Debunking Humor...

[RTM]

If Big ChemBunny can silence you on Nextdoor, they are more powerful than we thought.

 

[FatPhil]

If Big ChemBunny can silence you on Nextdoor, they are more powerful than we thought.

It's worse than you first thought - their tendrils are everhere, they've infiltrated eastern Europe too! It looks like I'm going to need to build an anti-bunny bunny-suit out of HEPA filters!

 

[JMartJr]

Tucker Carlson I am available to do your show for SAG scale."

Don't settle for scale. Get at least "Scale plus 10," which tacks on 10% for your agent -- if you don't have an agent, you keep the 10. But to bring a major story like that to Tucker, I think you want travel and per diem on top, at the very least. I have no idea how the calculate residuals for webcasts, or if they even do -- if they don't, get double scale if you can as the FIRST residual payment is normally scale again.

PS: I am available to collect corroborating evidence at this location if chembunnies that include a large quantity of cat hair are any use to you. We can negotiate a percentage of whatever Tucker winds up paying you.

APS: It is extremely likely that I will use the "chembunnies" concept somewhere, at some point. Brilliant.

 

[Aaron3]

Don't settle for scale. Get at least "Scale plus 10," which tacks on 10% for your agent -- if you don't have an agent, you keep the 10. But to bring a major story like that to Tucker, I think you want travel and per diem on top, at the very least. I have no idea how the calculate residuals for webcasts, or if they even do -- if they don't, get double scale if you can as the FIRST residual payment is normally scale again.

PS: I am available to collect corroborating evidence at this location if chembunnies that include a large quantity of cat hair are any use to you. We can negotiate a percentage of whatever Tucker winds up paying you.

APS: It is extremely likely that I will use the "chembunnies" concept somewhere, at some point. Brilliant.

I was up last night, so clearly they are messing with my sleep. It's everywhere. I find them in friends houses. Use some tape and collect samples. If you look at them under a microscope they look different from dustbunnies.

 

[Ann K]

It is extremely likely that I will use the "chembunnies" concept somewhere, at some point. Brilliant.

We had them — in the chemistry lab where I worked — when they tried to save some money by cutting back on the cleaning staff. I taped one to a sign reading "D wing mascot: do not feed" and was told off disapprovingly, but at least we got the floors cleaned.

 

[JMartJr]

If you look at them under a microscope they look different from dustbunnies.

I notice they are persistent...

 

[John J.]

I notice they are persistent...

They did exist in the past, but they didn't hang around for long like they do now. My Mum would have noticed.

 

[John J.]

The thread 1971 Lake Cote / Lago de Cote UFO Aerial Photo has a post from @jackfrostvc (# 367) which contains a letter from Gene Huff, a sometime associate of Bob Lazar, discussing whether a (claimed) satellite photo of Area 51 shows a flying saucer:

In fairness, if someone wrote the blurb for the leaflet in a Testors kit- the color one, not the other one- then I for one won't question their credentials.

This is the kit. Please note, paints, polystyrene cement and element 115 not included.

 

[jackfrostvc]

@John J.

I must admit I chuckled at that a bit also. But then I realised there was some context.
There was more to the conversation, basically they were talking about the Testors Model and someone had brought up that Russian satellite pic (with appears to show a disc) which is included in the Testors Model.

 

[Mendel]

In fairness, if someone wrote the blurb for the leaflet in a Testors kit- the color one, not the other one- then I for one won't question their credentials.

Some people get published in peer-reviewed journals, others get published in the toy store.

 

[FatPhil]

Some people get published in peer-reviewed journals, others get published in the toy store.

I've heard of pay-to-play journals, but this is not what I imagined.

 

[Mendel]

If you're trying to remember a mnemonic, you're doing it wrong

 

[FatPhil]

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If you're trying to remember a mnemonic, you're doing it wrong

This one WFM: Sol Only, Loser

 

[JMartJr]

I have a handy mnemonic phrase to make it easier to remember the word "mnemonic:"

Machairodont
Numbats
Elinguate
Mastigophorous
Oenophobes,
Nostrification
Immanentizes
Cabotage

Which means, of course, "Sabre-toothed Australian marsupials remove the tongues from whip bearing wine haters, accepting degrees of a foreign college or university as equivalent to one from an institution of their own nation brings closer the time when we can sail between two ports in the same country." Sort of.

 

[John J.]

I can name every star in the solar system...

If you're trying to remember a mnemonic, you're doing it wrong

The Big Sun monopoly has had its own way far too long. Just as it dominated the market for parasols and sunglasses, it now sells sunscreen and solar panels, so there's a financial incentive not to question the orthodoxy of the lone star theorists.

Observations show us that most stars are in binary or trinary systems, and the Copernican principle states that observations from the Earth are representative of observations from the average position in the universe, so the solar system is probably pretty average*. Something like that.
And an average solar system is a binary solar system. That's science.

I propose the mnemonic SUN, "Sun, undetected Nemesis".
Admittedly Nemesis (Wikipedia, Nemesis (hypothetical star)) hasn't been shown to be real, but nor has homeopathy or Bigfoot.
Nemesis might not technically be part of the solar system, but that's a semantic distinction based on the traditional Western obsession with categorisation and arbitrary divisions (e.g. the species problem). There are no boundaries in space (except the lines between stars in a constellation. And stuff due to gravity etc.)

It should be no surprise Nemesis hasn't been found in sky surveys, it was probably behind one of the thousands of highly reflective ET satellites that Villarroel et al. have discovered in geosynchronous orbit at the time, and it isn't very bright.


*I'd give it at least a C+, but this is a subjective impression, not necessarily based on the latest astronomical/ cosmological findings.