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> For example, is it possible that unknown to the public there were multiple launches of artificial satellites long before Sputnik with some launches timed to c
by surprisetalk 6mo ago
> For example, is it possible that unknown to the public there were multiple launches of artificial satellites long before Sputnik with some launches timed to coincide with U.S. nuclear tests? Or rather, do the current findings represent detection of a non-human technosignature? Due to data limitations, such hypotheses cannot be subjected to falsification.
- estimator7292 6mo agoThis is why we need better education in this country. Anyone who has read any amount of history from this time should know that this is very simply not possible. This statment is unfalsifiable in the same way that "I'm a six-legged alien from Venus typing this message from orbit" is unfalsifiable. It's just flat nonsense.
- _alternator_ 6mo agoThis actually _is_ falsifiable; I've written before that you can determine whether the point-spread function of the transients match the PSF of stars. If not, then it does not come from outer space, it's an issue with the film, i.e., radiation.