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Things that burn up on entry are going their fastest at the least dense part of the atmosphere so you can imagine what might happen at that speed in the densest.

And this video includes much of what I would say on the subject:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/transients-in-the-palomar-observatory-sky-survey.14362/

He’s already “joked” about dropping bombs of poop on them.

I will still respond with more later but it seems the heart of the discussion is that since there’s no way to prove that every transient is a plate defect then some of them could be non-terrestrial artifacts. There’s a lot of wishful thinking here it seems. Looking for correlations with the...

These hurricanes aren’t going to nuke themselves…

That’s a very strong Statement and strikes at the core of many astronomical survey programs, including SDSS and the nascent Vera Rubin observatory. The astronomical community (of which I assume you are not a part) would highly disagree with this statement.

As I understand the journal “scientific reports”, which I hadn’t heard of before (as opposed to the PASP) and is an “open source” journal, the fact it was published has nothing to do with the “intriguing” nature of the content but the validity of the scientific analysis. I believe that’s the...

Sorry. I guess I misunderstood when you said he found the paper highly intriguing that he was commenting on the content of the paper and not its mere existence. Sure. But there is a certain “politics” whe it comes to authorship on scientific journal articles and it is notable that only she...

Sure, as if he could have done something worse than the tan suit.

Adam Frank, the astrophysicist you are linking to, doesn't actually comment on the papers themselves. He's just pointing out that he's interested in the idea that there's an astronomer publishing in a reputable journal about the possibility of detecting "non-terrestrial artifacts" (the term...

To be fair, he started lower.

I haven’t read the papers yet but from what I have heard these are transient detections, so it is an assumption that they are in orbit and not established fact yet.

I would like to but I haven’t had the time yet. I would be curious to see if any of these transients show up in other sky surveys, like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which I think was the e first major Sky survey to be done with modern digital detectors and not glass plates.

The first author is an anesthesiologist it seems.

Wonder if the demolition company got paid up front.

I guess I don’t hang out enough in the streets of Santa Monica to be familiar with the term

I know I have only been speaking American English for a few decades but what does “bell end” mean?

Have we ever had a “fair” election? I would define a fair election thusly: any eligible citizen who wants to vote gets to vote and their vote is actually counted.

I’m only on ep3 of diplomat season 3. Still enjoying songs but i agree it seems the plot is drifting.