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What conspiracy theory took over in 2014 that diverted everyone from UFOs? Or are most of the UFOsters just dying off, my batshit uncle died back in 2013 :/
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sweeperbravo posted:What conspiracy theory took over in 2014 that diverted everyone from UFOs? The real life started to be so insane that nobody needs the UFOs anymore.
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Jul 1, 2018 00:10
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A few years before the peak of UFO sightings, everybody started carrying around high-quality cameras at all times.
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Jul 1, 2018 00:12
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sweeperbravo posted:What conspiracy theory took over in 2014 that diverted everyone from UFOs? Flat Earth
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Jul 1, 2018 05:30
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Bongo Bill posted:A few years before the peak of UFO sightings, everybody started carrying around high-quality cameras at all times. This sounds reasonable. The peak takes off during the early smartphone era when everyone started having a lovely camera on them, then the drop kicks in around the time that even cheap phones were getting decent cameras.
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Jul 1, 2018 05:50
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Theris posted:This sounds reasonable. The peak takes off during the early smartphone era when everyone started having a lovely camera on them, then the drop kicks in around the time that even cheap phones were getting decent cameras.  https://xkcd.com/1235/
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Jul 1, 2018 06:08
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It looks like it's just a count of reports submitted to this very professional looking website. So there's a pretty good chance it's just something effecting that specific site. Maybe something started driving traffic to the site around 2011 and it stopped in 2014. The final numbers for 2018 might make that drop look less dramatic too. Less off a sudden drop and more of a slow rise with a sudden spike really. I am under the impression that UFO crankery is very passe amongst cranks though.
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Jul 1, 2018 06:51
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I've always thought that the big surge of UFO conspiracies generally happened in the 90s (you had stuff like Roswell before that, but the 90s is really when that hit the zeitgeist), and a big part of that is probably the geopolitical situation at the time. The 90s was the first time in perhaps most of a century when people didn't really have something big and unknowable to fear or worry about. That's probably why you have a lot of generally happy pop culture at the time, but people were so used to being scared of something that, in a world without those, they started imagining that threat coming from outside their world. Stuff like the X-Files helped it along by putting it on a huge pop culture stage, but they were tapping into something already there. Then of course 9/11 happened, and the big conspiracies changed over time from being about aliens to being about the government, or terrorism. Aliens didn't seem like such a big deal when given a human conflict to worry about.
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Jul 1, 2018 07:06
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It’s the other way around. The aliens were getting more active as they prepared to reveal themselves to the world. They saw us as being on the verge on the enlightenment age, and were going to guide us there. And then we hosed up with the little Bush and everything else. It’s ok, they’ll be back in a couple centuries to check if we’re still around. They are a patient bunch.
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Jul 1, 2018 11:34
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UFO sighting in the US also tend to qualitatively correlate to whatever the US military was testing at the time - see for example all the triangles in the early 80’s, when Lockheed was testing the F-117. Now maybe the USAF is testing poo poo that looks like existing planes... or they’re out of R&D money.
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Jul 1, 2018 16:07
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Or they've finally developed optical stealth camouflage 
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Jul 1, 2018 16:22
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 Lower number = better at keeping equipment cool. im the mayonnaise.
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Jul 1, 2018 21:57
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What does the red mean. I could go for some coolant mustard rn
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Jul 1, 2018 22:19
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Jul 1, 2018 22:22
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Found the source https://www.hardwaresecrets.com/thermal-compound-roundup-january-2012/5/
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Jul 1, 2018 22:25
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Jul 1, 2018 22:50
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The entire series of those is great.
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Jul 1, 2018 23:05
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There's a series of those??
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Jul 2, 2018 00:33
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Same with a lot of other paranormal poo poo. Before the days of "literally everybody can record anything they see at a moment's notice" you could start a story with "well I was alone and..." and it was ultimately up to people if they believed you or not. There was no way to actually verify it. Now you'd get "well why didn't you record it?" If that kind of thing actually happened there'd be way more video of it. The fact that there isn't pretty strongly shows that a lot of it was bullshit.
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Jul 2, 2018 01:02
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catfry posted:Is this graph accurate regarding construction costs? I imagine it varies from sub-field to sub-field. I mostly deal in roads, and when ARRA came out in 2009, bid prices fell to less than half of what they were the previous year. The graph doesn't say any more than "real construction costs" so I don't know how accurate it is, I'd need to know what source they're using. For a graph that's awful in a different way:  RAM prices are about 3x as high as they were two years ago. There is some pending legal action against the cartels amid lots and lots of rumors of price fixing - I guess we'll see where that goes.
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Jul 2, 2018 02:03
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FrozenVent posted:UFO sighting in the US also tend to qualitatively correlate to whatever the US military was testing at the time - see for example all the triangles in the early 80’s, when Lockheed was testing the F-117. Hasn't it just been the F35 for like the last decade or so? Maybe people have just learned to recognize what it looks like and don't get excited anymore.
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Jul 2, 2018 05:53
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Hasn't it just been the F35 for like the last decade or so? Maybe people have just learned to recognize what it looks like and don't get excited anymore.
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Jul 2, 2018 06:10
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Hasn't it just been the F35 for like the last decade or so? Maybe people have just learned to recognize what it looks like and don't get excited anymore. Nah there's still a lot of spooky stuff flying around the southwest/midwest but it's mainly drones or prototypes for stuff like the B-21 or the alleged Project IX stealth transport/tanker. 
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Jul 2, 2018 06:16
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Cichlidae posted:I imagine it varies from sub-field to sub-field. I mostly deal in roads, and when ARRA came out in 2009, bid prices fell to less than half of what they were the previous year. The graph doesn't say any more than "real construction costs" so I don't know how accurate it is, I'd need to know what source they're using. I thought the price hike was because of bitcoin though?
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Jul 2, 2018 08:39
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Same with a lot of other paranormal poo poo. Before the days of "literally everybody can record anything they see at a moment's notice" you could start a story with "well I was alone and..." and it was ultimately up to people if they believed you or not. There was no way to actually verify it. Now you'd get "well why didn't you record it?" If that kind of thing actually happened there'd be way more video of it. The fact that there isn't pretty strongly shows that a lot of it was bullshit. Yeah, nowadays you just take a picture of an empty room and people will start pointing out ghosts in lens flares and dust particles for you.
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Jul 2, 2018 09:13
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Furia posted:I thought the price hike was because of bitcoin though? AFAIK RAM prices as well as NAND prices were rising even before the Bitcoin craze, I remember that two years ago when I was buying a new computer GPUs were still reasonably priced and unaffected by mining, but manufacturers were already facing shortages of RAM and flash memory and were starting with price hikes, supposedly due to smartphone demand outstripping manufacturing growth. steinrokkan has a new favorite as of 09:19 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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steinrokkan posted:AFAIK RAM prices as well as NAND prices were rising even before the Bitcoin craze, I remember that two years ago when I was buying a new computer GPUs were still reasonably priced and unaffected by mining, but manufacturers were already facing shortages of RAM and flash memory and were starting with price hikes, supposedly due to smartphone demand outstripping manufacturing growth. Way before, correct. There’s just general shortage of the stuff and suspected cartel price fixing.
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Jul 2, 2018 15:18
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C.M. Kruger posted:Nah there's still a lot of spooky stuff flying around the southwest/midwest but it's mainly drones or prototypes for stuff like the B-21 or the alleged Project IX stealth transport/tanker. What if the plane wasn't flying level along the roll axis? If it was slowly turning, with one wing lower that would explain why the exhaust appears closer together.
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Jul 2, 2018 15:32
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There is really no point in arguing with a guy going “it’s shaped like a B2, it’s the same size and uses the same mode of propulsion. However under this angle in this blurry picture the contrail doesn’t quite line up therefore aliens.”
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Jul 2, 2018 17:05
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Isn't that just one of the drones that we've known about since Iran disabled one in 2011?
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Jul 2, 2018 17:28
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One point on the back would mean it's that drone, three would be the B-2, but I can't tell in the lovely picture. The "enhanced" one is even worse.
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Jul 2, 2018 19:44
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C.M. Kruger posted:Nah there's still a lot of spooky stuff flying around the southwest/midwest but it's mainly drones or prototypes for stuff like the B-21 or the alleged Project IX stealth transport/tanker.
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Was it good for you?
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Jul 4, 2018 01:35
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First time in twenty-two years, god drat it was.
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Jul 4, 2018 01:39
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TinTower posted:First time in twenty-two years, god drat it was. it's hard to pick up running after a long break, good for you
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Jul 4, 2018 02:01
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https://twitter.com/tmcgev/status/1014175738935857153
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Jul 4, 2018 02:38
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Here cums the sun (Doo doo doo doo)
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heat "stroke" heh
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