Are there any good websites or links to debunk rubbish?

[shapeshifter]

You're welcome.

So that is where you've been. lol I thought so, given the YT videos you've been posting lately. I was going to cross post the one in the closed thread into the one about alien life, but felt it wasn't my place to do that.

Did you found what you we're looking for to show your wayward family members?

 

[Aragorn]

Back when I listed to Coast to Coast AM, there was some old guy who was a regular guest who claimed to be some high-ranking official and was hellbent on telling everyone that it was impossible to pass through the Van Allen Belt. Even as a kid, it was obvious how full of crap he was. I wonder if he's still alive.

Flat earthers. Anti-vaxxers. Holocaust deniers. Mass shooting deniers. People who are anti-education because knowledge is the work of the devil. And you-know-who made a big deal about "alternative facts." People believe what they want to believe and anything that casts doubts on those believes only makes them double down. Maybe this is the great filter.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

You're welcome.

So that is where you've been. lol I thought so, given the YT videos you've been posting lately. I was going to cross post the one in the closed thread into the one about alien life, but felt it wasn't my place to do that.

Did you found what you we're looking for to show your wayward family members?

I did kind of..... Found some nice science articles on the Van Allen belts and general space travel and now they believe. If only other people were so easy to flip and see the light.

Back when I listed to Coast to Coast AM, there was some old guy who was a regular guest who claimed to be some high-ranking official and was hellbent on telling everyone that it was impossible to pass through the Van Allen Belt. Even as a kid, it was obvious how full of crap he was. I wonder if he's still alive.

Flat earthers. Anti-vaxxers. Holocaust deniers. Mass shooting deniers. People who are anti-education because knowledge is the work of the devil. And you-know-who made a big deal about "alternative facts." People believe what they want to believe and anything that casts doubts on those believes only makes them double down. Maybe this is the great filter.

I'll be howled down and all but I do wonder deep down if this particular period of the 21st Century is in fact The Great Filter and we can survive it and get our collective shit together then we might prosper as a species.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cris...forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws
For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.

In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn observed that scientists spend long periods taking small steps. They pose and solve puzzles while collectively interpreting all data within a fixed worldview or theoretical framework, which Kuhn called a paradigm. Sooner or later, though, facts crop up that clash with the reigning paradigm. Crisis ensues. The scientists wring their hands, reexamine their assumptions and eventually make a revolutionary shift to a new paradigm, a radically different and truer understanding of nature. Then incremental progress resumes.

typical article at this site,.. https://www.quantamagazine.org/
debunking is possible here maybe ? but the fact the earth is a sphere is a given and not proven here.

There are tiers of acceptance of scientific orthodoxy. I suspect the standard model of particle physics is no more correct than the epicyclic model of the solar system was. It works - in that it makes falsifiable predictions - but it has an embarrassingly large number of adjustable parameters that have to be filled in by experiment. That's usually a sign that you're barking up the wrong tree theoretically. In the end we're just fitting human-invented mathematical models to what we perceive as reality. Reality does not reason and so it has no reason to conform to the stories that we invent about it - either in literature or in mathematics.

 

[publiusr]

Another good site is Retraction Watch

 

[Santaman]

I'd suggest buying a real heavy weight paper encyclopedia and whack idiots around with Volume I-III whenever they dare to open their mouths..

 

[publiusr]

Sadly they don’t make paper encyclopedias anymore…last I checked

 

[XCV330]

Sadly they don’t make paper encyclopedias anymore…last I checked

World Book is still in print. It has a niche unto itself now.

 

[publiusr]

That’s a relief—-nice to know something like that is still around I would have bet my Funk & Wagnalls that they were all gone. There is a Wagnalls library I see.

a grand boast
https://boingboing.net/2022/08/17/is-precognition-real.html

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

They don't offer Optical Disc version of the World Book
=(

 

[publiusr]

I miss microfiche…Hack that Mitnick.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

They don't offer Optical Disc version of the World Book
=(

In the old days there were things like Encarta which was a mix of online and CD rom

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

In the old days there were things like Encarta which was a mix of online and CD rom

All those Dead Trees you could've avoided needing by Stamping out 1x Quad Layer Blu-Ray Disc.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

All those Dead Trees you could've avoided needing by Stamping out 1x Quad Layer Blu-Ray Disc.

OMG if bluray level storage was around in the early 90s imagine what today would be like.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

OMG if bluray level storage was around in the early 90s imagine what today would be like.

If you think Blu-Ray is good, look at what Sony has in "Archival Disc" and is LITERALLY holding back from the consumers right now.

ODA (Optical Disc Archive) Gen 3, using Archival Disc branded Optical Discs, provide 5.5 TB of storage per cartridge with 500 GB per Optical Disc.

Each Archival Disc is Double Sided & Triple Layered.

At 500 GB, that's 83.3… GB per Layer.

Remember, Blu-Ray was Quad Layered, and Sony/Panasonic is literally holding back on what can be designed into a MiniDisc like Cartridge for home Archiving purposes.

Imagine what a large MiniDisc like shell over a standard 120mm Archival Disc used for Double Sided storage / Reading / Writing with Quad Layers could do.

That would be 666.6… GB per Disc using Double-Sided Quad Layered disc using Archival Disc Gen 3.

Once Sony/Panasonic hit Gen 4, that could double to 1333.3… GB per Disc.

Finally, slightly past the 1 TiB per Disc mark at 1.302 TiB per Disc using Double-Sided Quad Layered.

If Sony/Panasonic wanted to increase the density by adding layers to the middle of the Optical Disc, similar to HD-DVD instead of mounting them to the outside, you could see another doubling of density with minimal impact on manufacturing costs.

By making Double-Sided Optical Discs, Archival Discs have to be sandwiched from two pieces with a reflective core anyways, adding in a data layer at the center would be relatively trivial for mass production, with minimal complications since you have to do that with the making of DVD's and Double Sided discs. Combining the two techniques could create Double-Sided 8x layer per side discs in practical theory with 16x layers in total.

It wouldn't be the first time in history that there have been multiple data layers spread that far apart.

SACD did that with a CD & DVD layer in one disc.

 

[publiusr]

Sigh…

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That's insane storage but still it's a spinning medium and relies on mechanical parts. But yeah storage there sounds insane. So why not make it available to everyone?

How long till we can have optical storage on optical chips, without all the moving parts?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I found a tape of an old church meeting where Ken Ham was speaking, yes that man the one with the funny creation museum.
He said that atomic bombs could only be used at specific times of the year.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That's insane storage but still it's a spinning medium and relies on mechanical parts. But yeah storage there sounds insane. So why not make it available to everyone?

How long till we can have optical storage on optical chips, without all the moving parts?

There will always be some form of moving parts, but you'd need to make DLP mirrors cheap to mass produce and surround the Optical Chips on at least 2 or 3 sides with receivers for the lasers on the opposite ends.

But that gets very expensive incredibly fast.

That's why Optical Disc is more popular due to it's cheaper on the parts nature.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

No just engineer an optical chip that can be read directly by a laser or other kind of beam like isolinear chips, then we shall have more Trek stuff in real life.