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Mendel replied to the thread Optical illusions.That's the point, isn't it? We have 3 identical 2D cars; the exact same size, as your yellow lines show. Now depending on whether we think the car is close or far away, the car appears to be small or big. Some UFO that appears to be big and far... -
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I checked you assertion that the arms in the above picture are not unnaturally long. In the picture the fists of the creature look to reach a little below the hip. Checking with a normotypical H. sapiens sapiens (myself), the fists extend... -
AI checked you assertion that the arms in the above picture are not unnaturally long. In the picture the fists of the creature look to reach a little below the hip. Checking with a normotypical H. sapiens sapiens (myself), the fists extend...
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AAndreas replied to the thread Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax?.Yeah, the whole "long arms" claim is kinda weird. And it's obviously rather difficult to determine the exact positions of different joints in a blurry image of a man in a padded suit covered in thick fur. But I see no reason to believe the...
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Mauro replied to the thread Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax?.I checked you assertion that the arms in the above picture are not unnaturally long. In the picture the fists of the creature look to reach a little below the hip. Checking with a normotypical H. sapiens sapiens (myself), the fists extend... -
I had never really taken a close look at the 1967 PG film before. Sure, I'd seen it numerous times, but I'd never bothered to properly analyze what I was looking at. (Frankly, I've never been that interested in Bigfoot.) As a result, my...
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Oh, no! No-one told me the *illusions* would be *misleading* - thanks for warning me, I shall now ignore this thread forthwith. -
AIndeed, When discussing the film online with BFBs (Big Foot Believers) I've often tried to "soften" my presentation by admitting that things that I see when looking at the film (most notably the saggy-britches effect in the sitting down area!)...
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AAndreas replied to the thread Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film is a hoax?.This is extremely unscientific, but I decided to play around a bit in Photoshop. I tried adjusting the color settings to give the horseman a more realistic skin tone. Then I applied the same settings to a screenshot of the foliage. Here's the...
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This may be useful when witnesses see a UFO "the size of a football field" again, demonstrating that our perception of size depends on our perception of distance, -
The Ponzo illusion is one of the most powerful illusions. Yes, all three car images are identical in size. (Source)
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Mauro replied to the thread Balloons, how many are there?.Fermi was rather famous for having a knack in finding approximate solutions with few data. Iirc he calculated the yield of the first atomic bomb by dropping pieces of paper and seeing how they moved when the shock wave came (not that I checked...
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Mick West replied to the thread Feature Request Multiple independent star tracking sections.You can set a single one with In-Out points. And we do have timeline markers (right-click on the timeline). I could probably combine them into a multi-segment analysis. Do you have a good example file? -
OOnyx replied to the thread Donald Trump's Health.It does sometimes feel like Trump will (or should) have some kind of extreme emotional outburst during one of his on-air appearances as his condition worsens; not just saying something horrible to someone, but physically assaulting someone, or...
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FatPhil replied to the thread ICEYE-X36 and the COSMOS 2612 interception.Someone's stirring the pot: Putin calls Musk “truly brilliant,” says Russia coordinates satellite operations in orbit with him Vladimir Putin said that Russia maintains contact with SpaceX head Elon Musk and other American partners on issues of...
