r/science2 Apr 28 '26

Sub announcement Chaos in the sub: For the 2nd time in a month, Reddit has deleted a moderator of the sub, a user who also was contributing a ton of articles to the sub.

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Chaos in the sub: For the 2nd time in a month, Reddit has deleted a moderator of the sub, a user who also was contributing a ton of articles to the sub.

This deletion also purged the user's articles from the sub, along with any conversations that were going on in those posts.

There was no warning by Reddit, just a permanent deletion with an opportunity to appeal but the appeal is never granted and nor even responded to.

I'm not sure if I can con her into becoming a moderator again, so as usual, we're upping our constant search for users -- and moderators.


r/science2 Mar 24 '25

We need YOUR help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/science2 3h ago

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r/science2 8h ago

Book Amazon.comTemperature Perturbations: A scientific analysis of the planet Mars and its influence on terrorism, rainfall, and stock market crashes

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This book is divided into three different academic articles that use credible scientific analysis to explain how the planet Mars exerts influence over terrestrial affairs through its gravitational pull. This gravitational effect influences temperature perturbations, which in turn influence climate and human behavior. This allows us to apply scientific facts to prediction models where the correlation is close to 100%. Consequently, we can conclude from the data that the correlation does in fact indicate causation.

The first two articles provide scientific reasoning and evidence that the data showing the correlation between the Gaza rocket attacks and stock market crashes with the configuration of the planet Mars relative to the Earth is evidence that there is a link between the physics involved at the astrophysical level, the meteorological outcome, and its effect on the biological processes of terrestrial organisms, which manifest certain behaviors.

The third article makes astute observations that postulate a link between the alignment of the Moon and Mars with the timing of extreme rainfall phenomena in the Middle East.

This book refers to studies from 2014 and 2024 to clarify the scientific basis of the research. Both studies link the movements of celestial objects to weather variations and climate. Other studies link weather variations to human behavior. All of them go back to the orbit of the planet Mars.


r/science2 17h ago

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r/science2 15h ago

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

How Nancy Grace Roman, the ‘Mother of Hubble,’ Became the Namesake of NASA’s New Telescope

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r/science2 1d ago

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r/science2 1d ago

“This explosion happened 50 million years ago… and we’re seeing it now”

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r/science2 2d ago

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Glyptodont | Glyptotherium deuterophractum lived between 60,000 and 17,000 years ago in South America. The animal was a type of glyptodont, heavily armored relatives of modern armadillos, some of which grew to the size of a small car.

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r/science2 1d ago

Magnetars: The Most Violent Objects in the Universe and Why One Nearby Could Threaten Earth

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r/science2 2d ago

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r/science2 2d ago

Groundbreaking Groundbreaking Paper! Dow Jones Performance: Mars Behind the Sun & Mars in Front of the Sun

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Groundbreaking Paper! Dow Jones Performance: Mars Behind the Sun & Mars in Front of the Sun

https://www.academia.edu/172661828/Dow_Jones_Performance_Mars_Behind_the_Sun_and_Mars_in_Front_of_the_Sun

Revisiting the Butterfly Effect

In 2024, after reading a Nature Communications paper linking gravitational forces between Earth and Mars to Earth’s climatology, I published a paper using the position of Mars and its impact on climate to infer a near term effect on human behavior and the stock market. I asserted that because of the relationship between climate and behavior, systems such as the stock market could easily be affected. The 2024 Nature Communications study posited Mars’s gravitational influence upon Earth’s eccentricity during orbital phases which pulls earth closer to the Sun, warming the planet. Even though this influence was confirmed to transpire over geological timescales—millions of years, it was enough to loosely associate it to my own thesis, which required establishing a Mars-Earth gravitational relationship that could be linked to human behavior in some way. Because the study posited that Mars influences Earth’ eccentricity, I was able to presume an effect on Earth’s axial tilt as well, since both are inextricably linked to the same Mars-Earth resonance. I made a large conceptual leap and used this to hypothesize butterfly effect—from astrophysics, to climate, to weather, and then to behavior which drives the stock market. A second study in 2025 conducted by Stephen Kane used computer simulations to link Mars gravitational force upon Earth to the Milankovch cycles. These still occur across geological timescales, but over shorter periods than the waxing and waning cycles established in the 2024 study. While neither study showed no near term relationship between Earth and Mars on Earth’s weather, I was still used the mainstream findings to justify a connection between the astrophysics of Mars and Earth to human behavior. The anchor is the gravitational link between Mars Earth at geological timescales with a hypothesis that near term effects could be established later.

I published two papers anchoring the 2024 study to my thesis. The first paper entitled “A 100% statistical correlation and scientific explanation for why the planet Mars can trigger stock market crashes” which was cited in the Prespacetime Journal, laid out the 25 major stock market crashes along with the position of Mars in relation to the Sun at the time they occurred. The paper showed that every single crash occurred when Mars was behind the Sun which in reference to the 2024 study would be when Mars’s vector would point along the line connecting Earth to Sun. I continued to assert the Mars-Earth gravitational relationship could happen over near term timescales even as the gravitational force between Mars and Sun at that distance is minute, especially considering other aspects that could affect the eccentricity and obliquity of Earth in the short term, ie tidal forces, solar elements, etc.


r/science2 3d ago

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