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  1. Mendel

    Pentagon June 2021 Report on 120+ UAP Incidents

    gotta love the 4 times the report calls them UPA. lack of proofreading/editing is evident from page 1.
  2. Mendel

    Could The Gimbal Video Show an Atlas V Launch?

    As mentioned on the thread you linked.
  3. Mendel

    Headline: "Famous Navy UFO video is camera glare hiding something ‘really interesting’, researcher says"

    Note that this, too, was a collaborative effort. @jarlrmai didn't come up with the "upturned shopping trolley" metaphor that he used to facilitate your understanding.
  4. Mendel

    Headline: "Famous Navy UFO video is camera glare hiding something ‘really interesting’, researcher says"

    Friendly is the opposite of antagonistic. Antagonistic types of questions are e.g. trying to "catch you in a lie", assume the other party is malicious, or generally any type of power play that fails to recognize nobody is obligated to answer. Understanding someone else is a process of...
  5. Mendel

    Could The Gimbal Video Show an Atlas V Launch?

    It also works for air targets, but it requires two simultaneous observations with a sufficiently wide base line (which the ATFLIR lacks) [or two non-simultaneous observations of a stationary target]. The angle of sight of a rangefinder and the range to the target can be combined in a simple...
  6. Mendel

    Pentagon June 2021 Report on 120+ UAP Incidents

    could you provide some quotes that show what you mean? (same to @Domzh ?)
  7. Mendel

    Claim: A Mariupol hospital was hiding members of the Azov Battalion, and other claims by Russia

    From the Security Council meeting record of March 7 via https://research.un.org/en/docs/sc/quick/meetings/2022 : Local residents said that Ukraine’s armed forces forced staff out of a maternity clinic No.1 in Mariupol and then established a firing site in the clinic. That quote is the full...
  8. Mendel

    Headline: "Famous Navy UFO video is camera glare hiding something ‘really interesting’, researcher says"

    That's an insulting way to say "I don't get what you're saying, could you please explain?" The key mistake you're making is to assume that this platform is just for communication—if that were true, we'd be no more than the indoctrinated scientismics the CTists would have us be. But in fact...
  9. Mendel

    Potential Home Video of Recently Reported Hypersonic Kinzhal Missile

    If you diagram this, you get an isosceles triangle, not a right triangle, and that makes the derivation at https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/machang.html wrong.
  10. Mendel

    Potential Home Video of Recently Reported Hypersonic Kinzhal Missile

    you can get the approximate altitude/distance from the timing via the speed of sound and the delay between when the object is seen overhead and when the boom is heard. the angular velocity would then yield the speed.
  11. Mendel

    Potential Home Video of Recently Reported Hypersonic Kinzhal Missile

    Where was the video taken, and what direction did the object travel? "The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region," the...
  12. Mendel

    Potential Home Video of Recently Reported Hypersonic Kinzhal Missile

    There are two boom sounds in the video, which is one too many for a hypersonic boom, so one of these is probably an explosion (or artillery fire). And when there's one explosion, there may be two? I think the boom doesn't sound like sonic booms I've heard, but it's been awhile.
  13. Mendel

    2008 UFO Footage From Kumburgaz, Turkey

    Neither does the Kumburgaz UFO. Fighter pilots go to high altitudes with oxygen masks, not with a pressurized cockpit. I'm not going to look for photos of aircraft with a sliding canopy, and pilots who appear larger standing up than sitting down in an open cockpit, but they're out there.
  14. Mendel

    Debunking Humor...

    >Make the Humor Thread Humorous Again<
  15. Mendel

    2008 UFO Footage From Kumburgaz, Turkey

    not the best picture, but Fokker E.III, in 1916 argument by incredulity is always iffy, no matter which side you're trying to support
  16. Mendel

    Debunking Humor...

    Chris Sacchim is the author of the tweet. He satirizes Russia's position that Ukraine are the bad guy nazis ready to attack Russians with bioweapons (and vodka!) by comparing it to Jussie Smollet's staged claim of being the victim of a hate crime. Smollet isn't funny, but Sacchim is. But I...
  17. Mendel

    Debunking Humor...

    I don't believe your position that political satire is akin to false rape accusations is shared by many. I'm personally more worried about believable lies than about satire.
  18. Mendel

    Headline: "Famous Navy UFO video is camera glare hiding something ‘really interesting’, researcher says"

    from the msn article However UFO investigator Mick West says there are four aspects of the footage that suggest it is, in fact, a camera artefact rather than an alien craft: [1] no rotation when banking, [2] bumps before rotation, [3] rotating patterns, and [4] derotation matches – where the...
  19. Mendel

    Debunking Humor...

    Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/CSacchim/status/1504499348276658180
  20. Mendel

    Headline: "Famous Navy UFO video is camera glare hiding something ‘really interesting’, researcher says"

    That object is still unknown, he says, and could be “really interesting”, but information extracted from the Navy videos suggest that an alien craft may not be the best explanation. That's not too bad. I'm more peeved that they don't seem to link to Mick's video or Metabunk.
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