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Re:Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossib... by batbomb on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:10PM (#11538957)
> That's what it's like when a phenomenon is near the noise threshold.

That's not really noise level, that's just unknown systematic errors.

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Re:Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossib... by readams on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:14PM (#11539184)
he just means here are all kinds of piddly effects that will throw it off. If you switch the thing on and you get a huge effect size with high signal/noise you don't need to worry about stuff like who is standing near the tank other than to worry that they're being irradiated with fast neutrons.
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