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  1. Mendel

    Claim: People can walk through walls

    The problem is that your typical dance moves are not confined to a long piece of fan-fold computer paper... and can't be patented.
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    Reddit video - 27MAR22 Airline crew UAP sighting

    Object appeared approx 10-20 miles or approx 60 degrees below horizon while viewed from FO seat (right side) as we passed by. Squid boats again? What do the AIS trackers say?
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    Need help with calculating vertical speed of ascending shadow at sunset

    This is difficult because at typical altitudes, the angles involved are rather small, so it requires some accurate leveling to show that the shadow goes up. And because the sun's diameter is 0.5⁰, you also get that much of a penumbra, aka a fuzzy shadow with no exact line between light and dark...
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    Claim: People can walk through walls

    Note that the "walking through walls" is not actually patented. The claim encompasses the software to print the footsteps template, and to beep once per second while someone walks on that template. If the patent had been granted, nobody else could have shoehorned themselves in on the "training"...
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    Debunking Humor...

    So what's your dowsing handicap?
  6. Mendel

    Claim: People can walk through walls

    I'd like to elaborate a little on this. It's important to choose the right equation for the job at hand. This is the hard part. For example, remember story problems in maths at school: if you use the wrong formula, your result is nonsense even if your arithmetic is correct. The equation has to...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    A projectile exploded in a military encampment in Western Russia’s Belgorod Region on the border with Ukraine on Tuesday [March 29th], injuring four servicemen, an emergencies source told TASS. "A projectile fell on the territory of a military encampment in the Belogord Region. Four servicemen...
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    Claim: People can walk through walls

    attached Pointless. From the patent: This invention is a training System which enables a human being to acquire Sufficient hyperSpace energy in order to pull the body out of dimension So that the person can walk through Solid objects Such as wooden doors. "Hyperspace energy" isn't a thing...
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    Stand Up to Detect the Curve of the Earth

    Seeing Mick's refraction analysis, it's probably "stand up to see the sunrise again", which kinda goes against every intuitive notion of geometry.
  10. Mendel

    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Yep. Separate information sphere. Their facts and the mainstream facts are not the same.
  11. Mendel

    Help indentifying Silver Ball

    Wind conditions on the ground often differ from wind higher up.
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    It's probably still a nice place to visit? and to see how it's been affected by the war in the meantime, seeing as it's a month later now? and the park attached to it seems to actually have been hit. Our thread on Babyn Yar/Babi Yar is at...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Here's a historian, talking about the pitfalls of drawing conclusions from short/social media video clips, illustrated with actual examples. It's like a short course on how to watch these. Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3hiyVq44pK8 Transcript excerpts as summary/index: [description:]...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    The field dates for this survey are March 9-13, 2022. In total, a random sample of 1,035 Canadians aged 18 and over responded to the survey. [...] All respondents to our panel are recruited by telephone using random digit dialling and are confirmed by live interviewers. There are two possible...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    The inside of a supermarket or bakery would be interesting (or whatever is being used for food supply). Babyn Yar, the holocaust memorial, may also be worth a visit, to see if it's still intact.
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    Stand Up to Detect the Curve of the Earth

    I've had a look at the curve calculator ( https://www.metabunk.org/curve/ ), and due to curvature and standard refraction, the horizon dip changes by 0.04⁰ from 0 to 6 feet (large person standing up right at the edge of the sea), and by only 0.016⁰ going down 40 feet from 440 feet elevation...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Hard to say if this is debunked or not: Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning at peace talks on the Ukraine-Belarus border earlier this month, sources close to him say. The Chelsea FC owner - who has now recovered - reportedly suffered sore eyes and...
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    Russia and Ukraine Current Events

    Ukrainian forces recaptured the Kyiv suburb of Irpin on March 28. The Mayor of Irpin, Oleksandr Markushin, stated on March 28 that Ukrainian forces liberated Irpin and are conducting a “sweep” of the area, but warned that the city remains dangerous and asked civilians not to return to their...
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    Chernobyl during Russia and Ukraine Conflict

    Here's an unverified report. Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said. The two sources...
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