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GM4AJK replied to the thread Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?.Yeah, I knew that one. Don't you too feel that's an entirely unsatisfying answer? -
Since the "recreation" was made by Nick Pope, who at the time had no reason to believe anyone would ever get to see the real photograph, it's necessary to take the whole thing with a large grain of salt. He added a clearly visible Harrier jet to... -
Ann K replied to the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked?.No, the search for synchronicity comes when you install miles of red string connecting all those clippings... ;)
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Ann K reacted to Todd Feinman's post in the thread The Ariel School, Zimbabwe UFO sighting - has it ever been debunked? with
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Nice! That’s how it starts.. Curiosity, and then 20 years later with your walls covered with newspaper clippings and diagrams, the little white bus shows up.. -
Ann K replied to the thread Synchronicity - What's your experience of it?.Thank you. I lost a nephew yesterday, a man younger than my children, so the subject is much on my mind right now. And at my age, my own death is looming, and the same is true for most of my circle of friends. I'm not afraid of being dead...
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Gary C replied to the thread Digitized Sky Survey POSS-1.So she's hoping no other astronomers are aware of the Galileo Fallacy? -
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.
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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...
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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... -
Chief Gleeby reacted to Mendel's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with
Wow.
https://imgur.com/gallery/fake-news-2jHdoAQ The photo seems to be from 2024 (or earlier) and shows a rare (critically endangered) black-chinned honeyeater, documented in the best way possible. :) The City of Onkaparinga is located on the... -
Gary C reacted to FatPhil's post in the thread Synchronicity - What's your experience of it? with
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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 -... -
Chief Gleeby reacted to Trailblazer's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Funny.
The manufacturer of those patio slabs should use this in their advertising. Not even a crack!
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Chief Gleeby reacted to JMartJr's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Like.
Nice, thank you. That would then require fakery to involve acquiring an actual meteorite, bashing it with a hammer or something, and making a neat little starburst pattern to film for the second shot. Convoluted but possible. Not that I think...
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Chief Gleeby reacted to Mick West's post in the thread Rare things that have been documented much better than UFOs with Wow.
A meteorite hitting the ground, with audio. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6611907
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Gary C reacted to GM4AJK's post in the thread Synchronicity - What's your experience of it? with Like.
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...
