Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[nyctuber]

Nothing said or shown so far convinces me that video #6 is "for real".
Nothing said or shown so far convinces me that video #6 is "a fake" either.

...the points made so far (on both sides of the arguement) could easily be explained otherwise, depending on whatever the actual 'truth' (whatever that is) of that video is.

IMO, it's just too difficult to draw convincing conclusions either way from that particular video (ie. odd accel curves, non-steady-cam filming with unopportune zooming, no matching hires video, etc).  I wouldn't characterize anything about this video as "absolute".

Think of it like reading an X-Ray. To the untrained eye, it's usually impossible understand what you're looking at. You need to train your eye with the high resolution videos. I have 0% doubt about the fishing line in the first video.

[RunningBare]

5 bucks says they don't go for it.

It first becomes visible at 3:57.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpQA5c9guvE&fmt=18

[nyctuber]

5 bucks says they don't go for it.

It doesn't really matter, the fishing line is there.

[Psyclone]

I have to reiterate that I can also see the string, but as I already pointed out they are going to see what they want to see.
We are all capable of biased observation, we do not want to see what's before us...

Just curious... can you tell me why I might have split your quote at this particular point?

... because it goes against what we've believed then we will not look hard enough, and if we do see something suspicious we will explain it away as an artifact/apparition
Some of us can eventually get passed that bias, while others will continue to lie to themselves.
I have no problem with a person that lies to themselves, I have a problem when they pass that lie around.

[Psyclone]

hint:

The first part makes perfect sense.
The second part proves the first part.