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  1. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    From your source: October 6, 2022 The Kremlin on Thursday denied reports that 700,000 Russians have fled the country since Moscow announced a mobilisation drive to call up hundreds of thousands to fight in Ukraine. "I don't think those numbers should be taken seriously," Peskov said when asked...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    @Z.W. Wolf Russia has almost 150 million population, and they mobilized 300 000, which is 0.2% of the population, or 1 in 500 people. Granted that includes children and pensioners, but if an economy collapses when less than 1% of the workers become unavailable, there's something else wrong with...
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    Geometry question about the radius of star trails

    I have been studying star paths, and have successfully used the following equations to map star paths in a multiple exposure photograph onto circles of a radius determined by the star's declination and my camera focal length and sensor size: I reason that the radius of a star trail in a...
  4. Mendel

    The Varginha UFO

    It might well be in the spirit of metabunk to collect these receipts, in https://www.metabunk.org/forums/people-debunked.18/ ; obviously it'd require citing these bunk claims.
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    Debunked: Snopes incorrectly states that Joe Biden incorrectly stated the most common price of gas

    I found that if you find the page via google (in privacy mode), it displays. The average, by contrast, isn’t encountered very often because it’s skewed by ultrahigh prices in one state: California. This fall, while many drivers were seeing gas in the low $3s, prices in California soared from...
  6. Mendel

    Baltic Pipeline Discussion (Current Events)

    Russia did not give evidence for its claim that a leading NATO member had sabotaged critical Russian infrastructure The interesting question is in fact, why have they stopped accusing the US?
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    NYT Story Anticipating the 2022 UAP Report

    Identifying airliners on metabunk is easy with the observation's location and time, though going back that many years is challenging and maybe impossible. I don't see a) that the UAP shows no exhaust, and b) why that is impossible. But I expect that is better discussed in a more relevant thread.
  8. Mendel

    NYT Story Anticipating the 2022 UAP Report

    It's not easy because we don't have an exact time and location. The Pentagon may know, though.
  9. Mendel

    Why are Starlink "Racetrack" Flares [Mostly] Reported from Planes?

    but wouldn't it work by looking South in the southern hemisphere? the point is to look towards the set sun, isn't it?
  10. Mendel

    Claim: Bushfires have not been affected by climate change, and are affected by impeded hazard reduction

    Assuming I have identified the point you're referring to, my counter is that the 100m fire break did not save the cars or the sheds and would not have saved the house had the inhabitants not been experienced fire fighters (I assume that's shat a CFA is?). The claim that the regulation size...
  11. Mendel

    Can White Swans exist?

    Flat Earth has no white swan. There is not a single photograph showing a long distance that looks like it should if Earth was flat. Not. a. single. one.
  12. Mendel

    Bugs and Suggestions for Metabunk.org

    you mean like https://www.metabunk.org/threads/2022-us-elections.12635/ ? :-p
  13. Mendel

    Are All UFO Reports Wrong, Or Are They Evidence That UFOs Exist?

    I'd do neither of these. You analyse the witness story to separate actual observations from interpretation and discount the latter; and then consider whether the person had the ability and opportunity to make these observations. "Suddenly accelerated very quickly and disappeared to the left"...
  14. Mendel

    Are All UFO Reports Wrong, Or Are They Evidence That UFOs Exist?

    Erich von Däniken, if you want to look him up, is the correct spelling, though Dave transcribed the pronunciation fairly well.
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    Are All UFO Reports Wrong, Or Are They Evidence That UFOs Exist?

    "I believe that witchcraft is real. There were hundreds, probably thousands of witches burned in the middle ages. They can't all be fake." Yet they were. Argument from incredulity Argument from incredulity, also known as argument from personal incredulity, appeal to common sense, or the divine...
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    Claim: Bushfires have not been affected by climate change, and are affected by impeded hazard reduction

    why do you feel a 30m fire break would have performed differently? given that the heat may well have blown up the hillside from the valley below?
  17. Mendel

    Misleading "worldwide" UFO reporting map - actually based on US data

    The Dutch King Willem-Alexander holds an ATPL (airline transport pilot license) and is qualified to fly Boeing 737s, which he regularly does. I know of no other nation that can top this. In mid-2017 the King trained to fly the Boeing 737. He obtained his licence in June 2017, allowing him to...
  18. Mendel

    The Varginha UFO

    this looks like Roswell 2.0
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