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One of the most common grandiose delusions out there is: "I'm Jesus." At least three or four of them have to be Jesus.

What caused the L shape of the time lapse streaks in general? Related to but not the same thing that caused the wobbly streak. The oscillations caused the wobbly streak. After the bump, and after the oscillations died down, the position of the camera was a bit different. So the streaks due...

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That was my immediate thought, also. It would take just one small bump against the tripod/camera. Perhaps even a footstep? Scenario: Initial Bump: The camera is struck, causing an initial displacement. Immediate Response: The camera quickly moves in one direction. The streak begins because...

Closed? What do they mean by close a case?

There are three types of Starlink sightings: 1. Newly deployed and bunched up train. Witness mistakes the train for a single solid object. 2. Still fresh but strung out train. The witness describes it as a line of bright objects. 3. Fully deployed individual satellites. The witness...

Another case which involved a tight, newly deployed Starlink train: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/cylinder-shaped-object-in-essen-germany-starlink.12322/#post-267191

Reported as a disabled "space cruiser" in Culver California, 1956. C-57D seems to be a government code name. It was later able to take off on its own power. So, Michael Schratt looked at this image with me, he says that these little platforms this thing is on is consistent with the kind of...

The two instances we have of this photo vary in detail. Without a better example I'm not going into detail... but what I intuitively see here is not a diorama but a pre-photoshop cut and paste composite with several layers. To give an example of what I mean. here's Terry Gilliam showing how...

It's reasonable to assume that this public domain photo has been bootlegged over and over. There must be copies of copies of copies. This display copy is in a frame. The glass may be tinted. The print may be tinted. The blue tint may at least be partially due to preferential absorption of...

IMO, this is a rationalization. A self-serving rhetorical trick. He's devaluing the criticism and patting himself on the back in a what a good boy am I, look at the unmelted butter in my mouth fashion. When you seriously and solemnly present a photo which is intuitively phony, you deserve a...

UFO flaps have been fizzling out since the late 1940s.

Let's talk turkey... (Full disclosure: I asked GPT-4 to write this text, to save time.) My Prompt: Someone argues that there is an unknown civilization, native to Earth, that lives underground. They argue that while there is little evidence for this, no one can prove this civilization doesn't...

I like to think it's Leprechauns. Darby O'Gill and the Little People was one of my favorite movies as a kid; right up there with the Thief of Bagdad and Jason and the Argonauts. For that matter I prefer djinn or greek gods over Shaver's "detrimental robots" who kidnap humans for torture and food.

I gave this a winner rating because of the message. I'm going to try to fine tune the message. The claim is that the appeal to pareidolia is a rationalization to justify a cognitive bias. Not the cognitive bias itself. The title of the thread should be "Woo Scientists Once Again Accuse...

Chromosomes? Hmmm Maybe a cooling off period is in order.

Gaslighting behaviors are independent of the distal effect of questioning sanity. They are also independent of proximal effects. Are you sure you understand the concepts involved? I didn't make them up. Example: Mechanism: Fats, carbohydrates and salt are hard to come by in a natural...

What the heck are you disagreeing with? It's like disagreeing with conservation of momentum.

I'll try one more time. Gaslighting behaviors don't have to be conscious behaviors. They usually aren't, as a matter of fact. They are aggressive behaviors that have been selected for. Children often display gaslighting behaviors, for example. They often don't work. Usually don't. An...