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The "Death's Head" on a the Death's Head Hawkmoth is reliably present on each moth as well, there's some gene that expresses as that pattern, but nothing evolutionarily pressured it towards looking like skull as far as we know it just the way it happened to go. So as random as a cloud? But on...

Apologies I meant predator not prey Deliberate no, but "intended" maybe? it's all a thought experiment to see where people draw the line on when the phrase applies. I don't think the Death's Head is thought to be defensive mimicry though, I was using the 2 examples as contrasting similar...

That quote is from the 2022 DNA analysis of hairs, the new one is from a carcass. DNA samples have been traced to Panthera before, the issues have often been the source of those samples, i.e. no verification that they were not trimmed / taken from rugs/trophies etc and added to carcasses ie...

It's seemingly more nuanced, the pattern does exist and our brain is responding in the same way as it would seeing a real face or a drawn face, there is a "face" it's not what we classify as a "real" face, i.e. the actual object of a person's face or an intentional representation of a face. So...

If they exist these cats are not native wild animals of course, they are likely escapees and currently they are not well known or documented to breed so they would not appear on current UK lists, there are invasive escapee sourced animals like mink that maintain populations based on...

I posted those images because the Owl moths 'eyes' are thought to be evolutionarily selected for to resemble eyes as a deterrent to prey, but the Death's Head Hawk moths 'skull' doesn't serve the same purpose and is probably just random chance that humans think it looks like a skull. So is one...

The only things we know that intentionally creates representations of faces are humans (maybe some chimps have been trained) If a human creates something that looks like a face but for whatever reason they intend to not be a face they would do so with knowledge that they were doing that, or if...

You have lost me to be honest, I cannot work out what you are trying to say.

Alien Attacker from Independence Day

In the other cases it's seeing artificial order where there is no order, and using "suggestion" to induce Pareidolia from weaker sources. For instance for the Baltic sea one when crashed spaceship was suggested, my mind went to Cylon Raider rather than Millenium Falcon, but there are probably a...

Entanglement does not transmit information faster than light, this is a common misunderstanding of the implication of non locality in QM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem Quantum mechanics is non-local in the sense...

It's worth mentioning that most (there are people with conditions that affect their perception of faces) humans are very massively inclined to take notice of faces and our brains are heavily engaged in face recognition and analysis. This is evolutionary, based on our existence as a highly...

It's prominence in US politics has found a bit of sticking point mostly it seems with the more anti-state/q-anon/election denying aligned Republicans (Burchett/Luna) but maybe also at least initially a little bit with the lefter leaning members of the Democratic party (was it AOC?) potentially...

The term flap is being used with 2 slightly different meanings, a flap can be localised to a group or area. Someone has a weird experience tells people and then suddenly everyone is looking up and seeing and misinterpreting things and it spreads within the group, say for example the US Navy. Or...

Sometimes things appear to travel betrween the clouds when in fact they are just not visible against the denser cloud background

UFOs and paranormal/supernatural/conspiratorial beliefs are rife with all types of apophenia. Faces on Mars. Jesus in toast. 3 lights are a triangular (or even a pyramidal) craft. UFOs over nuclear sites. etc

That's why all the fancy equipment, renders it very difficult to recreate, kind of like how we can't recreate gimbal because we don't have an F18.

The main issue with the rolling shutter theory is that sensors generally readout along the long axis, the presented photos are portrait which means rolling shutter would be left to right rather than top to bottom. If you Google image search 'rolling shutter lightning' you'll see examples in...

It has gone a bit quiet, the main things in the UFO sphere at the moment seems to be Some sort of amendment to declassify UFO stuff being pushed by Burchett (with supporting cast) A major PR push around Tim Gallaudet which was sort of doused a bit by his other beliefs in poltergeists and...

And possibly reflection the in roof of the white car.