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> On Earth today, correcting for water, glints are strong indicators of human spaces, due to our many flat reflecting surfaces. Followed immediately by a pictu
by ceejayoz 1y ago
> On Earth today, correcting for water, glints are strong indicators of human spaces, due to our many flat reflecting surfaces.
Followed immediately by a picture of water and an icy tree, lol. "Correcting", indeed. "Correcting for expenses, I'm very wealthy!"
> three good LLMs told me we are pretty sure
Ah.
- perihelions 1y agoI don't understand why there's so many starving astronomy PhD's and yet HN prefers to read astronomy blogposts written by amateurs asking ChatGPT5 what the astronomers think. Can't HN just link to competent peoples' writing instead?
- ceejayoz 1y agoBecause the astronomy PhDs would know these transients on sky surveys are entirely normal, and how we spot asteroids etc. And that our solar system has trillions of little chunks of water floating around it. "This is normal" makes for boring reading.
- ljf 1y agoAt first I was interested, then I read their other blog posts...
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoDoes it matter when they link to their source, right at the top, which points to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_multiple-transient_events_in_the_First_Palomar_Sky_Survey https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_m... ?
- ceejayoz 1y agoAnyone can upload papers to ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283268416_Conditioning_of_Space-Time_The_Relationship_between_Experimental_Entanglement_Space-Memory_and_Consciousness_Journal_of_Nonlocality_Round_Table_Series_Colloquium_4 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283268416_Condition... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331977356_The_electronic_song_Scary_Monsters_and_Nice_Sprites_reduces_host_attack_and_mating_success_in_the_dengue_vector_Aedes_aegypti https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331977356_The_elect...
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoYes, yes. But have read the linked one?
- ceejayoz 1y agoYes. It much more reponsibly admits the existence of plausible alternative explanations than the blog post does, and its page notes that it may not have been peer reviewed yet.
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y agoIt also says In this paper, we present the first optical searches for artificial objects with high specular reflections near the Earth. and was published only a few weeks ago. Give it time?