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Another glaring anachronism: An Apollo command module, last used in 1975, but the helicopter is a Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk, first flight 1979, introduced into USN service 1984, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_SH-60_Seahawk

On the subject of AI slop, this fake image of the capsule has been circulating with the claim that the badge not being burnt shows fakery. I'd say there is a bit more of a problem with that fake. Not to mention the engineering issues...

It is not just the AI-generated image. There is AI-generated hyperrealistic video as well: source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrcset9gR6g

Phones generally use A_GNSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS

I think after you wake a phone up (ie to use the camera) it will initially take the position from the celltower location until GPS location becomes available., which can take up to a minute. Did you check the erroneous position to see if it was a...

Source: https://youtu.be/jVmg4LwbHNI?si=gE0rLhgptoovKI-G

Question about GPS in smartphones. I recently took an iphone photo while in a remote forest area with patchy cell service. I was standing still. The GPS location was off by almost 4km. The next photo I took, 2 mins later, was accurate. The photo...

Here's a 10 page thread where we considered an ATLAS launch https://www.metabunk.org/threads/could-the-gimbal-video-show-an-atlas-v-launch.12078/ Such movement (the 'J-HOOK' that mirrors the jet movement accounting for parallax) is essentially...

To be fair, we don't really know anything for certain about what the "witness" claimed regarding the sound it made. Nick Pope wrote about a "low humming sound" in Open Skies, Closed Minds, but I think he based his understanding of the case solely...

The best US effort at that time was the RAH-66 Comanche helicopter, and that program was axed in 2004 when it became clear drones could do a better job. If that had been clear in 1990, the Comanche program wouldn't have survived that long.

Thanks—yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And no matter what, no such aircraft would be found hovering at low altitude over Scotland. That's simply not how these planes are designed to operate. When some people claim it's some secret reconnaissance...

At risk of going too far off topic (although keeping within photoshop fakery of space flight imagery), a photo from that sequence on Apollo 9, is one that I made a doctored verson of, for my tongue in cheek "The Truth Can Now Be Told" thread on...

That doesn't stop some other politicians these days

That doesn't stop some other politicians these days

At risk of going too far off topic (although keeping within photoshop fakery of space flight imagery), a photo from that sequence on Apollo 9, is one that I made a doctored verson of, for my tongue in cheek "The Truth Can Now Be Told" thread on...