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pallen says...

So many problems with this... first of all, www.whitehouse.gov is not an IP address, it's a host name. That's more of a technicality. The real problem is that the address returned by that tool is not the address of the person -using- the IP address, it's most likely the address where that IP address is registered. So if an ISP registers a block of IP addresses using their address in New York City, and assigns those IP addresses to their users in Kansas, you'd see the marker on the satellite image over New York City, not Kansas.

In general, this method will get you relatively close to the location (i.e. same city, or at least same state), but that pointer will almost never be over the actual house or building in which the end user is located.

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Pretty scary stuff, how could it be stopped?

pallen says...

It vaporized the melon and somehow managed to leave that wooden post completely unharmed. No charing, no damage, nothing. Or maybe the melon just fell off the post. If it really did vaporize the melon without touching the wood, I guess we should just stop making our airplanes out of watermelons and use something stronger like steel.

Looks like more FUD to me.

Penn & Teller Bullsh*t - Conspiracy Theories - Moon Landing

pallen says...

This is a pretty typical attempt by mainstream media to debunk a myth or a conspiracy. I'm not saying I support the moon landing conspiracy theories. I honestly haven't read much about them. But if you're really looking to make a sound argument against a set of claims such as these, you don't bring in this guy to represent the other side. While the moon landing conspirators may well be wrong, I doubt he's the brightest or most credible advocate amongst them. The shot of him chugging the vodka from the gallon bottle demonstrates my point exactly; they aren't attacking the claims, they're attacking one messenger and hoping they can take down the conspiracy theory with him.

If their goal was to make everyone laugh at the conspiracy theorists and call them crazy idiots, then this segment was probably pretty effective. If their goal was to prove that the conspiracy theory itself is "bullshit", then they missed the mark entirely. This is just 7 minutes of name calling, not a scientific examination of facts. Then again, they started as magicians. They're quite adept at the art of misdirection.

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