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I'm glad you asked, because I can now quote what I read on Wikipedia a minute ago. ;) According to Loeb, the "fundamental question" is if the Ark of Covenant was a device used to communicate with extraterrestrials and if the Jewish people were...

What word would you suggest be used in the sense that Grusch uses the term?

I'm glad you asked, because I can now quote what I read on Wikipedia a minute ago. ;) According to Loeb, the "fundamental question" is if the Ark of Covenant was a device used to communicate with extraterrestrials and if the Jewish people were...

If you have N competing hypothesis, and no informations at all, each hypothesis gets a probability of 1/N. But working with binaryu choices makes things easier :)

Yes, I know it looks strange, but 50%-50% means exactly this: this evidence adds no information at all, so there is no reason to prefer an hypothesis over the other one (given this single piece of evidence). And once you factor in the 1:1 odds...

Minor error here at 28:55. The Bottom paragraph is me, not Ferandez.

Yeah, it's around the level I hear from some European friends for whom English is a second language and for whom some of those words have little "weight" as profanity and are just used as emphasis (Not All Europeans, of course...) Or my...

Agreed, I'm surprised Shermer quoted this but didn't challenge it. Strongly agree. We need to understand what claimants and UFO enthusiasts mean, but that doesn't mean we should adopt examples of pseudoscientific jargon. As mentioned in other...

AARO was not tasked with finding the desired answer.

Was it just me or was that just more confused and confusing than anything else? random thoughts and paraphrasing below: Avi was tasked by the government to investigate the videos that are being released by the government, but we are actually...

Yes, I know it looks strange, but 50%-50% means exactly this: this evidence adds no information at all, so there is no reason to prefer an hypothesis over the other one (given this single piece of evidence). And once you factor in the 1:1 odds...

That's not how parallax works. Nor how perspective works. (cue the Father Ted clip. It does NOT say "small and far away".) But you can count on the UFO witness in your story to fail to take a clear photo. :p

Was it just me or was that just more confused and confusing than anything else? random thoughts and paraphrasing below: Avi was tasked by the government to investigate the videos that are being released by the government, but we are actually...

I'm glad you asked, because I can now quote what I read on Wikipedia a minute ago. ;) According to Loeb, the "fundamental question" is if the Ark of Covenant was a device used to communicate with extraterrestrials and if the Jewish people were...

Oh I see! Thank you.