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From the 1969 'Battle of Britain' film. I extracted the shot from a 'fanvid' for the Iron Maiden song 'Aces High' which makes use of footage from the film, the contrail is visible between 2:40 - 2:42 in the clip. I'll update this when I've found the sequence in the film the footage comes from...

And it's that 'Police-free' language that is being seized on scaremongers on the Right to advance claims that activists want to dismantle police forces and replace them with nothing, I've seen plenty of cases of right-wing scaremongers twisting statements even more innocuous than this into...

Here is the article Bob Zimmerman linked to (You have been warned): https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapolis-city-council-disband-police-george-floyd

I found a good article on Snopes.com (From the AP) covering the 'Defund the Police' movement. https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/06/07/when-protesters-cry-defund-the-police-what-does-it-mean/ Sadly I've seen a lot of people on the other side of politics like Coast-to-Coasts AM 'Science Person'...

On the subject of Coronavirus conspiracy theories, skeptical YouTuber Myles Power has started a series on people exploiting the crisis to promote conspiracy theories, the first video covers anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva and her claims that the virus originated in GMO foods. Source...

Local shops are implementing purchase limits of two items per customer in certain foods, but it's still virtually impossible to get toilet paper unless you get to the store as close to opening as possible.

Planning to get up early tomorrow morning in the hope that I can get toilet paper at the local shop. In my area they cleaned out the cheapest stuff at the 'big box' stores and then moved onto the smaller shops. The one at the top of my street had all it's toilet paper and most of the paper...

I was reading a 1960 novel by author David Beaty ('Village of Stars') and stumbled across the quote attached which mentions a jet aircraft leaving contrails, which comes from page 108 of the 1962 printing. Some of David Beaty's novels are being reprinted in eBook form and this may become...

This is not an advert, but the opening illustration of the Readers Digest edition of Donald Gordon's (Pen name for Donald G. Payne, who also used the names James Vance Marshall and Ian Cameron.) 1962 novel 'Star-Raker' about a prototype SST with an 'Achilles Heel', there are two contrails in the...

A similar phenomenon happened in the US in 2001, there was an apparent string of shark attacks, which got a lot of media attention, but ironically that was in a year with lower attacks than average. Wikipedia has what seems to be a well put together article on the event: The Summer of the...

Going to listen to this one today. As someone who's old enough to remember 1980s 'Survivalists' (They planned to ride out WWIII in backwoods areas.) this will be a very interesting listen.

The quote in the title is attributed to Socrates and it used by Anti-vaxers and other peddlers of disinformation. Snopes.com looked into the origin of the quote and was only able to trace it online to a post on the Goodreads.com website from 2008. I went to that page and there is no information...

Thunderf00t has released his own video on the bankruptcy it contains a fair amount of sarcasm, but also covers a few other related 'water from air' proposals that have done the rounds.

Sadly conspiracy types like Coast2Coast AM's 'science' advisor are taking that announcement in the way they usually do with 'official statements' something to hype up into conspiracy . This news release, while still very vague about the criminal investigation, implies that there was a dangerous...

Fontus has now declared bankruptcy. Here is a report on the EEVblog

Weather manipulation is a very interesting subject, as are tropical cyclones. NOAA maintains a page on their Tropical Cyclone FAQ which covers various appearances of the idea in fiction, along with a section on 'Tropical cyclone Myths' which includes discussions of weather modification ideas...

Not a book, but a 1920 film (With modern royalty free music.) about clouds by the US Department of Agriculture, again it shows that clouds back then are no different from clouds now.

Dr Stuart Robbins over at the Exposing PseudoAstronomy podcast did an entire episode (118) devoted to this email, including how he thinks the story got started. Below is a link to the show notes for that episode. "Come one, come all! See the never-before-seen and never-to-be-seen again...

Robert Schaeffer, has been looking into the financial side of Tom DeLonges organization and has turned up an interesting story, when members of a conspiracy forum like Above Top Secret start having doubts, you know there is a problem: Just when it seems there's nothing new to be said about the...

Wikipedia has a list of 'false alarms' using the both the Emergency Alert System and the preceding Emergency Broadcast System, there was an incident in 1971 where someone put the 'wrong tape' into the machine during an exercise and triggered a nationwide alert. More pertinent to this event are...