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The point is that if the ball touches anything other than the goal posts, then a "drop ball" is the rule. If the ball hit the cable, then technically the play should have stopped, and the ref should have given a drop ball. I don't think that...

Of course we can. Not all trees are a solid mass of leaves, like a cartoon depiction.

I'm suggesting that the the small reflections are due to a bright light inside the vehicle, which is also the source of the large bright light which appears to be outside the vehicle, but is in fact a reflection on the windows - first the left...

But specifically how is it more trustworthy than these: Source: https://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/2076753908253528511#m [EDIT: rewite to equivalent twitter URL in order to persuade embedding to work]

To be fair, while some precocious toddlers begin to solve object permanence at just 4 months, some of the slower ones don't completely master this until 12 months.

(Comment from a non-sports fan here.) If the ball hit the wire, is there any expectation at all that it would have changed the play after the ball came down? Could this possibly have affected the subsequent goal? Or is this merely a "rules"...

They didn't even complain immediately after the goal. After the ref blew his whistle for half-time, the Norwegian goalkeeper approached him, and their conversation appeared to concern the ball hitting the cable. That was the first mention of it...

I'm looking at your image of the two sets of spikes. One has spikes pretty much bang on 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 o'clock, the other has them at closer to 12, 1:30, 4:30: 6, 7:30, and 10:30. The non-vertical ones clearly can be extended to meet each...

The craft is well known to interstellar travelers: It is the Koodac Atebitin, manufactured on Rigel VII from 1972-1993. And while the Handycam PJ5 only has "standard" (720 × 576) definition, it has two extraordinary features: First, a true 57x...

I think it's possible that the ball ever-so-slightly grazed the cable...insufficient to register anything on the ball's "heartbeat," or enough to alter the trajectory at all or affect the gameplay. If players reacted strongly at that moment, as...

Sure, plain version: the "six-pointed star" isn't the shape of anything flying. It's made inside the camera itself. When a camera looks at a really intense point of light (or heat, for an IR sensor), the light bends slightly around anything...

Way too old of a ship to be used in 2009. You’re surely wrong!

Yeah, I'm leaning towards it NOT hitting the wire now. I'm playing around with trajectories, and it does not seem like the ball is high enough to hit the wire.

I am not convinced a defocussed point of light will look like what we see. Also not when taking diffraction in account. In fact, optical diffraction spikes will be larger and more prominent, when being in better focus.

Fair, they're not perfectly collinear, already flagged that in the numbers actually. Measured separations were 64.5/54.9/60.6°, not an even 60/60/60, so there's a real asymmetry of a few degrees between the pairs. Noted it as being right at the...