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Why is everything surrounding this discovery seem so amateur? From the initial paper being so flimsy to all the "leaked" videos looking like it was taken by a monkey trying to learn how to video tape for the first time.

Like, is it that difficult to try to get a decent video of something that is life changing?

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Yes. The intersection of people who have been lucky enough to make a working sample and people who have decent video equipment has no reason to be other than an empty set.

Everybody has a smartphone these days. I’m not asking for a professional production.

Yeah it’s hard for me to take any of this at face value given how absolutely janky the evidence is thus far. I’m waiting for some non-potato cam footage with a human saying “hey watch this superconductor footage, this is what we did to make the material”

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