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I guess that I've had just enough scientific training that I differentiate the words "guess" and "theory."

Not the clips you were hoping for ;)

I was 9 years old. I also spent a fair bit of time, a couple of years before that, reading "Chariots of the Gods" and picking apart Von Daniken's assumptions. So i suppose that's a fair statement.

And also on the legal front, now a "well known adult entertainment" company, that seems to almost exclusively make content so that they can sue people for sharing it out of copyright, is suing Meta for downloading their "content" to train it's video AI.

The common definition of theory is closer to the scientific definition than is the usual derogatory use in the sentence, "Well that's just a theory!" "Yeah, that's not really the cutting jibe that you think it is."

I was on a Cub Scout retreat, in an old farmhouse, with 20 other Scouts. One day the pack leader who was in charge of us burst into the room and said, "Andy is missing. We need to go find him!" So we all rolled out of bed and headed outside, in the middle of winter. There we found a set of...

Spooky can include people. I was once riding through rural Pennsylvania and stumbled on a general store, in the middle of nowhere. No cars around. Two people in chairs on either side of the door who pretty much looked identical with the exception that one was Black and the other was White. I...

And then there are the people who get charged with impaired operation on private property. If you can be charged for it while operating a boat in the middle of a lake, under the exact same section of the Criminal Code, then driving through a field is no exception.

I specifically mentioned legal definitions because I moderate the legal section of a motorcycle message board, in Canada, and more than once I have had to direct people to the "definitions" section of a statute because the word they're hinging their choices on doesn't mean what they think it...

And if they are acting on a firmly held belief, it's not fraud. Intent is important.

Trying to explain to people that the legal definitions of words aren't always the same as the dictionary definition is always a fun time.

Yeah, I gave the sanitized version. Roddenberry was a well known womanizer.

No. Gaslighting is explicitly a conscious act to manipulate.

They did a lot of semi-historical stuff in the episode. Mount's character (can't remember the name) was playing out a version of what really happened to Roddenberry. His control over the series was slowly being reeled back, over the course of its run. I also loved the throwaway line, "No one...

Anson Mount posted pics from set on his Instagram :ROFLMAO:

EVP is one of many things that "paranormal investigators" will truck out, with absolutely no factual basis to support it. When you get to the point of amplifying background noise to that extent, you're almost certainly going to pick up stray signals from other sources. Radios are just tuned...

OTOH you clearly would touch said person with a 10' pole, if you were able.

I just finished rewatching it, myself, now that a second season is on the way. I'm left wondering how many times this might have played out and how much obfuscation the aliens have engaged in, if one of their species has enough experience with this sort of thing that they expect Earth to be...

I wanted to post a GIF of Daniel Jackson demonstrating Pi in Thor's test, in Stargate, but all that I could find was Dom DeLuise saying that he wanted to experience the universe and eat pie. I keep thinking back to all the pictures of "orbs" that we get from investigators, who neither...

This is where I was yesterday afternoon. It's how people traveled on the Great Lakes, in Edwardian times; The Steamship Keewatin, which was in service until 1970.