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There are competing theories about the Moon illusion (the perception of the Moon being larger when it's close to the horizon). From the NASA website, "Why Does the Moon Look Larger at the Horizon? We Asked a NASA Scientist:", 12 February 2015...

Yet another skeptic explaining away clear photographic evidence that giants are menacing the good people of smalltown America... :)

Excellent points. IF the new footage is real, as in it's a dry run, then I would imagine the suit had more detail. We get a glimpse of the face in it: It also suggests Patterson was intent on a scene where Bigfoot looks back at the camera, so...

That sounds exactly like what believers always say when someone replicates a fake UFO video: "It's not exactly the same. The details differ." Sure they do. Recreating something exactly is obviously way more difficult than creating the hoax in the...

There are competing theories about the Moon illusion (the perception of the Moon being larger when it's close to the horizon). From the NASA website, "Why Does the Moon Look Larger at the Horizon? We Asked a NASA Scientist:", 12 February 2015...

I would not be surprised if somebody recreated this illusion with cars of different sizes, arranged so that forced perspective makes them all the same size in the picture, so you would have cars that LOOK difeerent sizes, but measured on the...

I would not be surprised if somebody recreated this illusion with cars of different sizes, arranged so that forced perspective makes them all the same size in the picture, so you would have cars that LOOK difeerent sizes, but measured on the...

I would not be surprised if somebody recreated this illusion with cars of different sizes, arranged so that forced perspective makes them all the same size in the picture, so you would have cars that LOOK difeerent sizes, but measured on the...

Excellent points. IF the new footage is real, as in it's a dry run, then I would imagine the suit had more detail. We get a glimpse of the face in it: It also suggests Patterson was intent on a scene where Bigfoot looks back at the camera, so...

I'd like to add to this that, as I believe we all know, a large majority of Americans love firearms, and if they trained on rifles with scopes attached, they are fully aware of how to use mil-dots. The basics are: if you know the rough size of...

Thanks for bringing this thread back to the topic of Rare Things That Have Been Documented Much Better Than UFOs ;)

replace "lower in the field of view" with "closer to the horizon" and replace "smaller" with "larger", please

Very first footage of earths crust moving during an earthquake in myanmar Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/n5gMOfdGXkI?is=n9pTrZRDHE9qDZQ-

But as @Mendel says, it shows how unreliable estimates of size are when we are dealing with objects at unknown distances. It also (to me at least) clearly shows that the cause of the “Moon illusion” is simply the Ponzo illusion and not any of the...

It's kind of Meldrum marking his own homework. Maybe the walk the dancers or athletes were trying to replicate was the walk of a guy in a padded ape suit. I'm guessing we don't have any objective idea of how good the demonstrators were at...