About Matt Kaufman:
I am a philosopher, software engineer, computer geek, Buddhist, vegan and now, expert noun-lister.
My Email: nnvqbgmnathc at spammotel dot com
About Kompato: It means compassion in Esperanto.
My Code:
Teamspeak Monitor - A web application to monitor Teamspeak usage (PHP/MySQL)
tsmonwatcher - A client-side application that works with TeamSpeak Monitor to alert on TeamSpeak events (Python)
Notice the headline in the lower left. Undisputed? It's especially perplexing because they have mutually exclusive banners at the bottom of the screen.
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While I thoroughly enjoy questioning assumptions and engaging in conversations at the edge of scientific discovery, the quality of programming on supposedly reputable TV channels is terribly sad nowadays.
For example, the History Channel has the series, "UFO Hunters" where, based on the episode I watched, they assume everything is a mysterious unidentified object if they can't explain it clearly within a few moments, with little substantial research. I base this observation on a case where a man took a bunch of video of lights descending, and they plotted out where he was located and the direction he was facing in the various videos. They showed the following map with the location of major airports and discussed the one sight line to the west-southwest where there were no airports located. Their conclusion was that the objects were "unidentified" because there were no airports in the direction which the man saw the lights.
Problem #1 -- their standards for identifying an object or declaring it "unidentified" are very low. The very reason the objects were "unidentified" in this case was due to their lack of effort in identifying them.
Problem #2 -- 30 seconds of searching online would have revealed that there are no less than 3 airports in that general direction: Westchester County Airport, Teterboro Airport, and Caldwell Wright Airport.
There is certainly plenty of mystery in the world around us. Too bad there's not more time dedicated to exploring the real mysteries instead of the manufactured ones.
Side note: I am perfectly willing to believe in extraterrestrial life -- in fact, it seems statistically likely that we're not the only life in the universe. This post is a complaint about shoddy scientific inquiry (perhaps better described as non-scientific inquiry).
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