Sir Sic (the Social Inequality Crusader) mocks a “college professor” who claims to have a mechanical engineering degree and who claims that rockets cannot work in a vacuum. Because he not only doesn’t understand basic science, he thinks it’s all a conspiracy. The original video seems to date from quite some time ago; the version…
Ask yourself: who’s surprised by this? Blue Hair and the Blues: Dying Your Hair Unnatural Colours is Associated with Depression A number of lines of evidence, such as studies of religious converts and members of conspicuous subcultures, have found a relationship between holding and expressing a strong counter-cultural identity and mental instability. Here we…
How about NO: Government considered killing all domestic cats at start of Covid pandemic Ministers briefly considered ordering all domestic cats in Britain to be killed amid fears they could be spreading Covid, a former health minister has said. … “In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask…
Turns out the AI are learning to code. Two immediate takeaways from that: 1) There goes another career path. 2) Dear Sweet Baby Jeebus, have none of these people ever watched *any* science fiction? Giving an AI that has a demonstrated lack of morality the ability to re-write itself is the very height of “I…
The train crash in East Palestine Ohio was a toxic mess. Those claiming that everything is just fine now seem to not be entirely accurate in their assessments. NEW – Today, U.S. Senator Vance visited East Palestine, Ohio, where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed. Look what happens when he puts a stick into a…
A university in Tokyo has made a four-legged spider robot. That’s nothing too special, except that it can fly. Unfortunately, in order to fly it has to be extremely light weight, which means its joints and servos are incredibly weak. In order to walk it needs its thrusters to fly its legs from position to…
Debunkings can be fun, once you get past the headache and heartache of having to debunk nonsense in the first place. Penn & Tellers “BS” is sadly missed here, but this video might help tide you over a bit. It has become politically fashionable in recent years to erase the actual inventors of numerous objects…
The idea that there are bioweapon labs in Ukraine is pretty effectively debunked by Ryan McBeth: The fact that there are *biological* labs in Ukraine strikes me as entirely unsuprising… and entirely to be expected. Ukraine is an agricultural nation, and where you find agriculture *and* modern society, you find laboratories that study agriculture. And…
I don’t know how reliable this is, but if it’s accurate… yee haw. 2023 is just the year that keeps on giving. A small asteroid 9~1 meter) is aimed at the south side of the English channel, impacting 03:00:03 UT tomorrow. Probably won;t make it to the water as a single object, but most likely…
Hard to argue that this is anything but clear evidence that Mars was once a wet planet. NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past It’s the sort of terrain where, on Earth, I’d not be surprised to see a fossil shell or footprint. That’s doubtless too much to ask *here,* but the…
