five days ago taking that information and attempting to create a composite sketch may have made some sense... now with all the publicity any recounts will be subject to the human minds ability to fill in plausible gaps ... we need to rely on the video and other scientific evidence ... humans minds and memories are too easy to confuse over issues of exact timing of events (seconds/minutes apart) and visual clues that do not fit actual experiences. Psychological studies would indicate that we can not and should not rely on human memory of a visual event (did you see a 7 on a blue background followed by a 6 on a red background or was it the other way around)... in this case you are asking for a recount of a visual record for which many participants have no experiential background (my guess here on experience) which means the observations are suspect (sorry guys).
---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 13:58:10 -0800 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [ERPS] A question for those who saw Columbia locally (in California) >To: ERPS Main List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On 7 Feb 2003, at 21:51, David Masten wrote: > >> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 21:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > After reading Ian's account, it occurs to me to wonder: Would it be >> > worthwhile for him and other local observers to get together with >> > someone (perhaps a police sketch artist) who could turn their verbal >> > descriptions of the event into pictures? >> > >> >> I believe there are enough pictures of the shuttle over California. Ian has >> told me that he met up with an astronomical group taking both video and >> photos on Mt. Hamilton. I have seen videos from Ca. and Nevada, plus there >> are reports of several photos and videos from California that have not been >> publicly released. >> > > I don't know that. In any case, the question of quality must be >considered. How many of those observers had to change sites and set >up again at the last minute, as Ian did? That circumstance works against >getting good pictures of a transient event like the shuttle reentry. > >> Police sketches are of dubious usefulness anyway. >> > > Perhaps. And I'm aware of witness variability. But the human visual >system is a very adaptable and versatile recorder of images. If enough >verbal accounts could be obtained and distilled down into pictures, the >common features might provide some worthwhile clues. Or they might >not; but under the circumstances I think it's an option that ought to be >considered. > >Chris >_______________________________________________ >ERPS-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
