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Ideology is ideas you use as a reason for belief and decision-making regarding specific topics. Ex Politics, Religion, Science.

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Elon Musk has a reason with his ideas and logic for his beliefs that our entire existence is just a complicated coded simulation. His main idea of focus is that we are in a video game, and many video games, like The Sims, are just like our world. Every year the games get more and more realistic, and the rate we are moving wouldn't be able to differentiate between real and fake. Elon uses perfect ideology for decision-making on what he believes are existence is by using theories and predictions.

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Is the world around us real - or are we living in a simulation, like characters trapped inside some space alien's video game?

That sounds like a question you might hear at a midnight screening of "The Matrix," but lately it's become the subject of serious academic debate. High-profile proponents of what's known as the " simulation hypothesis" include SpaceX chief Elon Musk, who recently expounded on the idea during an interview for a popular podcast.

"If you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality," Musk said before concluding, "We're most likely in a simulation."

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees, giving "better than 50-50 odds" that the simulation hypothesis is correct. "I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none," he told NBC News MACH in an email.

Reality comes under attack

The current assault on reality began with a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom. In it, the University of Oxford philosopher laid down some blunt logic: If there are long-lived technological civilizations in the universe, and if they run computer simulations, there must be a huge number of simulated realities complete with artificial-intelligence inhabitants who may have no idea they're living inside a game - inhabitants like us, perhaps.

These beings might imagine themselves real but would have no physical form, existing only within the simulation.

If computer-loving aliens truly exist, Bostrum argued, "we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation." And then people like Tyson and Musk found their minds blown.

Now scientists are searching for ways to put the simulation hypothesis to the test. Bostrom is eager to see more concrete developments of his idea. Experiments that could distinguish physical reality from a simulation "are what would be needed for it to be a bona fide scientific assertion," he told MACH.

Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, is more expressive about what such experiments could mean. "If there were bugs in the program running our universe, like in the Matrix movies, those could clearly have observable effects," he says. "Just like God appearing in a thundercloud could be pretty good empirical evidence in favor of religion."

Looking for gaps in the sim

Any such bugs in our Matrix world would have to be extremely subtle, or else we would have noticed them by now. Silas Beane, a nuclear physicist at the University of Washington in Seattle, proposes that we may be able to ferret out previously overlooked flaws by uncovering the mathematical structure used to build our simulated reality.

He points out that scientists in his field use a lattice-like set of coordinates to simulate the behavior of subatomic particles. Maybe the aliens (or whoever built our simulation, if it exists) used that approach, too. If our reality is built on top of a lattice, there'd be a fundamental coarseness to it, since there could be no details in our mock-universe smaller than the resolution of the simulation.

Even if the resolution limit is too small for us to observe directly, Beane says, we may be able to detect it experimentally. In a paper he wrote with two colleagues, Beane proposes that a simulation lattice could affect the behavior of ultra-energetic particles known as cosmic rays, affecting their orientation and maximum intensity.

Instruments like the Telescope Array, a network of 500 detectors scattered across 300 square miles of Utah desert, watch for cosmic rays as they crash into Earth's atmosphere from deep space. The detectors have already discovered particles as much as 100 quintillion times as energetic as visible light. That seems like a great place to start hunting for bugs in any simulation.

It would be a delicate task: High-energy cosmic rays are rare, and the deviations from ordinary physical effects might not be obvious. But Beane and company are encouraged that making such a measurement is feasible, at least in principle. "There always remains the possibility for the simulated to discover the simulators," the authors write.

Is our world badly rendered?

Another way to sleuth for glitches in the simulation is by looking inward rather than outward. In a recently proposed test, former NASA engineer Thomas Campbell and his colleagues point out that human video game designers typically maximize the efficiency of their programming by generating only the parts of the virtual world that players can see. If our Matrix overlords are similarly focused on efficiency, they may be meticulous about simulating details while we're watching an event, but allow a looser style of simulation when they think nobody is looking.

Following that line of thought, Campbell is focusing on subtle quantum physics experiments, where gaps in the simulation might be most obvious. He has conceived several tabletop optics arrangements that would shoot a laser beam through an elaborate sequence of slits, mirrors and detectors. Photons of laser light would follow different paths contingent on whether they are behaving like waves or like particles, which in turn depends on the structure of the setup.

Or rather, it should depend only on the setup. If reality is rendered at the moment we are watching, Campbell theorizes, his experiment could yield results normally considered impossible, such as being able to predict whether an individual photon passes through or bounces back when it hits a half-reflective mirror. That outcome would "represent an unambiguous indicator that our reality must be simulated," he writes.

As a huge bonus, Campbell claims the experiment could also explain the weird way that events in quantum physics seem to be influenced by the observer: It may be a quirk of the simulation we live in, not a fundamental aspect of reality.

Marcus Noack, a computational physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab with a keen interest in the simulation hypothesis, sees problems with these attempts to outsmart the Matrix. For instance, Campbell assumes that a simulation would be for our benefit only, "but what if the simulator does not simulate us just for us, but rather to observe how everything plays out?" And Noack notes that Beane's approach would come up empty if the lattice of reality is too fine for us to detect - or if the wily simulators have built in systems to defeat any test we might run.

The bottom line, Noack says, is that it's impossible to test the simulation hypothesis as a whole. The best we can do is explore a "limited neighborhood" of notions about how the simulation might work, and hope that the designers are too lazy or too indifferent to prevent us from discovering their handiwork.

Simulations all the way down?

That assessment seems to combine the worst of both worlds: We don't know if we're living in a simulation, but merely knowing that we might be in a simulation seems pretty depressing. Tyson calls it "a creepy concept." Bostrom adds that it "seems to foster a sense of absolute dependency."

But there are also constructive ways to look at the simulation hypothesis. Aaronson sees it as a fresh way to contemplate "the ancient mysteries of where our universe comes from, who or what created it, and why."

Noack also finds it a fruitful thought problem about where human research might be headed. "I simulate many phenomena that represent only a tiny subset of all the physical things going on around us," he says. "I'm interested in the computational effort a world simulation would need, and the computer involved."

The rapid advance of AI research and computer modeling raises the possibility that one day we humans might create our own hyper-realistic simulations containing self-aware digital beings. That possibility is both inspiring and disconcerting. It also introduces a new set of brain-hurting questions. Would these simulations-within-a-simulation be the end? Or could our simulated beings keep going and create yet another layer of simulation, and so on?

"There could be an infinite stack of simulations if there were infinite serial computing power available at the bottom level and in each higher level," Bostrom says. Fortunately, in a finite universe things can never get quite that crazy, he says: "As far as we can tell, the serial computing power available to a simulator in our universe is finite, in which case we could only create finitely many levels of simulations."

Phew. So maybe that's one small consolation: We might be in a simulation, or a simulation in a simulation, but at least we can be pretty sure that it's not simulations all the way down.

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What is the simulation hypothesis? Why some think life is a simulated reality

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Is the world around us real - or are we living in a simulation, like characters trapped inside some space alien's video game? That sounds like a question you might hear at a midnight screening of "The Matrix," but lately it's become the subject of serious academic debate.

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Unexplained is the reason for events that cannot be described by facts or explanation, and reasons for the unknown remain a mystery.

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The article describes a theory called the multiverse that involves our universe may not be the only one. There may be infinite planets, galaxies, and universes with their new laws of physics. This means there are endless possibilities for everything since there is no limit. There is a loop because if that's the case, what caused it? This theory can be terrifying but exciting. It will always remain unknown and unexplained how the laws of physics could be different.

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Multiverse theory suggests that our universe, with all its hundreds of billions of galaxies and almost countless stars, spanning tens of billions of light-years, may not be the only one. Instead, there may be an entirely different universe, distantly separated from ours - and another, and another. Indeed, there may be an infinity of universes, all with their own laws of physics, their own collections of stars and galaxies (if stars and galaxies can exist in those universes), and maybe even their own intelligent civilizations.

It could be that our universe is just one member of a much grander, much larger multitude of universes: a multiverse.

Theoretical evidence of the multiverse

The concept of the multiverse arises in a few areas of physics (and philosophy), but the most prominent example comes from something called inflation theory. Inflation theory describes a hypothetical event that occurred when our universe was very young - less than a second old. In an incredibly brief amount of time, the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion, "inflating" to become many orders of magnitude larger than its previous size, according to .

Inflation of our universe is thought to have ended about 14 billion years ago, said Heling Deng, a cosmologist at Arizona State University and an expert in multiverse theory. "However, inflation does not end everywhere at the same time," Deng told Live Science in an email. "It is possible that as inflation ends in some region, it continues in others."

Thus, while inflation ended in our universe, there may have been other, much more distant regions where inflation continued - and continues even today. Individual universes can "pinch off" of larger inflating, expanding universes, creating an infinite sea of eternal inflation, filled with numerous individual universes.

In this eternal inflation scenario, each universe would emerge with its own laws of physics, its own collection of particles, its own arrangement of forces and its own values of fundamental constants. This might explain why our universe has the properties it does - particularly the properties that are hard to explain with fundamental physics, such as dark matter or the cosmological constant, Deng said.

"If there is a multiverse, then we would have random cosmological constants in different universes, and it is simply a coincidence that the one we have in our universe takes the value that we observed," he said.
Related: Cosmology: Revealing the story of the universe
The biggest piece of evidence for the multiverse is that life exists, particularly intelligent life capable of making cosmological observations. Certain aspects of our universe seem special and important for supporting life, such as the longevity of stars, the abundance of , the availability of light for photosynthesis and the stability of complex , said McCullen Sandora, an affiliate research scientist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. But "all these features are typically not the case if you get handed a random universe," Sandora told Live Science in an email. "The multiverse offers one explanation for why all these features are favorable in our universe, which is that other universes exist as well, but we observe this one because it's capable of supporting complex life," Sandora said.

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In other words, so many things had to line up just right in our universe that the existence of life seems improbable. And if there was only one universe, it likely shouldn't have life in it. But in a multiverse, there are enough "chances" for life to appear in at least one universe. But this theory is not especially compelling, so most scientists remain skeptical of the multiverse idea.

Physical evidence of the multiverse
Related: If we live in a multiverse, where are these worlds hiding?
Many scientists have tried to find more physical, hard evidence for the multiverse's existence. For example, if a neighboring universe happened to be close to ours long ago, it may have collided with our universe, creating a detectable imprint. That imprint could be in the form of distortions in the cosmic microwave background (the light left over from when the universe was a million times smaller than it is today) or in strange galaxy properties in the direction of the collision, according to the Early Universe blog published by University College London.But all of these types of searches have come up empty, so the multiverse remains hypothetical.

Deng is searching for evidence of the multiverse by looking for special kinds of black holes that could be artifacts of pieces of our universe that separated into their own universe via a process called quantum tunneling. If some regions of our universe separated this way, they would have left behind "bubbles" in our universe that would turn into these unique black holes, which may still exist today, according to Deng.

"The potential detection of these black holes can then point to the existence of a multiverse," Deng said.

Life in the multiverse

Perhaps the most mind-bending implication of the multiverse is the existence of doppelgängers. If there really are an infinity of universes but a finite number of ways to arrange particles in any individual universe, then the same patterns are bound to be repeated, eventually. That would mean that at some incredible (but finite!) distance, there would be an exact copy of you reading an exact copy of this article. And because there would be an infinite number of universes, there would be an infinite number of these exact scenarios all happening simultaneously, according to the Institute of Physics.

Related: What would humans know if they lived in a multiverse?

If this makes you feel a little uncomfortable, then perhaps it's reassuring to know that the multiverse has not been proven to exist ... yet.

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Do we live in a multiverse? Maybe. But probably not.

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Red herring uses false or irrelevant information to avoid the intended question.

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The press told Joe Biden to address the public on ways to prepare for a hurricane in 2021. He uses false information that is off-topic and irrelevant to how to prepare for a disaster. "A vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated now" -Joe Biden. News outlets say Biden's words were taken out of context for hurricane Ian, but it doesn't change the fact he told people vaccination will help prepare for a hurricane. This red flag is known as Red Herring.

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President Biden Receives a Briefing on How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Hurricane Preparedness

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Confirmation bias is using information and evidence that only supports your claim.

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In this debate, the debaters speak about the Evolution Theory and new evidence and only use information that supports their claims. A lot about the evolution theory has controversy and should've been answered with relevant information. The debaters should tell the viewers that parts of evolution still need to be found through scientific evidence; it seems they are saying things only to prove their point.

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What are some of the world's best debates about religion?

Here's a compilation of some of the best religious debates and conversions of all time. Dawkins, Dillahunty, Hitchens, Harris, and more.

Religious debates have been around for thousands of years. People want to know the answers to life's most complex and confusing questions. We've tried to collect a few of the best debates we've ever seen.

Many debates include some of our favorite figures: authors, atheists, agnostics, and scientists. And we've have written about a bunch of them. Learn more about Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris.

New debates are added all the time, so be sure to check back later for more.

Christopher Hitchens Hitchslaps Religion

Neil deGrasse Tyson with Neil Gaiman on Religion and Science, or God of the gaps

Humans have been believing in gods for tens of thousands of years. We've created over 2,500 different gods, granted many of them share quite a lot things. Most people, at least in the United States, only believe in 1 of those gods. That would naturally imply feeling "atheist" in regards to at least 2,499 other gods. And an "atheist" simply feels that way about all 2,500+ of them..

For so much of human history we've clustered ourselves into religious groups, choosing the one that feels right to us. But like it or not, atheism is on the rise... and rightfully so. Whether you want to call it that, or agnosticism, it's safe to say that a lot of people are giving up on God. In fact, a Pew Research study found people unaffiliated with any religion has risen 9% since 2009. People are losing interest in the fables of holy books, and instead choosing to prioritize things like fighting climate change, balancing work and life demands, daily learning and growing, and equality and justice for all people. Not to mention, it seems like every other day we hear about another scandal in the religious community. The general public is finally coming to the truth. Many of us have discovered that we were mislead, but now we can begin to take real control over our lives, actions, and futures. We no longer have to live under the threat of going to heaven or hell. Nor do we have to spend out precious lives worshiping someone who has never presented even a shred of evidence for his existence. Albeit, atheism will only rise in popularity with the expansion of global internet and other technological advancements. Religion surely must fade away into a thing of the past; a time when we latched on to answers without sufficient evidence.

Listen to George Carlin explain the invisible man. He who threatens you with eternal torture and damnation! ...But he loves you.

Sure enough, another Pew Research Center study from 2014 confirmed that Americans are becoming less religious. Religious organizations, and their founders are just losing interest.

Belief in God - The United States

Back in 2007, more than 70% of Americans were confident that God exists. Let that sink in... Yet, by 2014 the number has plummeted nearly ten percent. But let's get real, these numbers are still absurdly high. We're talking about a majority of Americans confident in something that that nobody has ever been able to prove. Can you think of another thing in society that so many people believe to be true, irrespective of the lacking evidence? There have been thousands of discussions about the proof for the existence of God, and nobody has made a case that fundamentally differs from the requirement of faith based belief.

Nearly 1 in 10 Americans say they do not believe in God. In 2007 the number was half that. So things are trending in the right direction, but it needs to happen faster, exponentially faster.

But why do we believe? Are we on a path towards a more skeptical society?

Clearly we came about somehow, so it's logical to ask why we are here. For much of our history, people have dedicated their lives seeking to answer this question, and still no one has been able to definitively prove it. But we're hungry to know about the origins of the universe. We want to know what happens after death, and what happened in the beginning.

Religion attempts to provide some answers to our questions about life. It's not hard to guess an indiviual's religion based on where they were born and what socio-economic status they came from. For examlpe, if you happened to be raised in the Middle East, you're likely be a Muslim. If you were born in Brazil, your would likely be Roman Catholic. Ironically, each religious group is equally confident in their beliefs and the falsehood of the others. But these religions try to offer answers at the expense of science and analysis. The Quran famously states that Muhammad flew to heaven on a winged horse. Jesus was said to have walked on water, and risen from the dead. Claims as significant as extraordinary as these should require extraordinary evidence to support them. Yet no religions are able to truly prove their correctness. This is clearly demonstrated by the overall decline of organized religion in the Wester world.

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Best Religious Debates and Discussions of All Time

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Here's a compilation of some of the best religious debates and conversions of all time. Dawkins, Dillahunty, Hitchens, Harris, and more. Religious debates have been around for thousands of years. People want to know the answers to life's most complex and confusing questions. We've tried to collect a few of the best debates we've ever seen.

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Patternicity is finding patterns in objects, images, or videos that may not be attended to look the way you imagined.

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In this image, without connecting to the famous gorilla Harambe, a person would see this as a regular Cheeto and eat it. In this case, this Cheeto is being sold for $100k on eBay because of the fame the gorilla obtained.

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A Cheetos corn snack resembling Harambe the Gorilla just sold on eBay for $99,900.

The listing attracted 132 bids before closing at 3:45 a.m. on Feb. 7. The item was sold from Burbank, California, and even came with free standard shipping, according to the eBay listing.

The seller, "valuestampsinc," listed the item as "Gorilla Hot Cheetos - RARE - One of a Kind Cheetos - Harambe Gorilla," juxtaposing it with a side photo of the gorilla.

In a phone call, eBay confirmed to CNBC the item was valid and available for purchase, but has not yet returned a request for comment on the specific listing. Wired noted in 2015 that trolls tend to inflate the bids on "rare" and collectible items, making large offers that inevitably fall through. Oftentimes, the only consequence for not fulfilling a bid is a strike against the seller's account.

Seeing resemblances in food is not a new phenomenon. In 2014, the BBC explained why people see faces in everything from food to cars, and how it may have developed because of our dependence on socialization.

Harambe the Gorilla was a 400-pound silverback fatally shot by a zookeeper after a human child entered his enclosure. His shooting went viral on the internet, creating several memes and attracting worldwide attention. Harambe was housed in the Cincinnati Zoo.

An 8.3-ounce bag of Cheetos Crunchy Flamin' Hot retails for $2.50 at Target.

WATCH: This fashion trend for dogs is big business

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Harambe-shaped Cheeto sold for almost $100,000

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A Cheetos corn snack resembling Harambe the Gorilla just sold on eBay for $99,900. The listing attracted 132 bids before closing at 3:45 a.m. on Feb. 7. The item was sold from Burbank, California, and even came with free standard shipping, according to the eBay listing.

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Perception and observation are our five senses, and we can consider them accurate when explaining events or objects we see. The most common one that may result in false claims is our sense of vision.

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Many Canadians witness UFOs up to 3 times a day and report them as extraterrestrial though the government says there is no proof. Scientific observation needs to be done to explain what these individuals are seeing. This could be just a meteor shower.

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Acclaimed Canadian ufologist Christopher Rutkowski can be best described as Canada's Fox Mulder.

He recently travelled to Duncan, B.C., a small town on Vancouver Island that was home to Granger Taylor, whose story is told in CBC Docs POV documentary, . Taylor, who became obsessed with space travel, left a note telling his family he could communicate with extraterrestrials and was going on an interstellar journey - and then vanished.

But Taylor wasn't only one who reported a strange encounter in Duncan. Lisa Nydahl was a teenager in 1980 when she saw a boomerang-shaped object in the sky over the town, gliding toward the mountains. "It just did a 90-degree turn and went straight up and just disappeared," she recalls. "It was unlike anything I'd ever seen."

Rutkowski says that UFO sightings in Canada are more common than we think. "There are about 1,000 UFO reports filed in Canada every year, and the number remains high."

Ufology Research, an organization Rutkowski belongs to, has collected and analyzed Canadian UFO report data since 1989. Their 2017 survey showed that a total of 1,101 sightings were reported across the country, at a rate of roughly three per day - the fifth highest number since the group began collecting data in 1989.

The survey also showed that there was an average of two witnesses per UFO sighting and that the sightings lasted about 15 minutes each. Many witnesses were police officers, pilots and other people with keen observational skills.

Most sighting reports in 2017 came from Quebec (518) and Ontario (241), with B.C. coming in third (128). Out of the major metropolitan areas the country, Montreal and Toronto topped the list.

In its final report, Ufology Research broke down cases by the number of witnesses, the level of "strangeness" (an alien encounter being more unusual than flashing lights, for example), the reliability of the sighting and its duration. They also compared the shape of the objects.

The report notes that while an increasing number of cellphones, dashcams and traffic cameras means that reported sightings are more frequently accompanied by a photo or video, these visuals are often of poor quality and less useful to researchers. What's more, the majority of sightings can be explained as aircraft and other astronomical objects.

Still, about eight per cent of all UFO reports in 2017 remain unexplained - but this doesn't mean that they are proof of alien visitation.

"There's no incontrovertible evidence that aliens are visiting us, although it's a wonderful theory," Rutkowski told The Canadian Press, but adds that "there is a real phenomenon [that] I think is worth scientific study."

Here are a few of Canada's most famous UFO sightings:

Falcon Lake, Manitoba

In May 1967, Stefan Michalak reported seeing two flying saucers near Falcon Lake. He claimed that one of the aircraft hovered only 45 metres away from him, landed and, as he approached, emitted a beam of light that knocked him to the ground as it lifted off.

Michalak said that he became ill in the following weeks, and a photograph of his chest eight months later showed burn marks in a pattern of dots. The incident was commemorated by a glow-in-the-dark coin released by the Canadian Mint in 2018.

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

During the same year as the Falcon Lake sighting, people reported that the night skies over Shag Harbour were glowing with four lights that flashed off and on before crashing into the harbour. Eyewitnesses claimed they watched as a large, orange-glowing object sank into the water.

The RCMP, thinking a plane had crashed, organized a rescue effort, but were unable to recover an object. Divers searched the sea floor but also came up empty. Since no planes were reported missing, the case was classified as a UFO sighting. To this day, Shag Harbour holds an annual festival dedicated to the strange incident.

Marieville, Quebec

In 1989, several people in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir reported being awakened in the middle of the night by a noise that sounded similar to an electric generator. Witnesses also reported seeing an intense blue light shining outside their windows.

Two days later, a perfect circle, about 20 metres in diameter, was found outside of the home of one of the witnesses. The RCMP were called to investigate, but the source of the lights and strange markings remains unknown.

If you've spotted a UFO, here's how to report it a sighting to Ufology Research.

Watch on CBC Docs POV.

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Canadians report seeing UFOs in the sky at a rate of 3 times a day

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Acclaimed Canadian ufologist Christopher Rutkowski can be best described as Canada's Fox Mulder. He recently travelled to Duncan, B.C., a small town on Vancouver Island that was home to Granger Taylor, whose story is told in CBC Docs POV documentary, .

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Agenticity is a reason to believe something that doesn't exist and give it meaning.

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People can make lots of money and get famous using agenticity to trick the viewer. This can be seen in youtube videos and social media pictures. Many claim to capture certain paranormal events on tape, like skinwalkers, demons, ghosts, and aliens. This can generate millions of views and discussions, causing controversy on whether it's real. They may also describe how to feel to the viewers to give them a reason to believe that they have been emotionally affected. Professionally done, editors do these.

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Top 10 Times Ghosts Were Actually Caught On Camera

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Cause and correlation are when there is a specific correlation due to causation, but this is not true for all correlations. For example, having sunlight will give you vitamin D, but too much sun exposure over the years can cause cancer. The cause is the same, but correlations can be different.

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Many people with no scientific evidence claim that covid vaccines alter your DNA and cause cancer, so the pharmaceutical companies can profit. This claim is false. There is no vaccine shown with scientific evidence that proves this claim right. There is no cause for the correlation to occur in any way. They have confirmed that vaccines are used to prevent certain illnesses and viruses. This will cause fear in many people, hesitant to get shots, as we've seen with covid, which has resulted in many preventable casualties.

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Myth: The mRNA vaccines change your DNA and could cause cancer.

Truth: None of the vaccines interact with or alter your DNA in any way, and therefore cannot cause cancer.

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is not the same as DNA and cannot be combined with DNA to change your genetic code. Here's now mRNA vaccines actually work:

The mRNA vaccines use a tiny piece of the coronavirus' genetic code to teach your immune system how to make a protein that will trigger an immune response if you get infected. The mRNA is fragile, so after it delivers the instructions to your cells, it breaks down and disappears from the body (in about 72 hours). The mRNA never even goes into the nucleus of the cell - the part that contains your DNA.

Therefore, there is no truth to the myth that somehow the mRNA vaccine could inactivate the genes that suppress tumors.

Myth: If I'm not at risk for severe COVID-19 complications, I don't need the vaccine.

Truth: Healthy people can develop severe COVID-19 infection. Even though they are at a lower risk for severe COVID-19 complications, they can contract and spread the virus. Getting vaccinated protects you as well as your community.

Myth: The vaccines were developed too quickly. We can't be sure they are safe.

Truth: COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly compared with earlier vaccines because scientists, doctors, and government agencies all over the world invested massive resources to cut red tape and publish results as soon as they were available.

As of December 9, 2021, more than 200 million Americans have been fully vaccinated and the CDC continues to track all adverse reactions.

Myth: Getting immunity naturally is safer than getting it from a vaccine.

Truth: The amount of natural immunity a person gets after an infection varies from person to person. Early evidence suggests that natural immunity may not last very long, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Developing immunity from the vaccine is less risky than developing immunity naturally because there's no way to predict the severity of your symptoms if you get COVID-19.

We expect that when 70% of the population has either received the vaccine or been infected, we will reach what is called "herd immunity," meaning the chances of the virus still circulating are very low. Waiting until this number is reached naturally - without vaccinating the public - will keep COVID-19 around for much longer.

Myth: Getting vaccinated will make me sick.

Truth: The vaccine does not contain any live or inactive portion of the COVID-19 virus. It will not cause you to test positive on a test that looks for active COVID-19 infection. You may experience mild to moderate side effects, including pain at the injection site, fatigue (feeling tired), headache, and muscle pain. Not everyone gets side effects. But if you do, they are normal and a sign your body is building up its defenses against the virus.

Myth: The vaccines aren't safe for people who are pregnant or are trying to get pregnant.

Truth: There is strong evidence that the vaccines are safe and effective for pregnant women. An August 2021 study showed no increased risk for miscarriage for people who received the mRNA vaccine during the first 20 weeks of gestation.

A study in June 2021 in the New England Journal of Medicine found no safety concerns among more than 35,000 pregnant people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty®) or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement emphasizing that "all eligible persons [...] including pregnant and lactating individuals, receive a COVID-19 vaccine or vaccine series." The Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine also encourages people who are pregnant or breastfeeding to get vaccinated.

Myth: The death toll from COVID-19 is exaggerated. It includes people who were already sick with other conditions.

Truth: In a report from the CDC on deaths due to COVID-19, researchers found COVID-19 can directly and indirectly lead to mortality. People with underlying conditions like diabetes or obesity are at higher risk for contracting COVID-19 than those without preexisting conditions. It is true that a person's preexisting condition may have contributed to their death from COVID-19. However, if the person had not contracted the virus, it is unlikely their preexisting condition would have led to their death. The death toll from COVID-19, in fact, is likely higher than what current numbers indicate. People who die from COVID-19 without being tested, for example, may not be included in current counts.
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Fact Check: 7 Persistent Myths about COVID-19 Vaccines

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Truth: None of the vaccines interact with or alter your DNA in any way, and therefore cannot cause cancer. Messenger RNA (mRNA) is not the same as DNA and cannot be combined with DNA to change your genetic code.

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Appealing to authority is viewing and believing one's claims just because of those in charge.

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This article shows the highest-rated athletes and their sponsors to red bull. They make commercials claiming after consuming these drinks; they perform much better. No sports athlete ever consumes these drinks due to high sugar levels. When fans see their favourite sports stars consume these, they feel inspired and believe they can be like them after drinking. This is just an easy marketing strategy.

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Red Bull is everywhere. From Austria to New York, the energy drink brand is taking up shelf space at both your local convenience store and the world of sport.

The Austrian-based brand hosts an impressive roster of world-renowned athletes from all walks of sport and every corner of the globe. Known for the love of action and adventure, Red Bull athletes span all disciples from windsurfing and skydiving to more traditional sports. While they are synonymous with extreme sports like BMX, motocross, and skydiving, the endorsement marketing roster does not lack for star power. The brand has forged relationships with several of the most marketable athletes in soccer (even going as far as owning an MLS team, the New York Red Bulls and teams in Salzburg, Leipzig, São Paulo), basketball, and baseball.

Below, we break down the most marketable among the brand's endorsement roster: the most influential Red Bull sponsored athletes by social media following.

Instagram Following: 226,000

Facebook Following: 45,000

Twitter Following: 87,000

Total Following: 358,000

The 2016 WNBA Rookie of the Year leverages Red Bull to highlight her professional story in order to motivate future athletes.

Facebook Following: 83,000

Instagram Following: 383,000

Twitter Following: 91,000

Total Following: 557,000

Often described as the best lacrosse player ever, the leader of the Premier Lacrosse League has worked hand-in-hand with Red Bull to document his workouts and fitness regiment in a series of vlogs.

Instagram Following: 591,000

Facebook Following: 149,000

Twitter Following: 102,000

Total Following: 842,000

Barrett sat down with Red Bull to shed light on what being a part of the All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby union team, is all about. Plus, it looks like he has an interesting project in the works.

Instagram Following: 1.2 million

Facebook Following: 280,000

Twitter Following: 214,000

Total Following: 1.6 million

The newly-minted U.S. Open champ currently hosts his own tennis tournament in his native Austria. While he earns his living on the tennis court, he's another Red Bull athlete who has engaged in race track activations with the brand.

Instagram Following: 1 million

Facebook Following: 600,000

Twitter Following: 700,000

Total Following: 1.9 million

Bryant is a consistent top-performer on the diamond, but he doesn't stop there. His endorsement partnership with Red Bull has led Bryant to belt homers into the Chicago River, get pranked by Greg Maddux, swim with sharks, field 'literal' flaming fastballs, roam anonymously through Austria dressed in lederhosen, and become the first United States athlete to be featured in a Red Bull cartoon. This relationship has fostered some of the most unique activations in the athlete sponsorship and endorsement industry.

Instagram Following: 3.6 million

Facebook Following: 999,000

Twitter Following: 1.3 million

Total Following: 5.9 million

In 2016, at the age of 18, Verstappen joined Red Bull Racing and hasn't looked back. You can find the Formula One driver repping Red Bull gear and driving his branded car on race days.

Instagram Following: 4.3 million

Facebook Following: 1.6 million

Twitter Following: 67,000

Total Following: 5.9 million

The inaugural Red Bull Street Style winner back in 2008, Garnier has continued to represent as a Red Bull athlete in the annual competition. With a skillset tailor-made for social media, Garnier has amassed over ten million total followers, placing him in elite company in sports.

Instagram Following: 4.9 million

Facebook Following: 2.7 million

Twitter Following: 1.5 million

Total Following: 9.1 million

One of the world's premier fullbacks at the age of 21, Alexander-Arnold became a Red Bull athlete last year and has worked with the energy drink brand to share his footballing journey on his way to stardom.

Instagram Following: 3.9 million

Facebook Following: 6.1 million

Twitter Following: 832,000

Total Following: 10.8 million

The first-ever X Games winner can be spotted repping his Red Bull gear during competition and branding his skateboarding course with the energy drink. Oh yeah, he also rode through the Red Bull office on a motorcycle.

4. Blake Griffin | NBA

Instagram Following: 3.7 million

Facebook Following: 4 million

Twitter Following: 4.3 million

Total Following: 12.1 million

When you dunk over a Kia, you're going to stand out.

The Red Bull athlete has no problem highlighting his personality and getting creative. The 2011 Slam Dunk Contest winner frequently puts his comical side to good use. In 2017, Griffin put on his first comedy benefit. With proceeds going to the Team Griffin Foundation, guests were treated to an entertaining night with jokes flying from a whos-who of comedians including Whitney Cummings, Norm Macdonald, and Griffin himself.

Instagram Following: 7 million

Facebook Following: 4.5 million

Twitter Following:4.5 million

Total Following: 16 million

The global cricket superstar highlights his involvement within Red Bull Campus Cricket. One of the most followed athletes on social media, the cricketer consistently publishes content created alongside Red Bull.

Instagram Following: 14.7 million

Twitter Following: 6.4 million

Facebook Following: 600,000

Total Following: 21.7 million

Tyler Blevins, known to the gaming universe as "Ninja", has risen to unparalleled global popularity since he began streaming full time in 2011. In addition to his nearly 22 million followers across the big three social platforms, he also boasts an additional 4.3 million followers on TikTok, 15.8 million on Twitch, and a staggering 24.1 million on YouTube!

Adorning his signature Red Bull bandanna, Ninja further collaborated as Red Bull to build the ultimate stream room that would make and video gamer jealous. And with a dedicated following of nearly 40 million subscribers across YouTube and Twitch, fans will get used to the luxury gamer cave.

Instagram Following: 142 million

Facebook Following: 64.8 million

Twitter Following: 49.6 million

Total Following: 256.4 million

The PSG and Brazil National Team footballer is a global superstar in the prime of his career. The Champions League Finalist employs that same star power into Red Bull Neymar Jr's Five. A five-a-side tournament pitting the world's best street footballers against another, the competition drew over 400,000 signups in 2019.

With the tournament, now in its fifth edition, being canceled in 2020 due to Covid Neymar is s till searching for the seven best amateur footballers to take on him and his mates in a secret match in December. Fans have till September 30th to upload a:60 video to Instagram displaying their skills (while tagging @redbullneymarjrsfive and using the hashtag #outplaythemall).

Red Bull Athlete Endorsers

The above Red Bull athletes combine for nearly 343 million followers across all social media platforms. When you rent such mental real estate, you are bound to make your mark. Sponsorship opportunities with the global brand have simultaneously elevated the reach of an athlete's personality while showcasing that the energy drink can become the market leader for all of life's adventures.

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Most Influential Red Bull Sponsored Athletes on Social - Opendorse

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Red Bull is everywhere. From Austria to New York, the energy drink brand is taking up shelf space at both your local convenience store and the world of sport. The Austrian-based brand hosts an impressive roster of world-renowned athletes from all walks of sport and every corner of the globe.

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Define Problem:
The problem is Elon Musk claims there is a high likelihood that we live in a simulation like a video game.

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The pictures on the website demonstrate life on earth as a blueprint and how easy it would be to construct a programmed reality. The arguments for living in a simulation are firm and more research is being done on subatomic particles. Scientists say if we find future life and they develop simulations like us in terms of games, the likelihood increases even more. Musk claims that games will be indistinguishable from our reality in the near future. So how do we know if we are not living in one now?

Evaluate Evidence:
The source is very credible. It shows proof of quotes and texts said by scientists and Elon. There is slight proof that we are living in a simulation because we make games that look very close to our life, and it seems more accurate every year. If we find life and they do the exact thing, there could be millions of simulated realities. The results can be reproduced. We can make video games and try to code them like our daily routines and see how real they will become. AI and computer research will keep increasing the likelihood of a coded reality. The scientific method is being applied to what we know so far, which is subatomic particles, AI technology, and aliens who possibly could be skeptical about simulations. We cant conclude a true or false statement because there isn't a definitive answer.

Recognize Assumptions:
Most people believe we came here by a higher being or got here through the big bang. It still doesn't answer the question of what started it all.

Synthesize Evidence:
The true nature of it is that we don't know much about anything when it comes to how we got here. Modern technology will not answer questions that date back millions of years. Some will be answered, but some are still missing. We still don't know what was before the big bang or everything about evolution. Assumptions and critical thinking is applied to questions that cannot be answered to find the best solution.

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In conclusion, more scientific evidence is needed to conclude how life formed or if this is just a highly coded video game made by aliens. There is no definitive answer to if life is a game or our we are the only ones here. Both sound very scary, but we may be the only answers.