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Group agreement in the moment proves nothing. If five people are standing together at night, already primed to think something unusual is happening, and one of them says "beam coming down," the others are far more likely to interpret what they're...

Short update on papers: A Response to Watters et al. (2026) by Villarroel et al was published today (preprint). ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15171 I also attached the PDF. I haven't read it yet.

Short update on papers: A Response to Watters et al. (2026) by Villarroel et al was published today (preprint). ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15171 I also attached the PDF. I haven't read it yet.

There is a stream at the bottom of my cottage where bits of broken ceramics can be fished out on a regular basis. If I had telly airtime to fill I would speculate they are part of an alien space craft heat shield or similar. My Mum who is a...

Q. Does the video or the transcript establish how and when the alleged damage took place and the elapsed time to the alleged self healing? IOW unless they imaged it, started a timer and damaged it in a controlled manner, imaged the damage...

The exact one-tailed -value (testing a directional hypothesis) for the dichotomous association between transients and nuclear testing is = 0.046. *phew* - it's a good job you chose to take a one-tailed p-value, otherwise ... Can someone sic...

The Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observa- tions (VASCO) project (Villarroel et al. 2020) was originally de- signed to search for genuinely vanishing stars—objects that disap- pear without leaving any trace behind. Despite...

Short update on papers: A Response to Watters et al. (2026) by Villarroel et al was published today (preprint). ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15171 I also attached the PDF. I haven't read it yet.

Short update on papers: A Response to Watters et al. (2026) by Villarroel et al was published today (preprint). ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15171 I also attached the PDF. I haven't read it yet.

Special Relativity says there is none. There is a here-and-now, but you only asked for a now. So, addressing the obvious follow-up question: what selects the here-and-now? Alas that's just the ultimate crystalisation of the anthropic principle -...

Or how about, part of them which you communicate to others (while you’re still alive) enriches you and continues to “live”?

That's the very scientific definition. My definition was more about "human feels" based on a layman's version of listening to scicom. But based on your definition, what is left unanswered is "why now?" If it's all "one block," what decides this...

I have all the Westall interviews and posts I could find over the years, transcribed, and there's no result searching on purple (glow). I think a primary school child (as an adult) came out with a story of seeing aliens in the UFO, but nobody...

No, it's the ordinate with the time-like property in the differential equations (so it behaves as if it's a spacial dimension that's undergone a Wick rotation, and thus is effectively imaginary, as per Hawking's formulation). It just so happens...

I have received some new information. Despite what MNRAS 2022 says about Infrared catalogs, they were not used to perform optical dataset reductions. This applies also to PASP 2025 (Villarroel et. al). This alone impacts my pipeline quite...