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Fritzkquzerk reacted to Todd Feinman's post in the thread Mysterious disappearance of UFO-linked Air Force general sparks search with
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I'm not skeptical about the existence of anomalous objects. And I generally try to let folks do their own thing on this forum without challenging them much anymore. It certainly hasn't been easy. But I think (hope) folks here would like to be... -
Fritzkquzerk reacted to Mick West's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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New from BV: Dear everyone, Some new and very exciting news from the VASCO team! First, our machine-learning paper has been accepted for publication following peer review and is now in press. In this paper, we used machine learning to address... -
John J. reacted to cloudspotter's post in the thread Photos of Clouds and Skies (That you took yourself) with Informative.
That's Virga in the second photo. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground -
Mendel reacted to jdog's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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There's another self-correlative effect in that -- the POSS-1 shots and UFO sightings roughly track with the weather. That is, you can't photograph the sky when it's cloudy; people don't see UFOs in the sky (or planets or bright stars) when it's... -
John J. reacted to Ann K's post in the thread Mysterious disappearance of UFO-linked Air Force general sparks search with Like.
But we don't HAVE any "real flying objects" that are UFOs. Sociology, one of the "soft sciences", still has facts and figures to work with, but there have been no solid objects to study except the mundane. That means, of course, that they...
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Mendel reacted to Smythe Bacchus's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
I realise the prepublication release of the Watters et. al. critique of the 2025 VASCO research papers has already been cited on Metabunk. This article provides an update and brings it all together. A study claimed UFOs orbited Earth in the...
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Fritzkquzerk replied to the thread Mysterious disappearance of UFO-linked Air Force general sparks search.In my opinion hard science could still study flying objects or phenomena and come across real new discoveries, but very probably not alien life. I enjoy reading about ufology from a sociological point of view, but I'm also on Metabunk and I enjoy...
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Mendel reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
Villarroel has published an update on independent replications of the VASCO transient work, including recommendations for future replications of Solano et al. (2022) aka MNRAS 2022. Link...
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Mendel reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
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One item from my "what-should-I-do" list visualized: detections sitting on the plate edges. 6 first images are actual detections from the pipeline. Two are control samples, not near the plate edges. Typical case is a source in pure plate fog... -
cloudspotter reacted to Alytha's post in the thread Photos of Clouds and Skies (That you took yourself) with Like.
I found a curly cloud! And whatever these are? -
cloudspotter replied to the thread Photos of Clouds and Skies (That you took yourself).That's Virga in the second photo. Precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground
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Mendel reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Winner.
Yet another update. Does it matter where you get the pixels? A parity check between my two pipelines Quick background for anyone joining late: my older pipeline (VASCO60) got its images by asking the STScI cutout service for a 60'x60' square...
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Mendel reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
Yet another update. Current survivor count: 71,654 rows after the basic pipeline vetoes and now also SuperCOSMOS and PTF post-processing stages. Detailed breakdown here...
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Mendel reacted to HoaxEye's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Like.
Update: first release is out, see: https://github.com/jannefi/poss1-plate-slice/blob/main/results/s0-642-20260814/README.md This run didn't went smoothly, but because the results are valid, I decided to publish this release fully (except, of...
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HoaxEye reacted to Mick West's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with Informative.
New from BV: Dear everyone, Some new and very exciting news from the VASCO team! First, our machine-learning paper has been accepted for publication following peer review and is now in press. In this paper, we used machine learning to address...