stunning image , when was this no date , unknown , must be top secret flyby
If he told us -- he'd have to kill us.Fun fact:
One of our members was an SR-71 pilot. I'd love to hear some of the stories @digitalfrost could tell.
Yeah -- we're not at 60k feet, Toto. Both of those craft would burst into flame at Mach 2 at low altitude.Assuming for a second that it is real, judging from the rolling hills in the background and the clouds on top, the shot is relatively close to the ground and not at altitudes where these planes flew supersonically. Maybe an airshow or so. I saw Concord once at Farnborough....
Thanks. Reading the small print actually helps . Thanks for clarifying.One of the Youtube comments;
As indicated, the video is made with Digital Combat Simulator... Although the images are superb, it is very unlikely that this scene actually happened.
1. Never has a military aircraft such as the SR-71 had reason to fly so close to the Concorde.
2. The Concorde is 62 meters long and 12 meters high, while the Lockheed SR-71 is 33 meters long and 6 meters high. In this video, these proportions are not respected.
3. At supersonic (or even subsonic) speed, it is simply not possible to pick up the surrounding sound.
Very clever though.
Fun fact:
One of our members was an SR-71 pilot. I'd love to hear some of the stories @digitalfrostcouldcan't tell.
It has been said that eyewitness testimony is utterly unreliable. In the era of AI deep fakes, eyewitness testimony may be the only reliable testimony.This is an example of the generation of an event which was not an event at all. It's pretty good and could fool most people, probably. We'll see more or it with AI.
Right now, from what I can gather and have observed, most consumer grade AI appears to be at the level of cartoons, or unusual animations. Sometimes technically interesting, but arguably not having the 'soul' of human created art, such as early hand drawn cell by cell Disney animations.
Soon, not sure when, but it will happen earlier than later, it will be possible to generate non-events that for almost all watchers will be indistinguishable from videos of actual events. Then, how will we investigate the truth? The first way will be to ask, "Does this make sense?" But we live in a rather nonsensical world, so that may not be a good arbiter. And most people don't bother to even ask the question, but rely on visual appeal. In this case one could ask, "Why would an SR-71 fly overhead and next to a commercial airliner?" And then come up with the correct answer themselves.
For the most part it remains possible to investigate the veracity of claims, at least if one is willing to dive deep into the search engines. This ability is however becoming less and less possible, as control of the flow of open information by large, highly centralized state and private actors (often it is impossible to draw a distinct line between the two) occurs.
nuclear launches, civil unrest, large-scale industry disruptions (eg banking, airlines), profund supply-demand mismatches will occur routinely.In the era of AI deep fakes,