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Welcome! https://www.metabunk.org/threads/sinusoidal-thin-contrails-explained-meandering-solitary-hybrid-contrails-the-rook-instability.4539/ This is likely a relevant thread to share those screenshots, as it appears to be a phenomenon discussed on the site before. You can upload the video to...

This example is nothing like Scaramanga's statement. His example would be like if that headline came out but it was a tamarin and while tiny it's still vastly larger than the smallest shrews. I'll give some examples...

Flat Earth usually goes hand in hand with general space denial, and one claim I've seen repeated several times is that there are no uncut videos of launches or reentries. Of course, there are a small number (and fairly good reasons why so few exist), and now there's one more which is easily the...

The rapid improvement in AI generation makes me suspicious of image proof of Wal Marts existing. The best models have solved the "mutant hands" problem most had a few years ago, and I've even seen examples of images generated of a store shelf that are consistently planogrammed and priced and the...

The thing about doing analysis here is that you need pretty precise data to identify a satellite. Your precise coordinates, precise coordinates in the sky, precise time... and you'll probably still get a list of possibilities. Try this page...

Because LLMs generate output in a form similar to how we do, it can be hard to envision how they can "read" and "speak" words they don't understand. So it's really useful to look at other AIs doing things that very smart people once said AIs can't do. So here's the story of Go AIs. It was once...

The angles work the same if you move the same number of degrees on a sphere of any size. However those degrees will translate to different distances on spheres of different sizes. The distance you walk to traverse 1 degree of latitude on Earth will go around a bowling ball numerous times, and...

That's exactly what it's designed to do. The AI is semi-randomly (in that if you do it multiple times you'll get different results) predicting the pixels of a hypothetical higher resolution version based on the pixels of the existing version (as well as it's other training data on what images...

My biggest question is if there are black leopards in England, why are there *only* reports of black leopards? The melanistic gene is recessive in leopards, and not all melanistic leopards are fully black, some are still spotted but with a darker background. That doesn't eliminate the...

Ukraine is probably not going to be able to push Russia out of Crimea (at this time, that is - anything in the months to come or next year would depend on what happens with the likely upcoming renewal of offensives) but if the area immediately north of the peninsula is retaken they can make it...

Not really... But at the same time not in any context a geocentric theorist is likely to embrace. The solar system viewed from the earth's inertial frame of reference is effectively a refined Tychonic system incorporating all those little "imperfections" Tycho himself sought to remove from the...

In spaceflight and astronomy sometimes a model more like Tycho's than reality is actually used, treating either the earth-sun or earth-moon relationship (or another like Jupiter-sun when looking at the Trojan asteroids) as fixed with everything else moving around them. Not because it's *correct*...

Government regulatory testing can be hilariously non-covert. There was a recent investigation of the tank farm at a GM plant in Michigan. The EPA rolled up with a mobile shelter truck, guys got out in hazmat suits with contained air supplies and started taking samples around the factory...

In addition to going for soft tissues first, once the easy soft bits are gone scavengers often go for the anus and mouth because those give direct access to the best bits without dealing with a lot of skin or hair. The tongue is a large and fairly exposed piece of muscle meat, and the anus is a...

Dunn's claims boil down to the quality of the work, which I mentioned way up thread is not a good indicator because through history, the quality of a single piece is reasonably close to a constant. Technology has improved materials and reduced the time investment in a single piece, but the...

I'm pretty sure the false horizon isn't the bottle. It's definitely not the surface of the water in the bottle, which is above the top edge of the phone. But with the record controls on the same side as the bottle, with every smart phone I'm familiar with the lens(es) would be at the opposite...

At the most casual level freshwater lakes usually are ranked by area rather than volume. You'll see Lake Superior get it's top billing without qualification all the time, and rarely even with qualification unless it's a scholarly source or a list that isn't ranked by surface area. On the other...

As another example, on another forum a user was trying to identify the film that a specific scene he recalled was from. When a bunch of movie nerds failed to come up with anything, he tried ChatGPT. Over several sessions it offered several movies, all real. It gave precise timestamps of the...

No, those were the Vogon ships right at the beginning. This fleet was one of those random side jokes that Douglass Adams would occasionally meander into for a page or so to break up less humorous segments.

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.