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FYI it's neither, K1 is the 22nd highest. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world and is located in the Karakoram Range on the border of China and Pakistan. The name K2 comes from the British surveyor T.G. Montgomerie who was the first to map the area. The “K” comes from the Karakoram...

Remember, Tyson is more of a theoretical physicist (not a weapons expert!), and in theory he's right: A pure fusion weapon is a hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission "primary" explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two heavy isotopes of hydrogen used in...

the reason I "ignore" you on this forum is that you ignore most things people tell you so here's a repeat, with some new info re: chaos added, because it's on topic: the finite element analysis software that NIST used 20 years ago can not model a collapse. It's data reduces the building to...

except it's often the same complaints echoed over and over like, the clip with the female officer and the suggestion to use tampons to staunch the blood flow (that @Ann K mentioned) is weeks old, at least. What we have here is anecdotal evidence being handed around, which may be indicative of a...

You seem to never have read a fantasy novel? Such as Light Sabers. We know what they do, even though it's impossible for them to do it. There is no known physics to describe what they do. There is no "humanly known physical law" that applies to them even though they're perfectly described in...

"fire" implies intent. Straight from the British Defense Secretary: “The reply by the Russian minister of defence on 10 October stated they have conducted an investigation into the circumstances of the incident and stated it was a technical malfunction of the SU-27 fighter. “They also...

it's a reference to the Philosopher's Stone The philosopher's stone or more properly philosophers' stone (Arabic: ḥajar al-falāsifa, Latin: lapis philosophorum), is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold (chrysopoeia, from the Greek χρυσός khrusos...

hasn't been working for a while, I assumed it was intentional

[..] we conducted an exclusive, wide-ranging survey with two of America’s leading scholarly experts on sheriffs, Emily Farris of Texas Christian University and Mirya Holman of Tulane University. We received answers from more than 500 sheriffs — roughly 1 in 6 nationwide. (Read about our...

Yes, I understand that. I'm trying to point out that people can use valid data to distract from the issues that actually matter; it's a way to make a bunk argument that can't be debunked by looking at the details (though it's obviously a good idea to do that anyway), but rather by pointing out...

all of these feel like super obvious claims to me, the question is, why pick/single out these metrics specifically? Inner city air quality will improve in the coming decade(s) as more vehicles are going to be electric. The real problem is energy expenditure per capita.

re: prisoners, see https://www.metabunk.org/threads/russia-and-ukraine-current-events.12289/post-266882 and following. (Ukraine has also recruited prisoners.) Reports of mobilized soldiers dying in Ukraine — from lawyers such as Nikiforov to residents of far-flung Siberian villages and even...

in this context, a prediction I saw yesterday might make sense Commander of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine Army General Sergey Surovikin reported during an appearance on Russian television that the Russian military leadership has to make “difficult decisions” regarding Kherson Oblast and...

If we had "pixels per degree" data, i.e. how many sensor pixels get illuminated by an arc of 1 degree looking straight ahead at full zoom, we'd be able to cross-convert pixel size, object dimensions, and distance.

The main point is that Mick presents an independent narrative which threatens certain people's agendas, and that's why he's excluded from the discussion as much as possible. Truth doesn't matter for this.

Yes. And hours or days before, the nuclear warhead has to be transported from secure storage to the hangar. If the warheads are all still in storage, Putin isn't able to attach them to any planes in the short term. Your original assertion, that these nukes are ready to be launched at a moment's...

yes, but they're labeled "cloud rotation", and real clouds don't rotate? if we think of clouds as unbumpable, then the bumps in the image must be pod bumps: lateral or rotational or both. (I think this is simply a presentation issue?)

So, basically, by assuming the jet flight and the cloud motion are not bumpy, you get a better cloud track. Does that mean you can graph the bumps of the pod camera now?

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My "something physical" includes optical effects or gases (clouds), not necessarily a solid object—it was meant to contrast @Rory's "sociology and folklore". In that sense, most observations (that aren't outright hallucinations) are probably based on something physical, but that physical...