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  1. Mendel

    1971 Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo

    The "fiducials [..] exposed with natural object light" refers to what laypeople would call grid marks, not the auxiliary data. FIDUCIAL MARKS: Index marks, located in the corners or edge-centres of an aerial photograph, rigidly connected with the camera lens through the camera body. They are...
  2. Mendel

    Debunking Humor...

    Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/CznECbx
  3. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    you have shown zero evidence for this you have shown zero evidence for this this looks like wishful thinking on your part and in hindsight, that would have been worse than what they did do, allocating the resources where they could actually make a difference—so why do you assume this would be...
  4. Mendel

    What evidence of aliens would convince skeptics?

    yes. the conundrum is that there really is tomato in there, even if it's not obvious. Your 'tomato salad argument' has us reject all aliens that aren't obviously aliens, so you're setting yourself up to potentially overlook an alien with that approach. If we telescopically tracked an object...
  5. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    Wrong. The objective of fighting a forest fire is the prevention of damage to people, property and assets. In addition it significantly contributes to environmental protection. Just start sourcing your claims. (and don't think I didn't notice you substituting "dangerous" for "deadly" there)...
  6. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    @Jeffrey Orling Simply stated, firefighting foam is a stable mass of small, air-filled bubbles with a lower density than oil, gasoline, or water. Foam is made up of three ingredients: water, a foam concentrate, and air. Water is mixed with a foam concentrate (proportioned) to form a foam...
  7. Mendel

    Bayesian argument to believe in aliens?

    Thank you, I only noticed after I had replied.
  8. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    dude, if you know a way to fight a building fire without water, PLEASE let someone know immediately, firefighters have been looking for a "creative solution" like that for centuries!
  9. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    Yes. Since you're familiar with it (as am I), you know that mission was not expected to be as dangerous as it turned out to be. Mistakes happen. Today, wildland firefighters can (and do) survive such situations easily. We have not discussed this here. But NIST has: 15. Why did WTC 7 collapse...
  10. Mendel

    Dinesh D'Souza /2000 Mules/: Pre-bunk potential?

    yeah, but then the film in this thread would at least be called "2000 mules?"
  11. Mendel

    1971 Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo

    "inter" is just Latin for "between". Intermission is a break between two acts. Interlock is a lock between two pieces. Intersection is a crossing between two streets. Intermarriage is a marriage between two groups. Etc.
  12. Mendel

    "Door" on Mars

    check the link policy (look in the "info" section on the Metabunk nav bar), you need to actually quote the content you're linking to when you post a link. E.g. like so: the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) told Snopes that it actually was a “very, very, very zoomed in shot of a tiny...
  13. Mendel

    What evidence of aliens would convince skeptics?

    so how do I verify that if I don't know what an alien looks like? if I can't even verify there's tomato in my soup?
  14. Mendel

    Bayesian argument to believe in aliens?

    I don't think you're doing Bayesian analysis right if you discard all priors that don't fit your narrative
  15. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    No, it's not. It's reasonable to risk your life to save someone else's, which is why the FDNY heroes went into the WTC towers. But it's not reasonable to risk your crew's life to save property that can be rebuilt. I doubt the WTC7 fire was even controllable with the resources at hand; you seem...
  16. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    You have quoted engineers, aka building designers, not fire fighters. Buildings of other types have collapsed from fires; I expect the fire chief did worry about this regarding WTC7, but recognized he could not prevent it without putting his crews in mortal danger. I resent the assumption that...
  17. Mendel

    Dinesh D'Souza /2000 Mules/: Pre-bunk potential?

    it's been mentioned in https://www.metabunk.org/threads/media-bias.11554/ already
  18. Mendel

    Can Skyscrapers Fall Over on Their Side?

    The impacts were not "along the base", but around the 80th and 95th floors.
  19. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Russian forces may be abandoning efforts at a wide encirclement of Ukrainian troops along the Izyum-Slovyansk-Debaltseve line in favor of shallower encirclements of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. Russian forces likely control almost all of Rubizhne as of May 12 and have likely seized the town of...
  20. Mendel

    What evidence of aliens would convince skeptics?

    Evidence of aliens is not acceptable if it requires us to believe the aliens have supernatural powers; and "breaks the known laws of physics" is just code for that. I have great confidence in the laws of physics. Arguments of the type "this fuzzy blob of pixels does impossible stuff and...
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