Possibly untrue science news

Which, of course, doesn’t square with the proofs that the sun is far enough away to be treated as a point light source (one easy one mentioned/linked in the video).

…and then they claim the moon is its own light source, or somesuch. It’s a heck of a rabbit hole to go down once you try refuting things point by point.


This popped up in my own youtube recommendations for some reason a week or two ago. A good video, but really could have used some editing to tighten it up. I spent half of it thinking “yes, you’ve described what you’re doing in broad strokes a few times so far, get to the actual detail already!”

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Yeah, but we have to explain… uh…

And the Koreshan Unity Geodetic Survey results.

And the Grand Canyon, if it’s not a quarry.

And UFOs, since it’s ridiculous to suppose they travelled light-years from other disks in our globist cosmology, instead of just from beyond the Great Ice Wall in their flat-earth cosmology.

I think a lot of them only believe that because they figure “libtards” think the world is spherical.

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To be fair, that’s 280 km of flats, and not at Tour de France speeds. It’s impressive, but it’s the kind of thing a mortal could work up to doing in a few weeks/months.

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My friend’s cousin wrote that book. The author donated all the proceeds to the Lacks family.

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Oh, cool!

Can you get a message to her about the fact that Amazon’s reviews were screwed up? I tried to contact Amazon about it but I can’t get through all the email reply bots. Maybe as author, Rebecca Skloot can.

And that’s so nice she donated the proceeds!

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I will talk to her cousin. I need to do a call with her soon anyway. The cousin is one of my best friends on Long Island.

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Let her know we loved the book! (My wife does database work supporting cancer research.)

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A couple years old, but interesting:

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Something I haven’t seen reputed on before: back when I taught summer school in a building without air conditioning, we used to have Coke or Diet Coke with breakfast because it was too hot for tea or coffee, even first thing in the morning. Some of us noticed the Diet Coke would make us feel spaced out for about an hour after we drank it. Not sure if it was a reaction to the aspartame (which gives me hives now) or something else.

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And they have bad aftertaste.

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Time for sweet tea or iced coffee.

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Bière d’épinette. The real stuff prevents scurvy. :wink:

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Neither of which are terribly Canadian. Iced coffee has caught on since, but iced tea (sweet tea was and still largely is unknown) back then was made from mixing powder in water, like Kool-Aid, and often didn’t have caffeine in it.

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Ah. Proper mid-century North American fare.

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“Iced tea” in Canada is almost exactly completely unlike tea.

I remember (well, as best as I remember anything, so not really “remember” so much as “remember the story”) going to the States as a kid, and ordering an iced tea with my food court meal. When the lady saw I had Canadian money (it was a near-to-a-border town, and at that time anyone was prepared to do exchange. This was back before passports were needed), she warned me with great concern that it was “real tea”. I guess they had more than a few Canadians shocked by the taste.

I told her that was exactly why I wanted it.

I grew up drinking tea – my grandparents liked it strong enough to melt the spoon. Canadian iced tea wasn’t worthy of the name tea (and in most cases still isn’t). It’s just one of the few non-carbonated options.

Sweet tea, however, is often made too sweet. Yeah, I said it. I want tea, not tea-coloured sugar.

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The scary part is of you mix it just right, you can dissolve the tea granules but make most of the sugar fall to the bottom of the glass. Makes it less sweet.

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…Isn’t this pretty much exactly what all the fuss in Cuba was about?

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