Topic: Oh boy, another "spacecraft" near the sun!

[Obsequious]

I'm just gonna go right ahead and assume this is some kind of glitch in the imaging process:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2134916/The-Icarus-spacecraft-Mystery-Nasa-sun-watching-satellite-captures-UFO-surfing-hellish-surface-sun.html

Regarding all these schmucks who are so eager to believe every damned lens abnormality is a UFO, I have to wonder if they have any idea how unimaginably hot the sun is, and how unimaginably huge a near-solar object would have to be in order for us to see it.

No, it's not impossible that a UFO the size of many Earths could exist, and it's not impossible that some highly advanced civilization could find a way of making it survive a close encounter with the sun, but it's not very friggin' likely!

[Xptical]

My favorite line from the article:

'Also, there seems to be some intelligent design involved. It's beyond human engineering to create.'

Jesus is coming back for us.  And he's bringing a big-assed space ship!

[Guillermo]

OMG, that is totally bad.

First of all, It's in just one frame of the video.
You cannot tell how close it is to the sun or what scale it is.
As the video is played there are literary hundreds of such artifacts in the video appearing at any time.
You even see what looks like an asteroid traveling towards the sun.
Finally, it's a cosmic ray hitting the detector. Totally common.

[Chew]

This is the one down-side to NASA making its research available to the public. Any crackpot who's too stupid to hold down a job goes on the SOHO website, sees things his feeble mind couldn't possibly understand, and posts it to the UFO forums from the comfort of his mother's basement.

[Obsequious]

First of all, It's in just one frame of the video.

That's because their cloaking device only had a momentary glitch; capturing it on film was a once-in-a-lifetime stroke of good luck.

[NekoNinja]

LOL This made me laugh so hard. How could anyone really take this seriously? XD

[Obsequious]

Funniest part of that article:

Alien spacecraft? Observers pointed out that the 'jointed' arms of the object near the sun are very similar to fictional interstellar craft

Because there is no better test for the presence of intelligent alien life than comparing the data to those facts we've been able to glean from science fiction movies.

[DG]

One frame in that video. I'm convinced!

[khendar]

Finally, it's a cosmic ray hitting the detector. Totally common.

Bingo. The cosmic equivalent of a dust mote "orb".

[NonHero]

One frame in that video. I'm convinced!

You know, this makes me feel better about my bad days at work.  No matter how bad they are, I'm not going through videos frame by frame looking for meaningless squiggles.