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Well, if you want to go there, there's this: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russia's foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation, two U.S. officials said on Monday, plunging... -
Mendel replied to the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina..I think "balloons" is more common, but "birds" is definitely on the list (see https://www.metabunk.org/threads/classes-of-explanations-for-ufos.15123/post-377097 ); a recent favorite is "birds at night", reduced to white dots. -
CChrisMouse replied to the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina..It is easier to see when the seagull picture is put next to it, the sun was coming up and reflecting off of the gull and washing out its features. I could not see it that way last night. Thanks for looking
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Ddavo27 reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina. with
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The common one is when gulls are high up and lit by sun against darker clouds, often this happens in storms or evening/dawn they look like intense white 'orbs' but it's just them being over exposed by the camera and appearing very bright in... -
Ddavo27 reacted to Mick West's post in the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina. with Like.
No, probably <1% of cases are seagulls. It's just a bit amusing when it happens.
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Mendel reacted to davo27's post in the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina. with
Funny.
Dropping back in here after a while - seeing this was almost too good to be true, but... Please tell me 'seagull' isn't really the default answer that's usually right?! -
Mendel reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina. with Like.
The common one is when gulls are high up and lit by sun against darker clouds, often this happens in storms or evening/dawn they look like intense white 'orbs' but it's just them being over exposed by the camera and appearing very bright in...
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jarlrmai replied to the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina..The common one is when gulls are high up and lit by sun against darker clouds, often this happens in storms or evening/dawn they look like intense white 'orbs' but it's just them being over exposed by the camera and appearing very bright in... -
Mendel reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread AI videos are getting very good. How do we detect their trickery? with
Agree.
If we were strict on provenance we'd not analyse much here, people think we are harsh, but in fact we give people the courtesy of considering their incredibly poorly sourced evidence with no provenance, mostly because we find that it is... -
MonkeeSage reacted to Mick West's post in the thread Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey with
Informative.
They did just make a GitHub repo public which has some of the data, some of which seems newly public: https://github.com/dca-doherty/VASCO-ML MIT License, so I've attached a .zip here: -
MonkeeSage reacted to jarlrmai's post in the thread AI videos are getting very good. How do we detect their trickery? with Like.
If we were strict on provenance we'd not analyse much here, people think we are harsh, but in fact we give people the courtesy of considering their incredibly poorly sourced evidence with no provenance, mostly because we find that it is...
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As an 'enthusiast', I think that what's going on is that there is a lot of traction with this issue among (especially Republican) politicians who have access to Trump. There is widespread belief that this issue is being brought to Trump's...
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Mendel replied to the thread The "Disclosure President"?.Well, if you want to go there, there's this: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russia's foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation, two U.S. officials said on Monday, plunging...
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Mick West replied to the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina..No, probably <1% of cases are seagulls. It's just a bit amusing when it happens. -
Ddavo27 replied to the thread Weird wizard hat floating over the marina in North Carolina..Dropping back in here after a while - seeing this was almost too good to be true, but... Please tell me 'seagull' isn't really the default answer that's usually right?!
