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I'd like this explained, please. The naive answer is, 8 seconds later than he sent his message. An Alpha Centaurian will see the superluminal message at t"=0, send one back in the direction from whence it came that looks like empty space now, and over the subsequent 4 years AC's astronomers...

look at https://www.metabunk.org/threads/media-information-control-and-misinformation.12315/ unfortunately, the thread had to be closed

Plaster casts of tracks, easily forged; and given how many of these are around, some must've been.

He never went back and got better footage, did he? A wildlife photographer in this situation would build a camouflaged shelter and camp out near that trail for a week until he got better pictures. What reason would Patterson have to not do that, unless he knew the sighting was fake?

To really make financial sense he'd need to sell the book to a major publisher. Obstacles here are the low quality of the book, and copyright issues regarding the newspaper clippings and other external content.

It works much better and faster than shooting compressed air from a heavy air compressor through a hot glue gun.

that's a one-sided argument there are strong points in favor of releasing the book first, because the film would help sell the book nonetheless, even if the hoax was uncovered; and releasing the book together with the film would raise more suspicions about the film being a hoax. I think the...

probably one of the more harmless ones? the idea that bigfoot is still out there in hiding is interesting, unprovable, and if you don't attach any ideas of salvation to it, comparable to the "here be dragons" on early maps: a little bit of mystery left in a largely de-mystified world. And that...

bringing in "keyboard warriors" isn't likely to help, these people have stopped listening to anything that doesn't fit their world view. In your position, I'd contact the mod team, and ask for a) an anti-vax subforum/board be created, and b) for all anti-vax messages to be moved there (with the...

most of it has been debunked, it's not hard to find

In the below situation, we should expect to see a segment of an ellipse, not of a circle. And we do.

This is a great experiment! Simple to do, simple to grasp, straight to the point. The tilt of the ellipse depends on the observer height. (I've been looking at the rim of a drinking glass held sideways in the air to figure that out.) This is logical, as the ellipse has to be vertical when...

if you compare the door shadow to Mick's grid, you see that the sun must be right of center. We also know the angle is shallow because the shadows are very long, and because Mick determined its elevation to be 15⁰. Note that there aren't any sun spots from the roof on either wall. I don't see...

Very rough sketch, to show the approximate sun position via sun ray tracing, suggesting that the moving bright objects are lit via the window in the opposite gable

That's a problem for me, too. There's quite a range of motion, both horizontally and vertically, where the bright shape remains fully visible (and some boundary where it shrinks). How, if it is a thread, is only that short bit visible? shouldn't the visible part be longer? how does that work?

I suggest using an astrolabe. Do not look at the sun! Adjust the astrolabe to make the sun shine through the straw by monitoring the straw's shadow. You can then read off the zenith angle z of the sun (0⁰ means straight up). The next step is to find the subsolar point. A place that...

The mission's OSCE homepage links to an archive with all of the reports and releases. It's no secret at all. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) started its activities on 21 March 2014 and discontinued its operations on 31 March 2022. The SMM was an unarmed, civilian mission...

But the main word is "reingested", which also features in my quote, while reverse peristalsis does not. So technically, I did not quote that bit.

Well, what effects did you expect mindfulness to have? (And you do get psychosomatic effects from there.) I don't think yoga necessarily crosses over into woo?

I did not.