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It's not that Avi has engaged in the sort of behavior we normally associate with fraud. But he has both the training and the experience to recognize that his rash of claims about ETs based on interstellar comets and sea floor particles have been...

Since plasma balls would consist of ionised particles that are similarly charged and mutually repel one another, most forms of plasma fly apart in a very short period - seconds or less. Or they cool down and become ordinary gases, which quickly...

On stats, I defer to you as I think you're more on top of tha subject than I am (it was pretty much my weakest compulsory course at uni, I was more into fundamentals and algebra, almost anything with an integral sign I shunned), but I don't like...

And they also don't understand how Bayes works. A phenomenon must have a better chance to be explained by an UFO rather than by mundane causes to move the posterior probability towards UFOs from the abyss where it rests at the moment. In the...

I'd like to mention that not every aircraft will show up via the ADSB app I use. I know of one pilot who's helicopter never shows up. It passes inspection but every time we try to find it through flighttracker24, past or present, we can't...

Tree in the way of your view? When using the Google Earth 3D Buildings, you often get very bushy trees that block the view in an unrealistic way. Sometimes you even get buildings that are not there anymore. Now there's a new option. The...

It's not that Avi has engaged in the sort of behavior we normally associate with fraud. But he has both the training and the experience to recognize that his rash of claims about ETs based on interstellar comets and sea floor particles have been...

I was at one time a fan of Dave's videos. They have become more strident, less entertaining and in many ways less informative and useful. It's a shame. For those not familiar with him, he seems to have originally focused on online tutorials on...

I honestly can’t stand the guy, too much anger and aggression. It’s just not my cup of tea. Avi is surely someone who needs to be criticized (just like any other scientist, they’re all human), and I also think he comes to conclusions too easily...

I feel criticism of Loeb's pronouncements about possible evidence of ETI is more than justified. I don't like the style of "Professor Dave's" videos, but I guess that's down to personal taste. Dave's comment at 5 mins 10 secs into the video...

I'm only ten whole minutes in and he's poked his rusty screwdriver between most ribs already and twisted several times (so let that be a warning to readers and potential viewers of a more delicate disposition) - does the trashtalk reach "most...

Since plasma balls would consist of ionised particles that are similarly charged and mutually repel one another, most forms of plasma fly apart in a very short period - seconds or less. Or they cool down and become ordinary gases, which quickly...

If a claimed thing doesn't exist, it doesn't exist regardless of the number of people who believe it exists, or the sincerity/ depth of those beliefs. Any statistical interpretation, in the absence of testable evidence, that says something must...

Yeah, when I first heard it, it seemed to say the 9 were used to argue the nuclear testing correlations. But in reading the transcript, I think it just gets jumbled up. As you noted, there’s multiple papers, with multiple changing lists and...