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  1. Mendel

    Havana Syndrome: "Sonic Attacks" at the US Embassy in Cuba - Mass Hysteria?

    So don't use numbers! They're not required to arrive at this conclusion. And if you do use numbers, call them your "personal confidence", instead of labeling them a probability that hasn't and won't be measured. Btw., 90% confidence that 90% are true amounts to a bet value of 81%, not 9:1. If...
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    Phoenix Lights

    I understand your point. It simply does not address what I wrote, for reasons already detailed.
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    The Black Vault's Twitter Thread on Misleading Claims by Elizondo, TTSA, and Others

    yes, but there was never anything official for AATIP-that-was-not-AAWSAP. You have to look to AAWSAP for something with a budget and presumably an org chart.
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    Havana Syndrome: "Sonic Attacks" at the US Embassy in Cuba - Mass Hysteria?

    You're not assigning probabilities, you're making up numbers.
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    Debunking Humor...

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    Honing an approach for analyzing the angular speed of the moon during an eclipse

    Well, in your OP you have the moon diameter at 0.56⁰. Now consider that the moon actually moved 0.28⁰ degrees further than you saw, i.e. half a diameter more—won't that boost her speed considerably?
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    Honing an approach for analyzing the angular speed of the moon during an eclipse

    your number for circumference is actually the radius, you need ×2π That's with the moon set to 10,000 km, at 370,000 km the angle is ~0.3⁰, which is big enough to be a problem (but I did not use exact values). Orbital motion of Earth vs. the sun adds another ~0.03⁰, but I think in the other...
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    Honing an approach for analyzing the angular speed of the moon during an eclipse

    Not just the distance, but also the parallax effect. The Earth's surface in effect "overtakes" the moon, so parallax would appear to slow the apparent speed of the moon down. (I can sketch it for you if it's still unclear.)
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    Honing an approach for analyzing the angular speed of the moon during an eclipse

    40 minutes elapsed, yet your maths does not take the motion of the observer due to Earth's rotation (15⁰/hour) into account.
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    Ross Coulthart

    Here's an explanation of the ladder game and its physical principles (cued up). Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_ZlWJ3qJI&t=411
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    Ross Coulthart

    I guess it depends on what we want this be a metaphor of. When we think of Zondo's Navy videos being explainable, the fake prize comes to mind; when we think of disclosure activists, we see them demanding another step on the ladder to failure.
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    Ross Coulthart

    no, some of these games (e.g. the ladder) are rigged such that it appears possible to get a price (just one more attempt!) but actually isn't that's what this feels like to a UFOlogist, that it's possible to get a good proof of these visitors, it's just the details that seem to somehow never...
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    Debunking Humor...

    Being young? ;)
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    Debunking Humor...

    Being old is not a brag. :p
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    Phoenix Lights

    I'm not referring to "the side that is arguing aliens". I was responding to your, "The case fascinates me more from the level of bias from all sides than it does the alien aspect." And the level of bias is markedly different depending on which side you look at. That's one of the distinctions...
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    Geolocation Exercises

    To be fair, I couldn't be bothered to look for photos, but the silt deposit is asymmetric.
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    Geolocation Exercises

    I thought both clues indicated a "downward" flow in that bend, so right-to-left or eastward. The solution proves this correct.
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    Geolocation Exercises

    might be even better to find cemeteries with no buildings at all near them (not just churches) this one has farmland directly adjoining
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    Fravor's Hypersonic UFO observation. Parallax Illusion? Comparing Accounts

    Yes, but I was thinking that precipitation radar works precisely because water drops/droplets generate radar returns.
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