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Unfortunately, there's just not enough evidence to make a determination. As was said earlier, another camera beside it would have been helpful, to see if it picked up the same thing. A camera pointed at the first camera would have shown if there was just some lint blowing around in front of the...

Ivan, that help you give others also makes you feel good about yourself. In that respect, you're doing what makes you happy as well. There's nothing wrong or selfish about that. It just shows your helpful character as a person, and that's a good thing. Helping others should make people feel...

First vid: there's no orbs. True orbs, if there is any validity to the concept of orbs in the first place, will be bluish or greenish in color; anything else, especially red, is likely to be light reflecting off of dust or insects. They will appear to be solid, and have their own light instead...

RA, in order to be a meaningful energy source, the energy extracted has to be a significant portion of the energy put into it. It is unlikely that the energy extracted from two grapes in a micro-wave would be comparable to conventional and/or nuclear methods. Unfortunately, the "fuel" here is...

If 20,000,000 people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing. The Lemming Philosophy of jumping to a conclusion simply because a large number of other people have already jumped to it is illogical. Grouping every sighting into one bin is also illogical, because not every sighting is the...

Oh. Sorry; I didn't realize. But it doesn't answer it all, and introduces the LD50 system, so that should also be helpful to research, so I wasn't a complete knucklehead there. I hope, anyway...

The following is from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor There's more, but this answers your question, with a citation; something which I prefer to include when I can. William Ockham (c. 1285–1349) … is remembered as an influential nominalist, but his popular fame as a...

Many paralytic venoms used by spiders and other creatures affect the opening and closing of those channels. A paralytic will work either by causing the channels to open wide, causing the signals to continue non-stop, or slam shut, so no signals are sent and the muscles don't contract at all. A...

An interesting wrinkle in this is that Circadian Rhythms make just about everything from birds to us more prone to sleep between the hours of about 2 and 5 in the morning. Arachnologists are quite upset by this, because evolution, therefore, favored spiders that built their webs during those...

Because salt is sodium and chloride (NaCl); both are far more toxic to humans than carbon, hydrogen and oxygen (C6H12O6). Granted, we eat a little salt, and our bodies actually need it. But the toxicologist's credo is "the dose maketh the poison." Any substance, in sufficiently large doses...

...possibly a very, very slowly spinning pulsar, with a very great tilt, and a resultingly slow precession of its axis? Hells. I don't even know if that theory on pulsars is still valid. But I'm sure someone will tell me.

Another possibility is that someone was broadcasting on a private radio with a transmitter that was WAY overpowered, and beyond anything the FCC allows. This happens a lot more often than people might know. If it's transmitting on a frequency near enough to the radio stations, or even on a...

Let me start by saying that I respect everyone's personal beliefs; that they have a right to these beliefs is not even in question. Along with that, I'm part of a paranormal investigations team, which is a fancy title for "ghost-hunters." We use the standard equipment to investigate homes...

What happens if the swing's shape is changed, by binding it together? This can't be debunked by watching a video. Experiments need to be performed. You can't perform the kind of experiments needed to analyze this on a video.

Occam's Razor, as Zoobyshoe put it, doesn't say that the simplest explanation is always right. It says that the simplest answer is often the best one. It in no way declares that the more complicated possibility is always wrong. Interestingly, Occam developed the razor to help him to convince...