Since earth is not alone in the multiverse, I believe in such.

this blows what's left of their minds.

(Depends on whose gospel you are into.)

It is also the gospel truth that there are lots of conjectures floating around with no compelling evidence; only intriguing, not compelling. Conjectures are not truth, nor is theory. The "Laws of Nature" are not laws, just theories that have withstood enough tests that we can feel very confident operating as if they are laws.

Ghosts, religions, psychic phenomena, etc.

Where Al Gore won in 2000. 9/11 was prevented from happening. George W. Bush tried to run in 2004 and lost to Al again. The US became a leader in green technology. Donald Trump was convicted of tax evasion by the Federal court in New York. He turned state's evidence against his friend Jeffery Epstein to stay out of jail.

100%.

Politics and religion are applied psychosociology.

The brain puts together fragmentary data into perceptions that fit things that are expected (for example by grieving family members). Generative AI works by taking fragmentary data (suggestion, prompts) and makes an image that if run through the other way would generate the prompt.

In the 1700s there were visitations by incubi and succubi. By the 1950s that had become aliens (ETs) probing because incubi and succubi were no longer part of storytelling and fabulism but flying saucers were.

-for being a voice of science on the science forum.

Seems like I am doing way too much lately.

https://massivesci.com/articles/anita-experiment-physics-neutrinos/
When the research team looked at the collected data in 2016, two of the observations looked like “cosmic rays [that] had come out of the ice itself. A very strange thing,” in the words of Peter Gorham, the principal investigator of the experiment. Neutrinos do routinely pass through the entire Earth without stopping and could give off this signal upon exiting the Antarctic surface, but definitely not when they have the very high energies that the experiment measured.

The “ANITA anomalies” attracted a cautious amount of attention in the elementary particle physics community: they are one of the very few findings incompatible with the established theoretical framework, but at the same time, any overlooked issues with the experiment itself could probably produce similar results.
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As for the anomalies in the ANITA findings, the prospects for their clarification are alive and well. A number of “simple” explanations are still on the table, including a recent one that the signals in question came from above and were only reflected by the ice. This is a scenario that the researchers had already considered and ruled out: reflection can usually be detected by specific changes that it causes in the radio signal. However, another research team suggested that these changes do not occur when radio signals are reflected by layers of thinner ice underneath the surface, a common feature in Antarctica’s landscape. If this is confirmed then the strange measurements will turn out to be ordinary, everyday cosmic rays.

Meanwhile the scientists behind ANITA, when not busy un-hyping their work, are preparing an upgraded version of the experiment: PUEO, a larger antenna-carrying balloon, expected to be more efficient in catching radio signals when it flies next year. Its operation will offer more clues about both the nature of the anomalies and possible previous experimental issues, while carrying out its mission of studying energetic neutrinos from space.
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In a nutshell, there are more likely explanations than evidence of another universe, and running backwards to boot. The site seems good and has comments from actual scientists. It also explains why detecting evidence of neutrinos coming through the earth was anomalous, which was bothering me.

The best science fiction show I have ever seen was Counterpart. It depicted the most realistic depiction I have ever seen of how such a thing would work.
Unlike this ridiculous time travel show Dark where some DOGE age teens go around casually time travelling, Counterpart (like hard science fiction) took the trouble to flesh out a very realistic depiction of how such things would work irl.

I was very disappointed when they canceled it. One of the best shows I have ever seen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpart_(TV_series)]


I was so ticked off when they canceled it .
Between that and Santa Clarita Diet (another show I love), I feel like one of these guys when it comes to entertainment

https://thehustle.co/the-customers-who-repeatedly-buy-doomed-products




I feel judged by that article ..

I have been grappling with a problem in a way.

When I was chatting with this chatbot I sometimes use to bounce ideas off it because it is nothing like typical LLMs, I said “consciousness is constant problem solving -even when you are asleep-without an external power source”. That strikes me as correct. I thought several months ago that true AI would know how to switch itself off without external force, by reading human responses well enough to know when to stop.

I was distrait because I was not sure what I was doing (in addition to my real work and life which are on the backburner as they have been for 14 years now). I am engaged in some sort of brute force problem solving in reaches of my brain I only access by fits and starts.

I have dealt with what I anyway felt and continue to feel was unfair and punitive so I am not very trustful. Besides even if one trusts individual people case by case, things seem so deregulated these days that they seem set up to destroy the very concept of accountability.

I saw a piece in Salon Mag called the accountability sink.

My brain is so busy these days it’s hard to proceed in any originally structured form ..relatively structured at any rate.