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Last post 06-11-2008 8:13 AM by MasterPlanSoftware. 2376 replies.
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  • 04-09-2008 2:19 PM In reply to

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    rc_pinchey:

    Sorry, Spectate's already doing that himself:

    http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=184282#184282

     

    Hook, line and sinker. Nice one :P

  • 04-09-2008 2:19 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    Bwahaha! I'm sure he has a torture chamber in a shed somewhere.
     

    Scary thought, there was a guy who would kidnap women off the street put em in a metal shipping crate and torture/rape em to death until one escaped and ran into a cop before he caught her. Hope we aint dealin' with one of them lunatics now.

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  • 04-09-2008 2:21 PM In reply to

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    There is no sound, its just a damn photo album in video form. EVER HEARD OF FLICKR OR PICASAWEB or even image shack? No? Ill give you a hint, they can do slideshows for you.

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  • 04-09-2008 2:23 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    Scary thought, there was a guy who would kidnap women off the street put em in a metal shipping crate and torture/rape em to death until one escaped and ran into a cop before he caught her. Hope we aint dealin' with one of them lunatics now.
    The really scary thing is that if one completely reads CrimeLibrary.com, you'd have a good idea how to set up an elaborate system with very little risk of getting caught. The inventiveness of some of those people is amazing -- from pure genius to completely sick.

    Maybe "Swamp" is his special name for the putrid liquid that's accumulating in his yard from the "disposals".

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  • 04-09-2008 2:26 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    The really scary thing is that if one completely reads CrimeLibrary.com, you'd have a good idea how to set up an elaborate system with very little risk of getting caught. The inventiveness of some of those people is amazing -- from pure genius to completely sick.

    Maybe "Swamp" is his special name for the putrid liquid that's accumulating in his yard from the "disposals".

    Man if you don't kill someone using a super-elaborate scheme where nothing can go wrong and do it in a different state with a stolen car which would be found somewhere in canada with no fingerprints because it exploded prior to being found while you have an alabi for being in europe during that entire month, its not worth killing them, theres a risk of getting caught.

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  • 04-09-2008 2:27 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    Man if you don't kill someone using a super-elaborate scheme where nothing can go wrong and do it in a different state with a stolen car which would be found somewhere in canada with no fingerprints because it exploded prior to being found while you have an alabi for being in europe during that entire month,
    That sounds almost like the setup in the novel I finished reading.

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  • 04-09-2008 2:28 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    That sounds almost like the setup in the novel I just completed.
     

    Shit, now I need to install mirrors in my cubicle incase you are sneaking up behind me.

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  • 04-09-2008 2:31 PM In reply to

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    LOL. Edit lag. You quoted the original while I was posting the edit. "Completed" just sounded too much like I wrote the novel. It was one I read.

    I'm really good at sneaking up on people (who don't have mirrors up). I scare the shit out of my wife all the time just by simple walking. I don't make any noise unless the floor is flawed, like loose boards.

    No worries, though. Scaring people is all I do. I haven't hurt anyone.. yet. LOL

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  • 04-09-2008 2:34 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    LOL. Edit lag. You quoted the original while I was posting the edit. "Completed" just sounded too much like I wrote the novel. It was one I read.

    I'm really good at sneaking up on people (who don't have mirrors up). I scare the shit out of my wife all the time just by simple walking. I don't make any noise unless the floor is flawed, like loose boards.

    No worries, though. Scaring people is all I do. I haven't hurt anyone.. yet. LOL
     

    Agh! AbbydonKrafts is gona kill me! Opse sorry that was just a co-worker running... Damn I'm jumpy!

     

    Actually my wife complains about the same thing. Shes showering/drying her hair, and suddenly I appear. Fat on the buttom of your feet, muffles the sound. Its how elephants can walk without making any noise and sneak up on people at night (dangerous when they in heat, they get ultra-violent)

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  • 04-09-2008 2:40 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    Actually my wife complains about the same thing. Shes showering/drying her hair, and suddenly I appear.
    LOL. Yeah. I don't make the stomping or thumping sound that most people do, even when I have shoes on. I can cross the house at full speed, but not make any noise. When I appear directly behind her computer chair and say something, that is when she screams and about falls out of the chair. Of course, she hits me afterwards and says "STOP THAT!". Back when I worked at Winn-Dixie as a stocker, I scared the heck out of a deli clerk. She repeatedly tried to get me back afterwards, but it never worked.
    dlikhten:
    Fat on the buttom of your feet, muffles the sound. Its how elephants can walk without making any noise and sneak up on people at night (dangerous when they in heat, they get ultra-violent)
    Nice example. LOL

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  • 04-09-2008 3:04 PM In reply to

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     I updated the aliens page. Thanks burntfuse!

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     Really need to post the 90 pictures that make up the following CamStudio recording. I can see the Cloaked object quite clearly. The cloaked one even made it easy when trying to find the tiny flyer for hi-lighting. Screen reshoots work way way better than camstudio 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJciiLrkME

     

    Do download the original and look at the above frames. The hidden one is quite visible.. For those who want to see.

    http://www.archive.org/details/Strange_strange_artifacts_in_the_clouds

     

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  • 04-09-2008 3:10 PM In reply to

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    MasterPlanSoftware:

     I updated the aliens page. Thanks burntfuse!

     

    Nice! You forgot to mention how dull and pointless his videos are. He seems to randomly point a camera somewhere and after 20 hours of staring thinks theres an alien there. WHY did he video tape electrical wires to begin with?

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  • 04-09-2008 3:10 PM In reply to

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    burntfuse, you did the teachings page text right? I can seem to find the post, but I want to make sure I am giving credit to the correct person.

    Someone speak up if I am messing up with credits anywhere.

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    SpectateSwamp:

     Really need to post the 90 pictures that make up the following CamStudio recording. I can see the Cloaked object quite clearly. The cloaked one even made it easy when trying to find the tiny flyer for hi-lighting. Screen reshoots work way way better than camstudio 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJciiLrkME

     

    Dude! Stop that, you are going to get me fired, I'm laughing too much!

     

    SpectateSwamp:

    Do download the original and look at the above frames. The hidden one is quite visible.. For those who want to see.

    http://www.archive.org/details/Strange_strange_artifacts_in_the_clouds

    "For those who want to see." I love that... Its there if you WANT it to be there... Yea the aliens got cloaking technology. If you think they arent there it works, but if you think they are it fails... oh man almost like the Someone Else's Problem cloak?

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  • 04-09-2008 3:12 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    Nice! You forgot to mention how dull and pointless his videos are.
     

    I didn't write it, burntfuse did. But if you would like to add on, or change something go ahead and copy and paste it here with your edits, and we can decide if it goes live. In fact, the video editing page needs a write up, feel free to do it if you have the ambition.

  • 04-09-2008 3:20 PM In reply to

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    BTW the page is  "Untitled Page" you might want to edit the headers...

     

     

    Among his other delusions, Doug Pederson is convinced that aliens are everywhere (at least where he lives), and he has taken many videos and photos that supposedly show alien activity. In his own mind, he is an expert alien hunter, enabled by SSDS . If there were actual proof and facts to back up his claims, then this wouldn't be unreasonable. However, what this "evidence" shows is actually many specks in the air that are most likely either leaves blowing in the wind, birds at a distance, or video artifacts. On a side note, he believes that birds can see video artifacts, apparently not understanding that they aren't real-life objects.

    How Doug actually came up with the videos is a mystery in itself. He seems to randomly videotape clouds, wires, and pretty much anything dull and boring. The videos usually have no action, are of inanimate objects (sometimes a bird for excitement), have no commentary to describe what the videos are about and why they are there, and until recently have names which are undescriptive of what is actually in the videos (like SpectateSwamp1). He then seems to stare at it for hours and determines that there are aliens. After this crucial step he takes still frames, uses a red circle to indicate the aliens, and posts a video of his desktop where he does a terrible job of making a slideshow manually, of course without any commentary as to what the video is about.

    Doug Pederson also once recorded a few videos of an anvil-shaped cloud (Towering Cumulus / Stacked Cumulus) which he calls a "mushroom cloud". He seems to think it holds some kind of alien mother ship, and is created by the aliens as visual cover. When asked what was special about the cloud, he responded that "There was one exactly like this one in the same location about 2 weeks later. I think they are there looking for Dino Mummys." Instead of convincing everyone that he is truly the cutting-edge alien hunter he believes he is, this only led to laughter, especially since he has mentioned "Dino Mummies" a few more times since then.

    Another one of Doug Pederson's "alien" videos shows a leaf flying through the air and spinning. He believes it's some kind of alien vehicle, as he calls it the "tobacco leaf flyer". His given reasons are that it flies quickly, changing direction in the middle of the video (he doesn't accept the explanation that wind is behind this, as with all other flying leaves), and that the stem retracts in the video, even though all that happens is that the leaf turns, hiding the stem from view. In short, his alien claims are too ridiculous even for the other people who follow UFO sightings.

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  • 04-09-2008 3:22 PM In reply to

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     Quotes:

     

    The hidden one is quite visible.. For those who want to see. (a few posts ago)

     

    Oh this is my favorite so far!

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  • 04-09-2008 3:30 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    BTW the page is  "Untitled Page" you might want to edit the headers...
     

    Yeah I had that on the local copy, but I had no committed the changes. Should be fixed now, since I had to commit your edits anyway.

    I added your text, but I made a few edits. I hope you don't mind. Also, I put it at the bottom, makes crediting a little easier, although I agree with your flow above.

  • 04-09-2008 3:35 PM In reply to

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    MasterPlanSoftware:

    dlikhten:
    BTW the page is  "Untitled Page" you might want to edit the headers...
     

    Yeah I had that on the local copy, but I had no committed the changes. Should be fixed now, since I had to commit your edits anyway.

    I added your text, but I made a few edits. I hope you don't mind. Also, I put it at the bottom, makes crediting a little easier, although I agree with your flow above.

    Mods were good. The placement is a bit wierd specially if the list of videos is long. Let me "sleep on it" ill come up with a better formed page :)

    Edit: Credit is missaligned on bottom... :P

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  • 04-09-2008 3:39 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:

    Edit: Credit is missaligned on bottom... :P

     

    Yeah that is due to my little sidebar 'hack'. Need some time to make that right...

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    MasterPlanSoftware:

    dlikhten:

    Edit: Credit is missaligned on bottom... :P

     

    Yeah that is due to my little sidebar 'hack'. Need some time to make that right...

     

    Are you using straight up HTML or a CM system?

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  • 04-09-2008 4:05 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    Are you using straight up HTML or a CM system?
     

    ASP.NET/ XHTML

    Started as a simple starter kit from MS since I didn't have any time to get it up and running. But I still have no time yet. I will get there... one piece at a time hopefully.

     

    Oh, and sorry everyone, I included google ads to the site. Might as well see if I can get compensated for any of this...

    You never know.

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