Guess what guys...Jim Peters and I are LOL! （注：LOL，Laugh Out Loud，大声笑）
Holy $#&%!!!!                   （Jim Peters是朱斯的“飞棍研究组”的成员）
If you only knew the totality of the evidence! （要是你能知道得更全面些就好了！）
You "scientists" are basing all you know on this web site's minimal information.
ROD MEN RULE!!!

    哈！Somebody对Nobody的嗤之以鼻和不屑一顾跃然纸上。但本教授玩儿飞虫25年，看了罗杰的研究不禁击掌赞叹、连连称奇。2005年想以RODS研究为例给研究生们讲点方法论，就向罗杰咨询了一下，他很快就回了E：

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To: Sol's 'rod' study            From:bpzhai@njau.edu.cn 
Subject: Sol's Rod Page         Date: 2005-06-27  14:15（北京时间）
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Dear Sir,

I'm a Professor of Insect Ecology, Nanjing Agricultural University. I'm very interested in your studies on Rods and quite agree with what you say.
Question:
When did you educe the conclusion that Rods are the trajectories of flying insects? I ask this question because I just saw a Chinese website that said a Chinese photographer reveal the mystery of Rods (http://fg.neteye.cn and http://bbs.nature-eye.com). The Chinese fellow had got a same result as you but by designing an experiment of flying bee sequences to produce a very typical Rod. I wonder if this fellow is enlightened from your information. I want to know who is the first one to reveal the mystery, so that I can tell my students what is scientific research and how to do it.
 

Thanks a lot.

Ping

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From: Roger Harris <roger@opendb.com>  To: Baoping Zhai <bpzhai@njau.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: Sol's Rod Page              Date: 2005-6-27 11:04:00 (USET)
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I began publishing my findings on the Web in March of 2000.  Others had speculated that "rods" could be motion-blurred insects -- an obvious possibility -- but to the best of my knowledge, my site was the first to show similar images from insect videos, and the first to substantiate that theory by showing that the pattern on successive video frames can be explained in terms of the mechanics of the camcorder.  (Showing that bugs can cause streaks that look like "rods" is revealing, but showing that the pattern produced on successive images is the same as that seen on the videos offered as evidence of "rods" is rather conclusive.)
My initial experiments, using tinfoil balls tossed in front the camcorder, were simply intended to determine if the shutter speed of the camcorder was slow enough to cause those long blurs. In capturing the images to a computer, however, I noticed that if I captured both fields in each frame, they formed a continuous, end-to-end streak. That led me to find out more about the workings of the camcorder and the NTSC video format (which I didn't know much about at the time). Finding that NTSC video is actually 60 fields per second (2 interlaced fields per frame), captured sequentially, and that the slowest shutter speed of NTSC camcorders is also 1/60th second explained that continuous streak perfectly. I then went back to the "rod" images I had taken from Jose Escamilla's roswellrods.com site and found that most of them did not show a continuous streak, but rather a pattern of "rods" separated by gaps of the same length. That led me to speculate that perhaps his image captures were really just one field from each frame. A little more research revealed that in fact, some VCRs only show one field from each frame when they are paused and then advanced (whereas the VCR I used was a type that shows each field when advanced). Since then, I have found many more "rod" images on the Web (including several from a video that Escamilla is selling) that show the continuous streak pattern, and ALL of the "rods" I've found on the Web show either the continuous streak pattern of the equal-length-gap pattern.

Thank you for your interest, and best regards,