What a wonderful video from a time so very long ago. Can you believe that this is what it used to be like here?

I will object to his use of the word "elastic" though. The glass generally breaks when used as a hammer because it is brittle, and the water prevents this (if the experiment is set up correctly) because it is (nearly) incompressible. It is not really meaningful to say that water is or is not elastic, because it is a fluid and elasticity is a property of solids (yes I know, compressible fluids are in some imprecise sense "elastic").

Rubber bands are elastic within the (wait for it) "elastic range," and metal and (definitely) glass are not elastic outside of the elastic range. However, it is a common surprising fact pointed out in any textbook with a title like "Strength and Elasticity" that rubber is surprisingly incompressible in comparison to its stiffness.

The surprising result with the bubbles can be read about here. For a more intuitive picture, imagine a small bubble sliced in half (so we are looking at a hemisphere). The inner pressure pushes in one direction (say up) with total force pi*(p_i)*(r_i)^2. The outer (ambient) pressure pushes the other way (i.e. down) with total force pi*(p_o)*(r_o)^2. If you drew your picture carefully, you will see that surface tension pulls in the same direction as the outside pressure, with total force 2pi*(r_av)*(s), s the surface tension per unit length.

If you assume that the thickness of the bubble is negligible compared to its radius, you will get that the pressure inside the bubble is 4*s / r_av larger than the ambient pressure. This means that small bubbles have a higher internal pressure than large ones, so that the bubbles do not equalize, as the host guessed, but the small bubble vacates into the large one.

Obviously, the demonstration of the principle of the submarine is presuming gravity is pulling everything downward, because the good professor is a "globetard" like all smart people are, lol.

Wow! I'll never forget that time he gave a, what I would call "fair" coverage of what Pizzagate was and then got totally nuked. That was when I knew that it was "on balance true." This is not to say that every email was being correctly interpreted or even that the pizza parlor was involved, but that there was child trafficking going on among the ruling / political class and the Podesta emails were in fact evidence of that.

All Ben did was give a factual description of what Pizzagate was. He never said it was true. He did not even suggest there could be a hint of validity to it. But while the marching orders were "far right baseless internet conspiracy theory" he dared to simply cover what it factually was. And boom. He was gone.

One of the craziest things I ever saw. Up there with Julian Assange saying in the interview on Dutch TV what he said about Seth Rich.

LOL. Interesting. I'll have to look into this. It reminds me of When They See Us. In that case too, they settled before it went to court, and part of the settlement included the statement at the beginning of the docudrama which now basically says that it is a work of fiction.

The video is not about the light bulb, it is about the battery. The Wiki I linked to says that the durability can be 50 years, which means that yes, there likely exist batteries still working after 100 years +. I am just saying that if you read about the battery and compare it to the other common electro-chemistries, you can see what the limitations are and why it is not as commonly used as the life alone would lead you to think. There is more to battery design and selection than the maximum amount of deep cycles.

The link to Wikipedia was really just to indicate that this battery is not any sort of secret, as I assume everyone views Wikipedia as the prime example of "the official source of information." The article indicates pretty clearly that this battery design has long life as one of its strongest points. The problems with the battery should be pretty apparent from the article, especially when considering the demands needed by an application like automotive.

Also, I will look at Wikipedia whenever I desire, thank you very much. There are a lot of conspiracies that get hawked on the internet, many of them bad, and Wiki is one of the fastest ways to get the "official response" to them and test these responses for reasonableness and validity. It also turns out that Wiki is a pretty good summary of information as long as it is not too controversial. Scientific data usually falls into that category. When this assumption fails, I don't hesitate to get controversial scientific information from elsewhere.

My comment specifically said that if you dispute the numbers published on Wikipedia, I encourage you to build your own forever battery. I don't mind if someone disputes what is on Wikipedia. Even Wikipedia itself says they aren't a citable source of information lmao.

I have to say, for some reason your responses are one of my favorite parts of this place, lmao.

These sorts of videos tend to make conspiracies about things that are literally just on Wikipedia. The exact story in this video is in the History section of the article. People are welcome to make these batteries if they want, but their performance as compared to Lead-Acid is not hard to find, and it is apparent why the NiFe was not adopted for automotive use.

If people think that the "official numbers" on Wikipedia are a lie as a part of a larger conspiracy, then fine I guess. I am not really interested in debating that. In that case, I would just advise you to make some forever batteries and make yourself some money.

If the French don't like what is happening to them then they can man up and say "Hitler was right and we were wrong." The fact that they sorta fought on the right side of the war does not count. It was only due to their surrendering so fast and there was always a French Underground engaging in resistance against the Germans.

I'm just sick of seeing all these whining white people all around the world going "boo hoo why is this happening to us, we are the good guys who stopped the Nazis." Well, guess what, dummy...

It seems you are coming at this more from a Christian worldview, and I have to say that after reading your "disclosure" it is apparent that you actually have a pretty good understanding of the geometry of spacetime and other aspects of time travel that most normal people don't really think about.

I understand your interest in FE. I also started reading / watching flat earth material with no expectation of ever being convinced, but just out of curiosity as to what the arguments were. After going through it and having some fun, I then became more interested in the phenomenon itself. In my view, there is zero doubt that FE was a centrally executed psyop. I can't answer whether it was the CIA, some other US agency, the UN, the jews, or whatever. But it was. However, I do have to admit that there are definitely real believers too. Even if it was a psyop, it is now part organic. Not everyone is a shill.

IMO, flat earthers can be divided into believers and non believers. The non believers definitely include some grifters, but I believe it also includes intentional disinfo agents likely from the intel agencies. The believers include a variety of people. Some are general conspiratorial people who doubt everything from government, some are biblical literalists. They seem to have different reasons.

A few years ago I would read the FlatEarthResearch board here. I initially thought that Jack223344whatever was a believer, but over time I saw him also indicate that he started that one to study the FE psyop. It sounds like you did the FlatEarth one for similar reasons? I am also wondering if, since Christian theology is important to you, you were maybe talking some of those evangelical FEers off the cliff of "you must believe this or you are not a Christian" (I believe this to be a jewish psyop myself).

Personally, because I am such a math and science fan, and not the "believe science" dumbass kind on the left, I have no problem with FE. I encourage people to question what they are told from authority figures and investigate for themselves. However, if they actually did that, those people (FEers) would have to learn real math and physics and would eventually reject the pancake and all other models for the oblate spheroid. If the FE people were serious, I would love to talk them through their doubts and confusion, because it is true that most pop science explanations are bullshit.

However, they are not serious, as can be seen from your old board. They respond to pretty much anything with calling the person a brainwashed idiot for believing a magical sticky force holds them to a sphere spinning at 1000 miles per hour. There is never any attempt to rationally investigate what that means.

Plot Twist:

There actually was a group of military leaders who had organized to stop the communists' takeover. It just wasn't in Russia. It was in Germany. TheMoreYouKnow.jpg.

Your "disclosure of time travel" looks interesting but I can't read all that tonight. I'll have to come back to it. I don't want you to dox yourself, but what exactly is your "office" if it cleared you to disclose how time travel works?

I am having a hard time figuring you out. Are you a flat earth person, or did you run that board as an experiment?

I hear you. Time travel can be cool to think about but I think it is difficult for a movie to do it well. In my experience, movies generally (1) try too hard to explain the physics of how they are time traveling and (2) allow for so much freedom in the time travel that the plot becomes amorphous. In all seriousness, using a DeLorean with 1.21 gigawatts (mispronounced "jiggawats" of course) might be the best explanation for time travel of any movie.

But overall, I think my objection to Interstellar was that it was shilled in liberal circles as this "physically accurate movie that used real theoretical physicists as consultants." Its "physics" was about as realistic as Star Wars. I mean, the worm hole is "behind Saturn"? What does that even mean? It follows Saturn's orbit around the sun, but it doesn't orbit Saturn itself like all the moons and rings do? I guess since we have never seen a worm hole, no one can say for sure that this makes no sense...

So I think it is just a matter of interest and philosophy. SwampRanger is more interested in Sci Fi from that perspective it seems. Mostly as it functions as a morality and even religious allegory. So I understand that. My issue is that I love math and science so these movies always drive me bonkers.

I think OP's point in this post was making fun of the "believe science" people, who are generally liberals. OP disputes the globe model of the earth, I know this because he told me. He may be surprised to read this, but when it comes to posts like this one here, I actually agree with his main position. I.e., that people nowadays just "believe science." The reason why I have given the flat earthers much more time than I should have was because in my opinion, there should be nothing wrong with challenging the globe model or anything else in science. My problem is that most of these people have already made up their minds. They dispute the globe and there is no evidence that can sway them. But I like the challenge of flat earth theory, just like I like to hear why the moon landing was actually impossible.

I am sure that most of my liberal friends who loved Interstellar will never watch a flat earth documentary and work through their arguments one by one. Fundamentally, when they answer the FE argument that the oceans should fly off the ball that "they don't because of gravity," they are fitting exactly what FE people accuse them of. Because none of them can actually calculate what the centrifugal effect is at the equator.

The rules are the rules I guess but you don't have to remove anything on my behalf. I wasn't taking any offense to it, and I'm sure I have said some controversial things here. After all, I think that the world is round and NASA rockets go to outer space, so I am probably in the minority in this place!

Wow, I just read the Wiki on The Black Hole. What a great little cult classic. Also ridiculous, but honestly less so than Interstellar IMO. Thanks for the reference.

The basic relativistic effects referred to in Interstellar are real, like time dilation. So in principle a planet orbiting near a black hole could have that sort of time effect that you see in the movie. But the entire premise of the movie and most of the delivery of it make no sense. Of course, for speculative things like the wormhole and whatever, it is almost impossible to say it is inaccurate because in all likelihood such things do not exist.

I am sure that the visualization of the black hole is mostly accurate, which is what the video from OP is originally talking about. I mean, no one has ever gone to look at a black hole, but in the case of a black hole we know what it is and have more or less exact equations that you could use to make simulated graphics like this for a movie.

The premise of the movie is: (1) (Former NASA pilot) Man's daughter sees weird behavior of dust in her room (2) Weird dust behavior "traced to a gravitational anomaly at a NASA facility" (whatever that means) (3) Man goes to NASA facility and finds out that for 48 years they have been "watching a wormhole on the far side of Saturn to another galaxy near its black hole" (just think about how insane this premise is (4) Due to "muh climate change" the NASA scientists determined that a more likely survival scenario is to fly humans to Saturn to traverse the wormhole to another galaxy to look for inhabitable planets (again, consider how ridiculous this premise is) because they cannot solve their "magic gravity equation to save humanity" unless they can "see a black hole singularity" (5)The search party found 3 contenders and NASA wants Man to lead a team to go check up on them (6) Team traverses wormhole and subset goes to first planet which is so close the black hole the Lorentz factor is 1 hour : 22 years (or whatever) (7) Team lands on this planet with no problem but is hit by a tidal wave, making it take an hour to get off, then simply returns to the ship (8) Team goes to next planet but Matt Damon is a secret villain who betrayed humanity (9) Team survives and the only way home is a gravitational slingshot around the black hole where Man (and one of the robots) sacrifice themselves to the black hole "in order to save weight" (10) Man falls into the black hole and the robot takes all sorts of important data (11) Inside the black hole Man is in a tesseract looking at himself and his daughter in the past (12) Man is able to tap out the data from inside the black hole to his daughter in the past so that when she grows up she will have the data to solve the "magic gravity equation and save humanity" (13) Now that its purpose to save humanity is fulfilled, the black hole tesseract collapses out of existence (14) The black hole returns Man to his home planet of earth, where his (now elderly) daughter has saved humanity with the "magic gravity equation."

Sorry about all that. But anyway, it should be clear why this is totally ridiculous, even by Hollywood standards. What they are talking about with this post are that the visualizations are mathematically consistent with GR.

I guess I am evaluating it from a scifi, and specifically as a "sci semi nonfi" (which is what it was shilled as) perspective. If you want to evaluate it from the perspective of morality or human society and being united or whatever then fine. Also, if you evaluate it from the usual "it's a movie it isn't supposed to be accurate" perspective, then yeah. Laser swords make no sense but Star Wars was wildly popular.

But as a movie specifically shilled as "this movie is based on on real science in consultation with real physicists" it is retarded. The entire plot makes no more sense than Star Wars, Star Trek, The Terminator, The Matrix, Time Cop, or any other movie.

I would believe that those visualization scenes were based on real simulations of the EFEs though, which I guess is kind of cool.

Interstellar is the most retarded movie ever made and only the worst of the midwits liked it. Kip Thorne should be embarrassed to have been a "scientific consultant" on it and written a book literally entitled "The Science of Interstellar." I would honestly cite Space Balls as having a more scientifically coherent plot.

Ever since it became obvious in mid 2024 that Trump would be allowed back into the Whitehouse to support the Israel wars, I have been expecting an assassination. I know they did that one in PA back during the campaign, but that was not a serious attempt, but rather one to make him look like a hero.

Despite Trump's absurd attempt to rewrite history, MAGA was always about non interventionism. Also, despite all the crap you read in left wing news, MAGA was (to a large extent) never a cult. Just see Trump's failure at selling the vaccine to his supporters.

So, given that Trump was allowed back into the WH to lead his supporters into war, but in my judgement he would be unable to sell the war, what option does that leave Israel? To be complete, it was always possible that Trump get a quick victory (Venezuela style) and not need to sell the war to the public. He could just proclaim himself a genius and everyone could mock the "panicans."

But with each passing day, this "quick victory" over Iran is approaching the realm of "vanishing likelihood." So if Trump cannot deliver the easy victory, and he cannot sell support for mass mobilization, what does that leave? Remember, in some sense, conspiracy theories are not "wrong" they just "have not happened yet." IMO, keep your eyes peeled, because Trump's utility to the jews is diminishing by the day. As everyone who has done even cursory research knows, they are absolutely ruthless, will stop at nothing, and will certainly stab any goy in the back. Trump better hope the rumors about his being part jewish are true.

FWIW, as of now I don't think there is anything overly suspicious about last night. I think it is believable it is some resistance moron teacher from California who wanted to "stop fascism before it's too late." But who knows. Maybe they wanted a rando to fail like this before a successful attempt to prime the public? At any rate, I don't doubt the big decision makers for the Zios are war gaming all this out right now.