The humiliating truth behind Harvard astronomer's "alien" spherules (bigthink.com)
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science@mander.xyz on 19 Mar 2024 21:04
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happybadger@hexbear.net on 19 Mar 2024 21:21 next collapse

He had to be fleecing the private sponsor of the expedition. Even when he was making the sci-fi youtube circuit during the planning stages of it, particularly with Event Horizon, it seemed so absurd from the start. To pinpoint a location like that and find what you’re looking for immediately at the bottom of the sea doesn’t otherwise happen and he was absolutely confident in the anticipated result of a hypothesis with no basis. There was one conclusion right from the outset and that’s so wildly divorced from how science works.

Hopefully it ruins his career.

boogetyboo@aussie.zone on 19 Mar 2024 23:47 next collapse

Off topic but why the fuck is there an X on the ad box if it doesn’t actually close the ad window

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Mar 2024 01:42 collapse

Because it increases the chance of a click

boogetyboo@aussie.zone on 20 Mar 2024 01:55 collapse

But I closed the ad within (Google ad) but the container wouldn’t close.

I was so sure this was illegal…

Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi on 20 Mar 2024 13:48 collapse

I’ve been on 196 too much. I see “rule” in the title, I instantly think it’s supposed to be a meme.