Mysterious black ring (possible alien content)

dculberson said:

Privately owned transformers do exist. 

Waiting on 9 tractor trailer's worth on current project. Which is about 20 minutes from where most of those photos were taken...but we didn't have anything blow up, that I'm aware of.

It may be too much work for many people to separate fact from fiction, and fiction almost always offers a more compelling narrative.  As such the truth has mostly fallen out of favor in recent times.  I have no idea what causes the smoke rings but I think the reaction to it was curious and entertaining, as are many of the comments here.  

It also may be that certain parts of life are so complex, and the individual so disempowered, that it triggers a desire to attribute a cause and/or a meaning to it. I don't really understand how my phone can contain the multitude of information and capabilities that it does, but I can understand how that power can also make me vulnerable.

Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:

okaaaaaay, so why, in an age of unprecedented scientific advances, does it seem like our society increasingly embraces superstition, paranoia and conspiracy?

 

Maybe we've been lied to just a couple too many times?

triumph7 said:

Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:

okaaaaaay, so why, in an age of unprecedented scientific advances, does it seem like our society increasingly embraces superstition, paranoia and conspiracy?

 

Maybe we've been lied to just a couple too many times?

Perhaps, but so often what I see is people  abandoning the "MSM" in favor of sketchy news sources that have even less credibility.

Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:

triumph7 said:

Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:

okaaaaaay, so why, in an age of unprecedented scientific advances, does it seem like our society increasingly embraces superstition, paranoia and conspiracy?

 

Maybe we've been lied to just a couple too many times?

Perhaps, but so often what I see is people  abandoning the "MSM" in favor of sketchy news sources that have even less credibility.

It's not that people didn't have crazy ideas before, there are plenty of them from before the Internet was widely known.  "Moon landing hoax", for example.  It's just that one of the things the Internet is really good at is letting niche groups of people find each other so that they can discuss and promote their ideas.  It works for race cars and it also works for conspiracy theories.

Maybe that is from some bro-dozer lighting off with it's emissions delete.

I'm not sure about the black part, but I do know that many times darn near any combustion event can cause a ring like this.  You can see it frequently on old putting tractors.  As it ejects the visible exhaust, the inside of the ring is ejected faster than the outside due to friction inside the tailpipe.  As the ring rises, it is also spinning inside-out over the top of the ring.  This generates an inertia that can keep it together for a long time.

I've seen similar rings when we burn a brush pile with a little too much boy scout water (gasoline).  The big "floof" of super-rich ignition makes a black ring that usually spins for a while and then dissipates.

But it's aliens.  For sure.

Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:

okaaaaaay, so why, in an age of unprecedented scientific advances, does it seem like our society increasingly embraces superstition, paranoia and conspiracy?

 

People feel a sense of power if they can say they are smarter than an expert?

If you haven't seen an interdimensional portal before... You have now.

Aliens living inside Mount Etna for sure.

SmithsonianMag.com: Mount Etna Puffs ‘Smoke Rings’ Into the Sky

Those black rings are alien burnouts.

Just because we have all these scientific advances doesn't mean that humankind is smarter as a whole.  In fact if someone is of below average intelligence it makes it even more likely that they wouldn't be able to comprehend new advances.  You can see the wheel that was just invented.  It's really hard to see how a quantum computer works.