Has anyone here ever U-turned in their scientific beliefs? I have twice. I saw a couple hobbyists in the media trying to fly on their drones flying carpet style claiming "flying cars were near" and I laughed at them for wasting their time on a dead-end because I believed batteries weren't good enough and this seemed to be verified because they only ever hovered for a few seconds. But then I got curious, did the calculations and it's totally possible to fly on a car sized drone for around half an hour if it's designed right. Now I invest money in my own personal-aerial-vehicle projects.
More controversially I also used to scoff at any UFO claims until I found out that there were many military investigations on it that still drew up blanks. I still don't believe it's aliens but I now believe that there is something to it beyond merely hallucinating.
Moral of these stories is never dismiss anything until you've done the calculations or looked at the data.
>>7929858
Yes, I used to be very pro-GMO crops, thought they had solved the food crisis etc and now I think they're mostly just marginally more convenient for global agriculture corporations and introduce systemic risk unless variety is carefully enforced.
>>7929858
>But then I got curious, did the calculations and it's totally possible to fly on a car sized drone for around half an hour if it's designed right.
Can you elaborate on this, or give me a link to read more about it?
>>7929858
>But then I got curious, did the calculations and it's totally possible to fly on a car sized drone for around half an hour if it's designed right.
>Now I invest money in my own personal-aerial-vehicle projects.
I hope for you that they invest it to buy some officials, because nobody with a brain will permit flying cars.
>>7929858
I used to be anti-QM dude some years ago, but after going through physics 101 I realised that it's pretty darn neat concept, and the fact that it works in chemistry says that's it has at least applications to real world
>>7929858
>"EM drives are a meme" - /sci/, 2015
>>7930015
soz m8 my designs are proprietary, mainly because I need money but also because Im bitter because I always used to share my ideas with 4chan and they were always ignored or laughed at. So fuck you all im out for profit now.
>>7930020
The whole system is autonomous thats the point, a system that enables you to fly without being able to fly. If it was manual then it would just be a shitty helicopter.
I forgot to add I used to think spacex reuseable rockets were a joke too mainly because they kept blowing up but now ive seen it land i believe in it now.
>>7930022
Im guilty of that too, disbelieving a theory because I didnt understand it. Right now I dont believe in string theory, not because i dont understand it but because theres no experimental evidence.
>>7930138
>Im guilty of that too, disbelieving a theory because I didnt understand it.
There is nothing wrong with that, because it would be dishonest to believe something without understanding it.
>>7929858
>I still don't believe it's aliens but I now believe that there is something to it beyond merely hallucinating.
Since we're on the topic,I had a similar 'awakening' of sorts, not on UFOs but on bizarre phenomena. One phenomenon in particular that still troubles me is the cattle mutilation one, I remember reading the FBI reports, so many anomalies... fascinating stuff, you might want to check it out if you're interested.
>>7930857
>There is nothing wrong with that
Well, there is, if you consider believing in something without understanding it dishonest, then it should be the same for disbelieving.
>>7930041
They are.
>>7930874
Not if you define disbelief as the absence of belief
There's a difference between not believing something and believing that something isn't true
>>7930874
I think scientists should stop saying so and so is true just because and emphasize the experimental evidence because that is the only way a layman will be able to understand. Einstein said gravity bends light, I can clearly see that in lensed galaxies. String theory says there are 11 dimensions made of strings, where's the evidence???
