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It's just a fun, easy, and relatively safe feature to add. It helps validate the overall model.

I've watched just the first half of this so far. I think it's quite clear that he used the term "disappointing" in the context of "people in the government promised us that UFOs are real" (paraphrase). It's exactly the term I'd have chosen.

This phenomenon is growing exponentially...these are from the past 4 days alone.

Thread about the patent here, US Navy "UFO" patent by Salvatore Cezar Pais (also relevant post #41 by @FatPhil in the Meta Materials From UFOs thread). In that thread, @flarkey linked to The War Zone article "The Navy Finally Speaks Up About...

Thank you. There are massive red flags in that wikipedia article: He reported that he began in 2015 to publish his patents "after rejections from academic publishing" No working prototype of any of the patented inventions was ever developed...

I rarely take book buying advice from random unemployed guys... jk

I don't find "My simulation of X can cause Y" to be a better proof that X can cause Y than evidence of X causing Y, and all these things you're asking for a simulation of are things we've got actual physical evidence of. I hope.

I don't find "My simulation of X can cause Y" to be a better proof that X can cause Y than evidence of X causing Y, and all these things you're asking for a simulation of are things we've got actual physical evidence of. I hope.

But is he really? He's always struck me as just a person who'd made his mind up, but then who flipped to making his mind up in a different way. Shermer thinks that "aliens are sky gods for skeptics" - does he even know what a skeptic is? 03:50...

There are plenty of paranormal cases which could have been caused by brocken spectre, Bigfoot sightings of fleetingly captured large moving figures for example. Being able to simulate them as part of an investigation is only a plus.

But is he really? He's always struck me as just a person who'd made his mind up, but then who flipped to making his mind up in a different way. Shermer thinks that "aliens are sky gods for skeptics" - does he even know what a skeptic is? 03:50...

What's the bunk that needs debunking, and how will this being a feature in sitrec help the debunk better than just a link to a wikipedia page, say? This is screaming "some features are good, therefore more features are better" to me. C.f...

Plus it was allowed to expire. If it was patenting something that actually worked, it would be of extraordinary importance and value. But it was allowed to expire for non payment of maintenance fees?

I'd fold some of those together for simplicity. NOTE: My assumption is that the ultimate goal here is to establish if there is a new phenomenon and, if so, to establish what it is. JM0 -- Things that have been identified, same as their...

Loeb is rather unscientifically binary in his approach: "Either we are dealing with a serious breach of national security or with the biggest scientific discovery in history." Very much rules out misperception and hucksterism.