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The loading claim sounds like a rehash of a similar claim made by Ian Simpson of Look-up.org.uk a few years ago. That site seems to be down now though.

I'm pretty sure that is just a stock image. From Tineye:

It's Secureteam10 so the whole image could be faked (that account has form with faking images!) but assuming it is real, it is almost certainly a stitching artifact. Google Earth uses satellite imagery for the cloud layer but it is not visible-spectrum imagery (as you can see if you compare it...

Further confirmation that there is a line of sight from Cyprus to Lebanon: Yes, you can see Lebanon from Cyprus, but once in a lifetime if you are lucky! I took this photograph of the mountains of Lebanon from Kantara castle (Cyprus) very early on a very cold morning. I simply stuck the...

Playing with the Metabunk curve calculator, you would only need land a fraction over 3000ft (900 metres) at each end to get the line of sight. (Horizon is 72.5 miles away from 3000ft, with refraction.) Looking at the Google Maps terrain view, it's possible to find two points both over 900...

Source: https://twitter.com/FamilyGriffith/status/962621089812660226 Screenshot for posterity:

It's a good thing it wasn't my car being launched, or the space debris belt would have got a whole lot worse, what with all the sweet wrappers, old parking tickets, coffee cups, tissues and goodness knows what else floating out from under the seats. I reckon Elon probably keeps his motors in...

Again, space doesn't really have any temperature. Individual objects in space have an equilibrium temperature that depends on their distance from the sun and their reflectivity (albedo), plus any other effects (e.g. planetary atmospheres). For instance the Earth, with no atmosphere but the same...

Big deal. So are my socks.

I was wondering the same thing about the tyres. Although I imagine that even if the tyres were fully inflated, they would probably cope. After all, going from 1 atmosphere external pressure to hard vacuum is only adding about 15psi to the effective tyre pressure. That amount of overinflation...

An earlier mention from March 2005 but with a long dead link: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAILED THIS NATION! Remember that! HEADLINES and NEWS LINKS Courtesy of TvNewsLies.org MAR-25-05____________________________________________________ WAR - http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war [...] 9/11 -...

I had a look on Usenet (although Google has really screwed up the search facility in recent years). I found this article from the Deseret Morning News, from [Nov 10] 2005, referencing Steven Jones: https://www.deseret.com/2005/11/10/19922050/y-professor-thinks-bombs-not-planes-toppled-wtc...

I'm pretty sure it's a lens flare. It's in the right place, lining up with the brightest reflection on the car if you mirror the image through the lens axis. Would need to check the video to be sure.

See also this thread: https://www.metabunk.org/starman-and-the-falcon-heavy.t9502/

Another Himawari comparison, using a still from a little earlier in the mission:

You can also compare it to images from Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite that takes photos every 10 minutes from a geostationary position over the western Pacific. This is for 00:40 UTC, which is 19:40 ET: Obviously the images are taken from different angles so you can't overlay them...

Best morning for contrails for a while here (Hampshire, UK). First one looking southeast, second looking northwest at the same time. Long contrail at 33,000ft, short one at 37,000ft:

Time: AD 2015-09-27 PM 05:52:00.000 (Sun) Coordinated Universal Time From latitude 51.55000° N, longitude 0.55000° E: The moon is located 2.6366° above the horizon (rising). True compass bearing: 94.6672° Illuminated fraction: 99.78% (waxing). Angle of center of moon's bright limb: 73.1...

I was curious about the fuel used in the Falcon Heavy. It turns out to be very similar to jet fuel, but much more highly purified: RP-1 (alternately, Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as rocket fuel. ... Alkenes...

Yes, airliners will change their routes to make use of the jet stream. A nice illustration was posted by Flightradar24 on Twitter recently: Source: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/960541702456045569 Source: https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/960543612487512064