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Interesting edit history on that node. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8349849545/history#map=18/37.114520/-115.837489 And particularly the person who created it... :p

These type of questions always interest me. I think your hunch is right, there's a mutually reinforcing interplay between witness reports, popular culture depictions, and deliberate hoaxes of UFOs, at least from the end of the 1940s on...

Interesting edit history on that node. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8349849545/history#map=18/37.114520/-115.837489 And particularly the person who created it... :p

One of those “I didn’t see that when I took the photo”. (A twofer?)

@FatPhil was talking about mathematical differentials. Burning the midnight oil is an idiom that means to work or study late into the night.

Interesting edit history on that node. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8349849545/history#map=18/37.114520/-115.837489 And particularly the person who created it... :p

I was just browsing around various satellite imagery sources and was checking out Sentinel-2 in the Copernicus browser. It's not high enough resolution to be useful here but I was like "why is there a bunker looking label there?" Source...

this makes him look incompetent he should know the cost of taking "extra fuel" and why we don't do that on a whim

I was just browsing around various satellite imagery sources and was checking out Sentinel-2 in the Copernicus browser. It's not high enough resolution to be useful here but I was like "why is there a bunker looking label there?" Source...

It would be interesting to know whether the cultural idea of UFO =disc-with-dome led to all those fake discs with domes dangling from strings or tossed in the air, or did all the hoax pics create the cultural meme... I guess most likely they...

These type of questions always interest me. I think your hunch is right, there's a mutually reinforcing interplay between witness reports, popular culture depictions, and deliberate hoaxes of UFOs, at least from the end of the 1940s on...

I was just browsing around various satellite imagery sources and was checking out Sentinel-2 in the Copernicus browser. It's not high enough resolution to be useful here but I was like "why is there a bunker looking label there?" Source...

Compare (April 7th): https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-04/pope-leo-xiv-appeal-to-journalists-castel-gandolfo-7-april-2026.html the Pope said he wished simply to say, once again, what he had said in his Urbi et Orbi message on Sunday...

BTW, yes I see Patrick Stewart Bank. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/78923/how-did-patrick-stewart-bank-get-its-name

Satellite firm extends Middle East image delay to prevent use by US adversaries WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - California-based Planet Labs has expanded restrictions on accessing its imagery of the Middle East to prevent adversaries from using...