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I read the Good Trouble Show article. It's an excellent example of how not to use LLM AIs for scientific analysis. There are two fair or "OKish" points made by AIs in this article, but the rest is totally unreliable. To the extent that even the...

Rough Sitch https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Syria 2021/20260204_183340.js For some reason I got the video exported at 60fps, so frames reflect that. It's actually at 30, so I'll have to redo a...

I read the Good Trouble Show article. It's an excellent example of how not to use LLM AIs for scientific analysis. There are two fair or "OKish" points made by AIs in this article, but the rest is totally unreliable. To the extent that even the...

Direction can also change. A balloon blowing towards the observer can seem to hover, as these planes do -- the planes are moving faster than a balloon! Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NzfMmuHnvi4?feature=share

While I agree with your general point, and it is true that the PF misidentified Venus, the evasive action mistake happened as a reaction to seeing the actual aircraft. See...

Very short update: project stats from yesterday. Many scripts and some docs updated, and the plate header JSON files published: https://github.com/jannefi/vasco/ - as usual, keep your own local copy up-to-date. I'm now using DuckDB...

Interesting! It would seem the listing of the whole VASCO project in The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena is what got Villarreol a co-authorship for it. Many, if not most, of the co-authors didn't appear to actually write...

(Continuing discussion from post #228 in the Digitised Sky Survey POSS-1 thread): Trouble in paradise? Four of the five authors of "Critical Evaluation of Studies Alleging Evidence for Technosignatures in the POSS1-E Photographic Plates"...

Interesting! It would seem the listing of the whole VASCO project in The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena is what got Villarreol a co-authorship for it. Many, if not most, of the co-authors didn't appear to actually write...

I suppose they were, actually. It's just that we're looking at things from two different perspectives. Personally, it's enough for me if the photo could be a fake made with small models. They, on the other hand, want hard evidence proving that...

Ah, I think I misunderstood a point you made in an earlier post (# 198). Is it right to say you don't think Carlos de Souza is telling the truth? The "Fantasies and Contradictions of the Varginha Case" article you linked to implies this (and I...

Interesting! It would seem the listing of the whole VASCO project in The New Science of Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena is what got Villarreol a co-authorship for it. Many, if not most, of the co-authors didn't appear to actually write...

Thanks. I want through the Watters et al. pre-print. Sigh. Good points, but this means more work, too. My pipeline keeps record of plate IDs, and all relevant info from full plate headers, which are now published in the repository. This is true...

(Continuing discussion from post #228 in the Digitised Sky Survey POSS-1 thread): Trouble in paradise? Four of the five authors of "Critical Evaluation of Studies Alleging Evidence for Technosignatures in the POSS1-E Photographic Plates"...