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Did you see their 'Story of the Twos'? I just caught it recently: amazing. And 'An Evening With' was brilliant too.

No I'm not. ;) And just to say: I think bringing the shipping routes into this is great. I know you haven't had much feedback - from either side - but I think that's just testament to how straightforward and inarguable this is. It's just like, oh yeah, there's nothing to either add to or debate...

PS I would say that they're using the word "consider" in the 4th meaning here: As in, "we consider this matter closed" rather than, "we have considered your proposal but..."

Mick said, "AE911 seems convinced". Their report says, "The most plausible explanation...appears to be" and "investigators should consider CD...as the most likely hypothesis." Maybe "convinced" is slightly stronger than the wording used in the sentences quoted above. But it does appear to be...

Perhaps a more pertinent, cut-to-the-chase approach to this photo would be to simply ask: "Why does the 103 foot high Matinicus Isle appear to be significantly lower than the 31 foot high Marblehead Island?" UPDATE: Apologies. I rushed that thought and got myself a little backwards...

Also, can you show some evidence for your claim - presumably with magnetic declination taken into account?

Can I suggest trying to stay on the topic of the photos you posted please? This thread is bouncing all over the place. Is the above picture the one you want looking at? If so, can you post: the camera location; the elevation above the water; and what it is we're looking at (ie, the near island...

Gotcha. I think probably like most people I took "clear visibility" to mean there wasn't any fog or haze or low cloud or mist, etc. Refraction, meanwhile, isn't a "contortion", but a well understood and explained phenomenom of light. For a real world test I would say you could film Mantinicus...

I make Mantinicus pretty much bang on 16 miles from your stated viewing point. The elevation of the island seems to mostly range from 20-60 feet above sea level, with places up to 100 feet. At 16 miles, you're correct, very little of Mantinicus Isle should be seen, given standard refraction -...

You mean it's appearing as 14th of the non-pinned posts?

Should X not be curved line also?

They tend to see what they want to see. I guess that's true for most of us, to varying degrees. But moreso for some. ;)

I like how that graph shows less risk for 180g/d than it does for 155. :)

Gosh. There's a tough question. I think there are people who are "serious" that it wasn't the moon - and adamant, too (that Hare Krishna fella I linked to earlier, for example, still thinks it was Rahu, and that the moon was way beyond the sun). But by your definition of the word "serious"...I...

Agree with that. So it looks like some discrepancy with the figures. The table you posted shows, for total meat, just over 103lbs per person per annum, while the figure from the FAO was 2.6 times that (271lbs). The FAO figure is also the one used on wikipedia (265lbs pppa for 2009). There, I...

One place I looked was here: www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters At 270.7 pounds per person a year, [the US] eats more meat per person than in almost any other country on the planet. Only the Luxumbourgers eat more meat than we do.That's 336...

Question: Is there any way to know for sure what the elevation of this mountain (and, by logical extension, any mountain) actually is? Hikingupward.com says 5342 feet, and peakbagger.com have it down as 5320-5360 feet (based on NAVD88), presumably because there's a contour line at 5320 feet...

Actually, this may be one of the rare occasions where dishonest scare tactics could (were they actually heeded) do a lot more good than harm - and I'm not talking just in terms of human lives. But that's another topic. ;) Why quote the figure of 50 grams per day? Average consumption of red...

Y'all are probably wondering - on the edge of your seats wondering, yet simultaneously too shy to ask - how I estimate the apparent viewing angles in the photos. Well, now that I've got my system down, and since you ask so nicely, I'll tell you: 1. Note the y-coordinates (ie, pixel heights) of...

Interesting that in the description the uploader casts some doubt on whether an earthling-made trail should look like that: I assume it's the Space X rocket, but could also be some other craft leaving the planet. The trail should be straight, but the pig tail curl of it is very confusing. I'm...