I’m glad you guys are so curious about the Maui disaster and thank you for the enlightening links you’ve provided. Keep up the good work; I’ll try to circle back to this subject soon. # I was researching a section of my photo book that deals with fraud in photography and thought to use ChatGPT rather than a search engine.…
The Never Ending Story
I’m afraid I recommended Demystify Science Postcast a bit prematurely. They just had Michael Shermer on and not only let him off every hook there is but didn’t even dangle one. I left a comment but it doesn’t appear on my MacBook, so I did a screenshot of it via my iPad. They say they don’t delete comments but in…
‘9’ Means a Parenthesis
Thanks to those who have suggested solutions to my keyboard problem. Yes, of course, get a new board! I ordered one, plus mouse, for less than $40 and will be back on the blog as soon as they arrive, i.e., on August 16th. I actually have a lot to say, especially about Elon Musk, who and what he really is…
More Mac Woes
Sorry for the silence but I’m struggling over what lies are most important and at the same time inarguable: An embarrassment of riches. On the other hand, my MacBook Pro is driving me nuts: the cursor keeps jumping around and getting stuck. Anyone have any thoughts? 9this was supposed to be in parens but I’m stuck on 9, and so…
Get Dymstify-ed
I’ve spent the past few weeks going over the archives of a channel I stumbled across and which knocked me out for how it does not assume that any ‘standard model’ is correct and plays active devil’s advocate for promising paradigms that the mainstream won’t touch. Demystifyingscience is hosted by a young (married) couple, both Ph.Ds in physics, which is especially encouraging…
Iron Mountain
Note: I started this post a while back but it fizzled. However, yesterday’s Senate hearing on UFOs spurred me to more or less finish it, at least enough so I could provide a link. Also, no images today as I am unable to embed; the usual WordPress crapola. I’ll try again later. (As you can see, I did.) # Given…
Another Meanwhile
Last night I stumbled upon a movie at Youtube that had a true effect upon my life when I first saw it back in 1983, at a Westwood, LA theater. First thing it did was knock me out. Knocked me out to the extent that I went back the next day to see it again. I’ve probably seen it 20…
As Promised…
As promised, here is my whole exchange with ChatGPT re the Falcon 9 fraud. If you take the time to go through it all you will see that GPT gets ‘confused’ because while being programmed to accept the ‘truth’ of the Spacex missions, the actual numbers — distances and speeds traveled and so on — make no sense at all.…
A ‘Boost Back Burn’?
Those who read my last post — assuming they were paying any attention at all — will have noticed that ChatGPT (and indirectly, Spacex itself) claims that in a Falcon 9 orbital injection mission neither the spacecraft itself nor its booster (the first stage) at any time flies in a westward direction, which is strange to say the least, given…
Who Or What Is Elon Musk?
I love ChatGPT! As I’ve said before, ChatGPT is like having a silicon-based Michael Shermer — whom I can truss up, eyes pinned open (a la A Clockwork Orange) — and have him at my beck and call to answer thorny questions that (out of intellectual terror) no gatekeeper in his/her right mind would sit still for. I didn’t until…