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The people who decide these telescope allocations are astrophysicists. They'd know there aren't any "aliens" there. They'd understand, "hey, we found phosphine, and that might mean organic chemistry!" It's big news. The original article quoted in post #1 talks about "microbes".

They don't write "aliens", they write "life", and ever since the news from Mars, we know that that's going to mean possibly single-cell organisms at best. "Aliens" is your own interpretation. CNN simply talks about whether Titan may be habitable.

Source: https://twitter.com/GregWEaton/status/1320808540680921088?s=19

A new analysis from the Center for American Progress finds that about half of the president’s 22 rallies held between June and September were followed by a county-level increase in COVID-19 cases, suggesting the events may have led to community spread.

That clarifies what I had on my mind: the lateral load from the wind is redirected by the construction into axial forces along the columns, so the whole design is not meant to support shear forces at all. It's all down to the 7/8 inch bolts.

I completely agree. Inertia is apparently one of the hardest things to understand, I know that Flat Earthers often get this wrong when they're considering what happens when you jump up from a surface moving at speed. If the chimney stack wants to fall down in a circular arc, then obviously the...

Have you done the experiment, dropping a biro on the edge of a table? It gets "pushed" quite a bit. If a 600 ft tall piece of wall falls over, the top will usually end up 600ft distant from the base of the wall. A simple computation showed that the energy to reach the alleged speed of the...

Yes. This global increase is driven by the surge in Europe. https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases

I liked this one. Keeps us humble. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbwWL5ezA4g James Randi has left us a great legacy.

This post made it onto the meme site I read regularly. It's very succinct. Why I started believing and how I stopped There were a few reasons that made me want to believe this stuff: I felt like everyone around me was wiser than I was, so by believing the conspiracies and researching them...

You are implying that there are no popular books and only government reports on 9/11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_about_the_September_11_attacks The problem with bigfoot isn't that there are books about bears; it's that there are books about bigfoot. If you want to talk to the...

I don't know much about John McPhee, but it seems he is one of these? You are citing a scientist who writes a popular book on their subject of expertise. That's something different, and often borne out of explaining something to people first before putting it in a book.

I am at a loss to see where you're coming from, can you show quotes? (1) The point has been made that there is no evidence that such a book would cut down on conspiracy theories (and conspiracy theorists). If your claim is that such a book prevents CTs and "would do a lot of good", do you have...

There's a strong resurgence of the epidemic in Europe now that the weather has become colder. Distribution of laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA and the UK, as of 17 October 14-day COVID-19 case notification rate per 100 000, weeks 40-41 In most countries, the situation is...

A big issue is that we're looking at claims that aren't backed up by evidence: " If investigators were questioning how buildings are designed in America, then either those questions were answered, or design practices changed, or a bit of both" is not a claim of evidence, it is a profession of...

I don't see anyone arguing that the WTC buildings are in any way special, or that most other skyscrapers would certainly survive such a catastrophic crash. Crashing an airliner into any building except a nuclear reactor containment (which is supposedly designed for it) will have unanticipated...

Uncontrolled explosion, Beirut, August 4th, 2020 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKS0VDbltNU The smartphone picks it up just fine. As with a lightning or a thunder-clap, a close-by recording of an explosion has more higher frequencies in it; the further away you get, the more high...

Further examination has been conducted in the Kecksburg case. The Sci-Fi (now Syfy) Channel sponsored a study of the area in 2003 and concluded that something did crash into the woods in 1965. This conclusion was due to the damage to the trees and disruption to the soil that scientists found...