It’s deep frost on all the roofs here, the temperature is definitely below zero. However, the weather app on my computer shows 4°C. I looked at other sources – yup, they show 4°. I already noticed a pattern there; they always show at least 2° more than the sensor in my car, which is within 0.5° from the sensors reporting the condition on the road, so I know it’s accurate. But, how is that possible? Shouldn’t the meteorologists have the most accurate sensors? They should, normally. However, in the recent decades in the West, this is not how it works.
How it works is that the “higher ups”, the ones holding the wallet from which the scientists are paid, decided that we’re having a global warming, and that’s the scientific truth. Since the scientific truth is already known and should not be disputed, all the measurements should reflect it and show that the global temperatures are indeed rising. The countries and stations that don’t show accurate measurements will have their funding removed. So, we now live in a world where scientific measurements are accurate if they align with politics, and not the physical reality, and political accuracy is rewarded with funds, so that the databases can be filled with politically accurate temperature readings, and those who dare to measure the actual physical reality will be perceived as wildly inaccurate compared to the adjacent measurement spots, and the heads of departments will get demoted and their funding removed.
One will ask how is it possible to spoof temperature readings, and I’ll just laugh. I don’t think they even use thermometers anymore, I think they just use some infrared satellite map and the computer reads out the values based on what somebody told it to read out. Also, all the scientists know what to say in the media when asked about anything. It’s like that joke about the Sunday School, where a nun made a small quiz, and the answer to all four question was Jesus, and she then decided to cheer the kids up a bit and asked “What is it that lives in the trees, has a fuzzy tail and gathers nuts for the winter?” One kid answered “I know the correct answer is Jesus, but to me it sounds a lot like a squirrel.”
The scientists know the correct answer to every question is global warming. No amount of walnuts in a hole in the tree will change this truth, because they know who holds the wallet. They are just like a whore telling her customer he has the biggest cock she ever saw, because a happy customer returns and pays extra.
Not directly related, but related to sensors.
Recently I had most strange “glitch in the matrix”.
I was driving to some destination using mobile navigation, Google’s I think.
When I was approaching a village, GPS speed suddenly started reporting some nonsense value like 4km/h, while I was driving 90km/h and started to slow down as I approached village.
Well, GPS is acting up, l thought, probably loosing signal for a moment.
However, as I got closer to the village, there was that road sign that measures and displays speed using radar – and this is where shocking part comes – it was also showing 4km/h and I was driving around 60kmh at that point.
As I passed the sign, GPS started reporting correct values again.
I mean, what are the chances that two completely different and separate technologies glitch at the same time in exactly the same way?
Only if the radar interferes with the GPS, causing both to malfunction, but that doesn't sound all that likely either.
If there was some radar operating on the L band (low GHz range), it could have been interfering with both. Also, GPS jammers exist.
Yea, but if that would be the case, then such interference would be expected more often, since I use GPS navigation quite a lot (and would happen to other people as well) but this never happened before or after, nor I ever heard anyone mentioning such a thing.
Anyway, no idea, it was just super weird.
It's not all that surprising to me, because complicated technology is expected to occasionally malfunction, and it's a lesser miracle that it works as often as it does. It's enough to observe how the bluetooth earphones and phones/computers glitch in various combinations and permutations, for it to become clear that this stuff is just buggy as hell.
Well yeah, that was my point – interference and technological issues such as BT earphones are very common, almost daily.
GPS signal is (almost) everywhere and there are thousands of these road radars with millions of cars driving past them, many of them using GPS navigation – statistically, I would expect significantly more malfunctions then I observed.
Well, who knows, perhaps it was rare, freak, neutrino-like event 🙂
Or someone in the vicinity turned on something that interfered with everything in the GHz scale of things, at least very locally.