Rendra Az. If there were other videos I could find of high altitude views of the stars, I would have used them instead. Here’s my critical analysis of the video. First, they don’t show much footage of the stars. Since the whole purpose of the video was to show video of stars, it didn’t make sense for only a small percentage of the video to show their results and then spend most\u00a0of the time with discussion. I tried to find a longer video of theirs with more footage, but could not. In the video title they interject the term Flat Earth<\/em>\u00a0which is always a red flag to me. I personally believe the flat earth movement to be a psychological operation (psyop) by some intelligence agency. Since this article is not about controlled opposition, I will not discuss that concept further here.<\/p>\n

Finally, I came across an interesting article published by the Deseret News, in Salt Lake City, about stars being invisible in space. The first part of the article is shown in Figure 8. As a personal side note, the Deseret News is\u00a0from Salt Lake City where I happened to spend the majority of my childhood. The author, Howard W. Blakeslee wrote about the theory of physicist Dr. Horace Winfield Webster. It is interesting to note that his theory came before anyone supposedly went into orbit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Implications<\/h2>\n

There are several implications to these\u00a0observations. On\u00a0a personal level, I have to modify parts of my second Silent Subversion<\/em> novel before publication. On a more global scale, our imagination of space might need to\u00a0be slightly modified. This would impact the producers, participants, and fans of every science fiction movie about space. Needless to say, all\u00a0mainstream scientists who have their\u00a0reputation built on the present understanding will fight any contradictory information.<\/p>\n

Observations like this usually\u00a0lead to more questions. If the Sun is like all the other stars, why is it visible in the upper atmosphere when all the other stars are not?\u00a0Perhaps since we are so much closer to the sun, the radiation is strong enough that even the thin higher atmosphere can transform much of\u00a0it into the visible spectrum. From what we know about blackbody radiation, however, an apparently hot object like the sun should emit some visible light. So, is the Sun different than the stars or does visible light not travel as far? It is also known that there is a significant electrical field which ends at the ionosphere. Could the different electrical condition above the atmosphere interfere with star light propagation? These questions are beyond the scope of this article. Speculation can be fun and productive, but\u00a0sticking with observation is often the safest course of action.<\/p>\n

The observations in this article\u00a0might help those of us who have noticed:<\/p>\n