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Debatable. Yeah, our guys do the same by being photographed in pubs holding pints, meeting men with hard hats, and eating Gregg's pasties and bacon sandwiches in good old fashioned working class cafes.

In my experience people with PhDs are also prone to making basic errors or maintaining peculiar beliefs. And in some ways they may be more stubborn in defending said claim/belief since they're accustomed to being right and to understanding things other people don't.

Yep, ticks exactly once a second throughout the video. Seeings vids like this makes me wonder about the 'UAP' designation. A lot are really 'unidentified lights' when you get down to it, and even the implication of 'aerial' is sometimes implying far more than is actually there (though I suppose...

That would be an interesting one to shoot on purpose: find a spider and recreate it with an IR camera and add it to the library in case one like this pops up again in the future.

Strictly speaking I'm from the underclass - single parent unemployed Northern family; council housing; no hot water or heating in a ruined former coal mining village - but in my adult life I've associated with all kinds, right up to Lords and the landed. I don't ever remember our "differing...

What a fun post. I just wonder how much we can say about present day Britain based on Scott and Beatty and the era of steam. Things have surely changed a little since then? ;) PS I always thought Grayson Perry's 'All in the Best Possible Taste' was an excellent examination of how class works in...

Straight from the horse's mouth: "I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given...

Professor Simon Holland is a YouTuber (and presumably at some point was also a professor) who makes videos related to fringe topics explored from a seemingly scientific angle. In a video on the subject of what interviewee Paul Devereux calls "earth lights" Holland makes the claim that...

Not really; I know the shape of the Earth. ;) You're still thinking of using it as a flat earth debunk? Thought we'd ruled that out. Yeah, figured it would be pretty minimal pixel-wise, though a little surprised it's that extreme. Thanks for doing the maths. :) I guess another few years till...

Or take a high resolution photo and zoom in on your computer.

When you have the two sets of coordinates (positions) you can work out the distance between them.

Indeed. So if you took the GPS down to the base you'd be able to measure the difference between top and bottom. Problem is, it wouldn't mean anything to a flat earther - any number on a screen can be fabricated - and to everyone else it's just an interesting factoid.

Theoretical but not practical hits the nail on the head. Even if you could carry it out perfectly I'd say there's zero chance it would impress a committed flat earther; and for those who aren't fully committed there are much more obvious ways to show the Earth is a globe.

Going by the link in the OP the claim is really about: "whether more, smaller vehicles offer more capacity than fewer, larger ones" with New Jersey-New York used as an example of how many people can travel using a dedicated bus lane vs how many can travel by train.

And did you think, "ah, how nice it is to live on a street with not a lot of traffic"? ;) There are about 25 vehicles a day where I live. A bit much but I suppose it could be worse. Yes, good point. So for cars they're using the "US average" (rather than the tunnel average or the NY/NJ...

True, measuring from their centres. I was thinking the believer is more likely to focus on the distance between their glares rather than the centres, and therefore not find it convincing.

Just noticed that it links to here: https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-product/2019-annual-database-service-vehicle-inventory But I don't see what is being referenced.

Tell that to someone who lives on a street with 12 buses a minute! :D (No need to research whether anyone actually lives on that route, just being light-hearted.) Yep. Isn't it supposed to be "maximum capacity"? I agree, but that's not their claim. Their claim is: "Buses can carry more...

Where does their 1,437 passengers per subway train figure come from?

Current operating average is something over 460 buses per hour - so 725 represents quite a step up. https://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/lincoln-tunnel/xbl.html