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It does flood the area with sunlight. That's called daytime.

Given your confidence in this, I can only assume that this has been corroborated by numerous independent tests. Can you share a link to any of them?

You can also visualize an extreme case where a plane flies from one point to another point that's 180° of longitude away. In that case, flying directly over the nearest pole would be the shortest route on a globe, and on a flat map projection would look like two separate vertical lines.

My high school chemistry teacher would invoke this directly. When she was introducing new concepts she'd often say "I'm going to lie to you about this" to warn us that we'd first be getting the simplified, not-quite-correct explanation for things, and then later in the course we'd be filled in...

So how do you keep yourself from turning right or left? I get that you wouldn't be steering, but how would you account for things like the fact that the plane might be veering to one side, or that changes in the wind might send it off course? Flying straight isn't just "not steering".

Even without doing any calculations it's clear that the height difference couldn't possibly be accounted for by the distance. Without a curve, the blades of the further turbines would get half submerged in the ocean on every rotation. Compare this image of the turbines up close: On the more...

Well, "looks" in terms of how our brains interpret the colors unless we're aware of the illusion. Your brain sees something it recognizes (strawberries) that are usually a certain color (red) portrayed in an image that is radically altered to emphasize a different color (blue). So it tries to...

Eh, phrasing. I don't think of it as misleading; the way I read it is that it's referring to the fact that none of the colors in the image would be called "red" when taken out of context, rather than referring to the specific RGB makeup of the image. Talking about it in terms of pixels does...

Looks like the turbulence and "plumes" are caused by the (seven) walls between the gates, not the gates themselves. I'd guess the force of the flows coming back together forces some of the water upward.

If they just superimposed him over a view of the boat, that should have been plainly obvious when the camera panned away; he would've stuck out visually like they'd pasted a paper doll over the video. Instead, he shifts in the same perspective as the environment around him. The only way around...

The A block of The Rachel Maddow Show last night was dedicated to covering the spillway failure, not so much in a technical breakdown sort of way but more of a "hey you guys this is happening" sort of way. The block mostly gave some background on the dam's history and some perspective on how...

Saw some fun clouds while on a trip over the weekend.

Saw a neat contrail shadow today. You can see it on multiple cloud layers and at a pretty steep angle because of where the sun is. Also some interesting crepuscular rays from where the sun is shining through the clouds, almost made it feel like it had a "zooming in" effect added to it.

Source: https://twitter.com/hateshaliek/status/829097929080123392

Or at least keep their mouth closed when they look up. Never know when a rogue chembird might strike.

I disagree. When you have people claiming that 1) there's molten metal, 2) said metal can only reach that state when it's above a certain temperature, and 3) that those temperatures can only be reached by deliberately sabotaging the structure of the building, I think pointing out that, no...

And no radar buried ten feet underground could see a target anywhere. Imagine a flashlight that's advertised as able to be seen from a mile away. You and a friend stand a mile apart across an open field and your friend shines the flashlight at you. You are able to see the light across the...

If you wanna stop believing in hills too, then sure.

This means that maximum effective distance of the radar signal, before it starts to act wonky and/or stop detecting things well, is 72 (or 177) miles, so the Garmin won't be able to detect e.g. a plane that's 100 miles away. It's not a promise that everything within a 72 (or 177) mile radius is...

I remember having this thought before, except it was about seeing the reflection of the sun on a car. Why wouldn't the entire car be awash with blinding light? Thinking about it, though, I realized what Trailblazer described above: only a certain area of the car would reflect the photons from...