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Yeah, cloud seeding doesn't actually work well, if at all. So the claim that it is causal is ridiculous.

Yeah, but that idea doesn't hold water. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/cloud-seeding-dubai-floods

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From Markus Hemmler: A more detailed picture of the tail (https://assets-jpcust.jwpsrv.com/thumbnails/wefdhfg4-720.jpg) reveals the vertebral column with hypo- and epichordal rays. For this and other reasons, it is a badly decomposed shark and seems to have lost only parts of its head, the...

The CLAAAAW!

There is an explanation: Monday morning, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) went aboard the ship called DALI as they began looking into whether the crew left port knowing that something could be wrong with the ship. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy...

It's time for everyone to stop using "Richter scale". That is not used anymore. Use "magnitude".

Regarding the Oakville (WA) blobs of 1994, there is a recent Netflix series called Files of the Unexplained which covers this incident. It's quite interesting, following up from the Unsolved Mysteries coverage in 1997. Not once did they mention pwdre ser (maybe because they couldn't pronounce...

She bled to death. (I thought the same thing but in the article is said she was stabbed.) As usual, the details suggest an intention that may not be legitimate.

A link? Yes, magical thinking by people who love drama and imaginative stories over facts. Childress is a crackpot. The same group of paranormalists love to link everything together and simply make stuff up.

Apocalyptic fear mongering and conspiracy hype can be tragic to people who are mentally unstable, and people around them. Mom who threw 2 kids onto LA freeway, killing her infant, appeared agitated by impending eclipse...

The Nineveh claim was false. The religious groups were (SURPRISE) greatly misinformed. An eclipse occurred and nothing happened.

Thanks for posting the text. I refuse to click on IFLScience. Trash site.

As someone who used to spend a huge portion of time every day addressing paranormal or strange news stories reported by the media, I observed it go so off the rails by 2017 that I could no longer keep doing it. It was pointless. Even today, it's not possible to take a rational view of these...

I've submitted a response. I'd bet it's going to be VERY different from any others you get.

It is very likely that many incidents reported of fish "rains" are a result of the fish swimming in ditches and even across roadways taking advantage of the deluge to spread to new areas. Native fish swim across flooded Barkly Highway in remote NT after heavy rain, road closures Mr Eclipse...

Well I suspect they will certainly do that now but I don't know how feasible it was to retrofit all bridges with bumpers. It was finished in 1977.

I agree! It is ridiculous. A large portion of Americans have lost all sense of reason (if they only had a meagre amount prior to this year). (I'll say no more because it's not just the Eclipse and earthquakes.)

It's like there was never an eclipse before. (We had one in the US in 2017 and the world didn't end.)

I did. But I didn't (really) find any. See pics here: https://sharonahill.com/paranormal-vortex-areas/

Have added that item to the piece as part of the update. I can hardly keep up with all the stuff bubbling up. I'm going to have to quit trying just for my own sanity.

:headbang: I'm editing this webpage right now to add more to it because the BS is growing to epic proportions. Eclipse Anxiety 2024 Amidst misinformation surrounding the April 8 solar eclipse, many in the US succumb to unfounded fears. While eclipses are natural, predictable phenomena, rumors...

Oh my dog, the people of the East Coast on social media are insufferable today. So many "suddenly seismologists". I, unfortunately, did not feel the first quake but my kid in Deleware, my Dad in Northeastern PA, and many friends up and down the Atlantic coastal plain did. My cousin in New...

April 1. Appropriate. This is unenforceable.

I had a dream of a giant flying trilobite (about a foot long, so not a real monster). It was scary and amazing. I was attempting to search for on the internet (as if it was a real, known creature, which it obviously was NOT, but I'm pretty stupid in my dreams). A series of sirens going down my...

I did not hate that Ghostbusters reboot. I do hate the more recent ones.

There is a Beetlejuice sequel coming out with some key people from the original cast. I'm excited but I hope it doesn't end up on this list.

Strange ideas like that pass in and out of fashion. Leys are slightly more popular since around 2010 in the US. Then there was "Ghostbusters 2016". There is a lot on "vortex" areas in the US too. Considering that leys were at first a very British thing, they aren't out of fashion yet...

A glacial term. They are all over northern US and Canada. :yeahthat: He is a geological disgrace. Boob, indeed.

PLENTY of so-called "True Forteans" (a nonsense term) have expressed reasonable skepticism about some reports, even Fort himself (though not enough, IMO). You'll have a very hard time defining a person as "Fortean". The reason why the PGF is still being discussed decades later is that people...

Typical Sunday along Highway 1 in California, something happened to the road. Motorists creep along 1 lane after part of California’s iconic Highway 1 collapses Motorists crept along one lane of a scenic stretch of California’s iconic Highway 1 on Monday after a giant chunk of it collapsed...

Careful... don't tread into the "No True Fortean" fallacy. Everyone on here has differing belief/opinion levels on different topics. https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/what-is-fortean.65416/

5-year Havana Syndrome investigation finds new evidence of who might be responsible https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-year-havana-syndrome-investigation-finds-new-evidence-of-who-might-be-responsible-60-minutes/ All this sounds much like the UAP situation. A lot of hearsay, no impressive new evidence.

SOMEONE will report this, for sure. And you can guess where.

More on the immediate troubles with this news event. The Amateur Bridge Engineers Have Logged On In Baltimore, we have a mix of official information, verifiable information obtained via reporting, random speculation from well-meaning experts, random speculation from well-meaning amateurs...

You're absolutely right.

They did drop the anchor which (from knowledgeable commentators) is not under the electrical control. It's also possible the black smoke was a result of the severe actions taken to stop. The power seemed to be going on and off, going by the lighting.

The ship had been in dock and experiencing electrical problems. So, the idea that it was hacked is not supported. They also have the ship's data recorder that will provide more specific info. There are also people saying it was caused by a controlled demolition of the pier, which is nonsense...

Conspiracy ideas make me retch. People are so warped by lack of critical thinking these days. More on the heroism and a system that worked fairly well: The ship radioed a mayday call that was immediately transmitted to the highway (Beltway) police. Within 4 minutes, it appears, in response to...

I'm watching the local news on this (I'm only about a 2 hr drive from the location). It's been good to see a huge bipartisan governmental team effort. The governor of Maryland has mentioned there has been an outpouring of public and private support as well. I'd add that we've had two...

It wasn't necessarily computer navigation but the power that went out on the ship. Let's wait to see what the investigation shows before speculating further.

What Google University? Science via YouTube? I'll stick to getting my info from worldwide scientific consensus instead.

No I didn't watch the video. Have you read the climate change reports? Here is the WHO on climate change and health. This is not a UK problem, it's a global problem https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health Climate change presents a fundamental threat to human...

I started to. But I value my time. If I went down every rabbit hole of unconventional ideas I'd not have a useful life (or a sound mind). Science is not done by documentaries.

The scientific method is not a step-by-step process. No one is censoring views. Obviously, you are telling me how much of these ideas are out there. Part of scientific norms is critique. A bad argument is (probably) going to eventually fail.

Says who? A small contingent of people who have opinions. So what? If you say something that is unsupported by evidence, yeah, that's not good for your career. It sometimes takes a long time for a paradigm to be overturned. But having a good argument makes that effort go faster. I'm not...

So, you don't understand what models are either? The cause isn't in question. It's a rise in greenhouse gases. Full stop. That creates other effects. Sorry but you're just not adding to your credibility here by saying you don't understand it, but you understand it IS this reason... Makes no sense.

I'm not following. How will food instability, loss of water resources, mass migration, higher rates and spread of tropical diseases, and more extreme weather events lead to fewer people dying? Edit: I would add that air pollution from burning fossil fuels is already a major source of health...

Fascinating ideas in here.

Regarding the "ice age" issue: Do you REALLY THINK that scientists who have been studying climate models for decades haven't thought of that and worked that into models? That is not a valid excuse to ignore the unprecedented rates of warming.