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A short tale I wrote about "Phil", who partly inspired my thinking on this topic: Be Polite and Respectful If your goals are to effectively communicate, then you need to be polite and you need to respect your friend. People will push back when...

Here I did a quick stabilize and echo of the start. The only thing that kind of makes sense is some balloons or kites on a string. But the later zooming off seems to rule that out. They start out remarkably in sync with the camera, which seems...

I'm leaning towards it being fake. Anonymous Tik-Tok videos are not the best source. And why did they stop filiming? Why didn't hundreds of people see it?

That might work in private conversation if you know the person and have some understanding of how they will react. But on a public text-based forum (like Metabunk, or most of social media) its very easy for people to take mocking very badly. That...

"I believe that's wrong, here's why..."

Sure, but with the understanding that "direct" and "rude" are different things, right? "You're stupid to believe that." :mad: "That is a stupid thing you believe." :( "That's wrong, here's why I say that..." :)

There are people who believe deeply in the Bible and its tenets. For you to to belittle the Bible you are, in effect, belittling those people.

I've love to see "evidence of alien life." That's very likely going to be at a distance. The positive or negative effects of alien visitors very much depends on what they intend to do (or have done). Any type of interaction would likely be hugely...

I was scared of monsters with clawed hands abducting me in the darkness when I was a child. That was over 40 years ago. I'd love there to be evidence of alien life, and I think pretty much all science-minded people, including Shermer, and...

He did not. But it seems from the interview that there's nothing useful anyway.

The newly appointed deputy director, Tim Philips, will act as director if Kirkpatrick leaves before a new director is appointed (likely, based on how slow things move in Government). He might end up being the replacement. Department of...

I use the satellite.js library, which uses SGP4 https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js satellite.js A library to make satellite propagation via TLEs possible in the web. Provides the functions necessary for SGP4/SDP4 calculations, as...

A rough match - Starlinks criss-crossing near Venus. https://www.metabunk.org/u/XLOJo1.html

He's not really a witness. He responded to a call from a security guard who told him some contractors had seen a red square. He later read their statements, which he later lost, and now can't really remember very well.

The head of the Pentagon office responsible for investigating UFOs is stepping down from his post in December, he said in an exclusive interview Tuesday. Sean Kirkpatrick, the head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, is retiring from...