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  1. Mendel

    Help: Panorama Maker and the Curvature of the Earth

    Play around a little with Walter Bislin's app at http://walter.bislins.ch/bloge/index.asp?page=Finding+the+curvature+of+the+Earth In particular, go to a height that has obvious curvature (40 km in this case), then slide the viewing angle (65.008° in this picture) down to 1° or less. As you can...
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    "Stop global roll out of 5G networks until safety is confirmed", urges "expert"

    Essay Electromagnetic fields, 5G and health: what about the precautionary principle? http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3912-4214John William Frank Abstract New fifth generation (5G) telecommunications systems, now being rolled out globally, have become the subject of a fierce controversy. Some...
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    Explained: 82nd Airborne: "A Storm Is Coming" - Operation Devil Storm

    "There's trouble at the mill" is actually a very real observance, since the millers used the position of the sails to send simple messages (like "taking a long/short break"): When the upper sail has been fixed after having passed through the highest position, it means that the culminating...
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    Post Election Social Media Crackdowns

    Per CNN, Parler’s domain is currently registered with Epik, a DNS provider known for offering a safe haven to websites like 8chan and The Daily Stormer in the past. A tweet from Dave Temkin, Netflix’s vice-president of network and systems, suggests Russia’s DDOS Guard is hosting the website.
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    Light source from the mirror

    The desk lamp is set differently on the first night than it is in every other shot. direct view mirror view first night second night room reference picture
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    Flying Object Timelapse - Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

    They shrink 18% going from the first full dash to the seventh.
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    Report: "23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine" (NY Post)

    6/12000 = 1/2000 = 0.0005 = 0.05% , that is approximately ten times less than the number of people who'd be expected to die of a novel coronavirus infection in the general population. If these 12,000 new vaccinations were predominantly older people, it could be up to 100 times less. For...
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    Flying Object Timelapse - Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

    They'd need to catch the light from someplace else. Wikipedia says (unsourced) that the lighthouse is mostly dark: Flash pattern: 1 second flash, 6.5 second ellipse
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    Report: "23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine" (NY Post)

    If the vaccination stops older people from dying from Covid, then 13 vaccination-related deaths is sad, but still an improvement. Obviously it's a lot better to not kill people with the vaccine! But that's also difficult to predict. We don't have exact numbers; if we have 13 deaths in 10,000...
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    Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

    The Mayo clinic says nothing about the wording of the question. I believe that anyone who replies "true" to "COVID-19 was created in a lab in China" is misinformed. I do not think an informed person would read that to be true no matter how you choose to interpret it.
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    Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

    Deirdre, as you can see from the first image in the first post in this thread, there is a sizeable number of respondents answering "don't know". 13% of Democrats believe in that particular conspiracy theory. I hae already quoted from the detailed survey data; here's the data you are concerned...
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    Debunked: Trump's Claim of "1,126,940 votes created out of thin air" in PA

    It's not about the time it takes to get a response, it's about using the limited time you have to get the complaint files most productively. In a normal proceeding, with no time pressure, they'd have had time to get a helper to check on this; but being pressed for time, everyone in their office...
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    Death of Ashli Babbit in the US Capitol

    Since we're talking about John Sullivan, let's debunk the claim that he's a "left-wing activist". It's already fairly clear from the evidence in the affidavit that I quoted in my previous post. He's also been excluded from actual left-wing protest groups as far back as November: Source...
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    Death of Ashli Babbit in the US Capitol

    I don't know if that's provably true; it would depend on whether they had radio communications and what that effected; what they heard from other officers behind the door; and how spotting the troop coming up the stairs affected them. But that's not actually important for the videographer's...
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    Deployment of National Guard during The Capitol Riot

    The Army is working to determine which National Guard troops assisting the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration require additional security checks, and is also offering more training on threat detection for those Guardsmen arriving to Washington, D.C., in the coming days, according to the service...
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    Deployment of National Guard during The Capitol Riot

    This is 4 days old, I apologize for not posting it sooner. Source: https://twitter.com/RepJasonCrow/status/1348391040370282501
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    Death of Ashli Babbit in the US Capitol

    The mob beat officer Sicknick to death. The danger was real.
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    Claim:HIV Protein Sequences in Covid-19 (report withdrawn by authors) & other "man made" claims

    I've slept on this, and I now have an opinion on the subtext of this opinion piece in PNAS. Fairly early on in the pandemic, most virus experts working in the field came to the consensus that the genetic makeup of this virus showed evidence it wasn't engineered. They called for an investigation...
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    Claim: Men in black "Threatened a hotel manager" in 2009

    Or MIB cosplayers even...
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    2020 US Election - Current Events

    More like "vigilantes are cool".
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