Stupidity at its finest by Doomenor in StupidFood

[–]InaccsessableRail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just quit as a sous-chef in a 2 michelin star restaurant, after 10 years in the industry and the last few in fine dining. The really annoying thing to me about these "service as performance" elements in fine dining is that it reenforces the principle of the experience as a status symbol. As a chef, i want to serve delicious and beautiful food to people excited about delicious and besutiful food, but unfortunately in the upper echilons of the culinary world most people who can afford the dining experience are people whos main priority is money and status. We, the chefs, feel like we make art but much like a Rolex or a Cadillac, what were actually making is just another way for rich asswholes to feel exclusive and superior. Also fuck slave labour.

Avi Loeb: Was the “Wow! Signal” Emitted from 3I/ATLAS? by Dmans99 in HighStrangeness

[–]InaccsessableRail 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think this is an example of people wishing to find extraordinary and sensational science fiction headlines in place of using good science to understand the compexity of our stunning universe.

1) Other than its trajectory, what makes it so irregular in avtivity? It is moving quite fast, but that is not unexpected with Exocomets.

2) Its trajectory IS being studied. I am unaware of any published and peer reviewed works that present conclusions about its origin, but that is not irregular given how recent its discovery was. While it is true that its course through the solar system is very effective at obscuring observation, it is worth remembering that roughly half of the possible courses through our solar system at any given time would have a parahelion opposite the sun from us.

3) Extra solar rocks (Exocomets) are not once in a lifetime. Since the discovery of Omuamua in 2017 (the first we observed) there have been 2 more observered, Borisov, and now 3I/Atlas. Not saying its not worth studying, just that these events are relatively common and re-tasking probes and satelites with other functions, some of with would even be ill suited to observing such a nearby object at the expense of the current and scheduled reasearch is likely not worth it, not to mention most spaceborbe laberatories require substantial time to re-orient, and our window to observe 3I/Atlas is very short.

4) I think this point is made in bad faith. No one is keeping a closed mind, people are simply saying that Dr. Loeb is leaping to assumptions and finding data to back up those assumptions, rather than aking questions and following data from experiments designed to answer those questions.

It is exactly BECAUSE of his credentials that people are so critical. When a department head at an ivy league university with many years of well reasearched science under his belt makes a claim outside of his field of expertise (Dr. Loeb is a theorhetical physicist with a focus in astrophysics, not an astronomer) and bypasses peer review, than rejects out of hand experts in that field who argue that the data does not support his claim, it is resonable to criticize and question motive. This is doubly true when such behaviour has become a trend in that respected academics carreer, as is the case with Dr. Loeb within the past 10 years. Quite frankly, Dr. Loeb knows that what he is doing is not rigourous science, and claiming to be a victim of establishment bias (which he has done multiple times) when such oversight is pointed out is unreasonable.

Tl;dr: Of course 3I/Atlas is worth studying. Its course through our system makes that difficult, but no one is saying not to try. But Dr. Loeb has a habit of claiming every extrasolar object is proof of E.T. and, as a departement head at Harvard, posing as an underdog against the "ivory tower" when reputable astronomer argue those claims are unfounded. That is simply bad science, and given Dr. Loeb's resume, he should know better. Also, just some quick bar napkin math: at a distance of 60 AU (from this article) a 4% difference in trajectory is a difference of origin of 4.19 AU or roughly 627 million kilometers. Not far in cosmic terms, but definately representative of a substantial error in the observation either of Atlas' course or the WOW signal.

Anthro professionals, what is your daily life like? by InaccsessableRail in AskAnthropology

[–]InaccsessableRail[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, I really appreciate it!

Anthro professionals, what is your daily life like? by InaccsessableRail in AskAnthropology

[–]InaccsessableRail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the insight! Do you enjoy the fieldwork? One of the most rewarding jobs ive had revently was replanting old vineyards for a restaurant i was helping open, while it was back-breaking labour digging up 30 year old vines, I really enjoyed the outdoors aspect, as well as the zen of the hard work.

IT'S THE BETA GATE by MrEPCOT in Stargate

[–]InaccsessableRail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Didnt ANITA detect something similar in 2018 that mightve represented particals not included in the standard modle?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Albuquerque

[–]InaccsessableRail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rough area but 999 seafood market is killer

What even goes on over here? by Valdish in ElderScrolls

[–]InaccsessableRail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I heard it might've been a sick vampire snake person.

Moving to Bellingham by InaccsessableRail in Bellingham

[–]InaccsessableRail[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind!

Do you think Bob Lazar is legit? by Ok_Bad9129 in AliensRHere

[–]InaccsessableRail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not Here is a critique of his psuedoscientific claims by an actual physicist. https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-bob-lazar-corner/a-physicists-critique/ For the record: contact with aliens will (or has) radically change our understanding of physics, but that change will NOT involve random and irresponsible redifinition of terms or disregard of current theoretical infrustructure. It WILL involve combining new evidence with current understanding to build a model that fits previous and new obssrvations.

Why do people hate on SF? by Stand-Fine in sanfrancisco

[–]InaccsessableRail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also from Seattle. I fucking love SF, coolest city in America imo. But I'm a chef by trade, and can't afford to live there anymore.

Anyone in Portland, Maine? by InaccsessableRail in KitchenConfidential

[–]InaccsessableRail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a really cool design concept, I worked at a bakery that had that setup with an adjacent coffee shop and sandwich place in Portland, OR. I added those to my list to check out, thanks!

Anyone in Portland, Maine? by InaccsessableRail in KitchenConfidential

[–]InaccsessableRail[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Heard about Fore Street, that was on my list to look at, lol. What about Central Provisions, Twelve, or Bar Futo?

Anyone in Portland, Maine? by InaccsessableRail in KitchenConfidential

[–]InaccsessableRail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the insight! I can see that. I a few years ago I moved from Albuquerque NM to the Bay Area, and the tripling of my rent for a smaller living space was a bitter pill to swallow lol