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Senators Jack Reed and Roger Wicker have an op-ed in the Washington Post about the danger of military's insufficient drone detection capabilities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/22/drone-attacks-us-troops/

I'm proposing a thread (or maybe a dedicated subforum) where photos can be posted with the task to geolocate them, for educational and training purposes, and yes. also for fun :cool: Also possible are variants where e.g. the time of a photo is hidden and must be determined. As a fairly easy...

David Keith intensifies his advocacy for SRM. To cool the planet in this century, humans must either remove carbon from the air or use solar geoengineering, a temporary measure that may reduce peak temperatures, extreme storms and other climatic changes. Humans might make the planet Earth more...

In social media and fringe news sites, claims resembling the following are popping up: Senators Elizabeth Warren (D), Amy Klobuchar (D) & Ron Wyden (D) issue a formal complaint in 2019 to Dominion Voting Systems. Among the complaints? Allegations of 'vote-switching.' Source...

October 28, by Christopher Flavelle: As the effects of climate change become more devastating, prominent research institutions and government agencies are focusing new money and attention on an idea once dismissed as science fiction: Artificially cooling the planet, in the hopes of buying...

Some advice by experts, not limited to QAnon. Article by Charlie Warzel. Largely follows the line of EFTRH which is good to notice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theories-family.html Increasingly, friends, colleagues and readers share the same story with me...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/24/qanon-believer-conspiracy-theory/

The DLR has chimed in with recent research about contrail coverage during the low-air-travel period. Travel restrictions put in place to stem the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a massive decline in global air traffic since mid-March 2020. The European air traffic control authority, EUROCONTROL...

A new series was introduced yesterday "about how the internet is changing, and how it’s changing us." The introducing article states: Last year, after the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand — a heinous mass murder committed by a white nationalist with ties to far-right internet...

While the Times found some problems with the study reviewed in the article, it highlights the impact that YouTube had - and still has, despite the introduced measures - on the spread of conspiracy theories. Climate change is a hoax, the Bible predicted President Trump’s election and Elon Musk is...

Some turmoil recently arose in France when a study manual for "Sciences Po" (political sciences) was found to contain a 9/11 conspiracy reference. The issue was first published on "Conspiracy Watch" (French)...

Longer piece in the NY Times Magazine by a former video editor for Infowars, including some graphic details further in. But it wasn’t the politics that initially drew me in. Jones had a way of imbuing the world with mystery, adding a layer of cinematic verisimilitude that caught my attention...

Didn't find a better place for this ... Washington Post article today: ‘We are Q’: A deranged conspiracy cult leaps from the Internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour [...] Believers in “QAnon,” as the conspiracy theory is known, were front and center at the Florida State Fairgrounds Expo...

In both moon landing hoax and flat earth context, a quote from Wernher von Braun (leader of the Apollo program) is used by believers. The claim is that he allegedly confirmed that it is impossible for a rocket to leave the earth at all. Source...

At least one photo captured the (partial) trail of the Falcon Heavy during launch. As in other rocket launches, it visualizes different conditions in atmospheric layers at different altitudes. There will likely appear video material about the launch that clears up the question if the trail...

A new article on a 'Carnicom Institute' site tries to make the case that samples sent to CC from all over the world are not threads made by ballooning spiders. However, on first glance the only indication for this is that they look a bit different when compared to self-collected spider webs...

It looks like the ex-Evergreen plane finally has its great moment. The state of California has enlisted one of the most powerful firefighting tools on the planet: a modified Boeing 747 aircraft that can drop 19,200 gallons of fire retardant. [...] Built in 1991, the 747-400 first flew for Japan...

The newly released (March 22nd) cloud atlas can be accessed here: https://www.wmocloudatlas.org Some outstanding photos in the image gallery there! Edit: Contrails are now called 'Cirrus homogenitus': https://www.wmocloudatlas.org/aircraft-condensation-trails.html

As seen on Sept. 25th - the peak of Grand Teton in stiff winds, creating condensation through pressure changes which are causing cooling. No other clouds around. Edit: While still 'aerodynamic' in a broader sense, the formation process is different from the one seen on aircraft wings as Skephu...

There is a relatively recent article in the German Wikipedia about the theoretical base of the famous Welsbach patent which is often quoted by chemtrail believers. The article's critique in a very small nutshell: Welsbach materials can't emit light without being considerably heated. They...