Vimeo description:
Atmospheric refraction plays with the light of any object near the horizon. Here stars, startrails and the sun, filmed in timelapse photography from two major observatories in Chile, display immense distortion above inversion layers in the outskirts of the Atacama desert, Chile. The moon scene is filmed near Boston at the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. The mirage is an optical phenomenon in which light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere and produce distorted or multiple images of the object.

https://www.metabunk.org/floating-cities-are-generally-not-fata-morgana-mirages.t6922/page-2

I don't understand what happened here. I feel like the media response to this obvious, obvious fake must have been the mirage.

i believe it's a mirage known as photoshop.

It's no mirage its Columbia! Father Comstock has arrived, all be it late, to punish them for the Boxer Rebellion.

Long live Father Comstock!

:-P

The phenomena is caused by a mirage known as Fata Morgana.

Still cool. Bet it freaked a lot of people out.

F16? F18? Mirages? but when it shows a guy flipping switches in what I have to guess is the cockpit of an Airplane. (.30)The Labels are in russian.... o.0

Your examples are flawed.

Place a rose-tinted glass in front of someone, and they would think you've placed a rose-tinted glass in front of them. The would expect the image transmitted by the glass to be rose-tinted as well.

Place a white sheet in front of them, and they would think you've placed a white sheet in front of them. They would expect to see a white sheet.

Place a clear object, such as a drinking glass, in front of them, they would think you've placed a drinking glass in front of them. They would expect to see through it, maybe expecting a perfect image, maybe a distorted one.

Fill that glass with water, and they do NOT expect to see a reversed image. It's an illusion. The arrows are not faced right, they are faced left, but they SEEM to be facing right.

By your yardstick, a mirage, the most common form of illusion, isn't.

Hes not wrong about the price of water, just wrong about the profit of it.

As far as I've seen living in the Los Angeles area, water conservation is hardly something noticed. Driving up from southern to northern California, there are signs along the I-5 of farmers complaining about the "Congress created dustbowl" implying water gouging that has to be blamed on a person or group. In reality, there's only so much water to go around and more people are around than 20 years ago. The culture here is pretty wasteful compared to other places in the world. Been to Australia once long ago, the most amazing thing I remember was the half flush toilets. It was symbolic of their much higher water conservation standards.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43521258/ns/us_news-environment/t/calif-dust-bowl-real-danger-or-mirage/#.Ucgof5yIfJc

Old but the signs are still up last time I drove

>> ^chingalera:

Wild, wiiiiild camellllllls, couldn't drive me, a-waayyyyyy!
Maybe their riders got kilt?? Bet they do have roaming camels in some parts....dig this picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GueltaCamels.jpg


Looks like a Vegas pool

@rich_magnet @deathcow @PlayhousePals....

The mirage is an reference to what the photographer says about the image.

I was being artistic and arty-farty.

Allusional rather than illusional.

And apparently obtuse and vague.

Ha!

Upvote a fabulous photo illusion ... a mirage it ain't however

So, the mirage is where? It's a great shot, but I don't see any optical illusions. Am I missing something?

>> ^ghark:

The irony is that TYT (and the pollsters) seems to be misinformed, while some of the protesters may have similar principles to what the Democrats like to say they stand for (and hence a carefully worded question may elicit the response they wanted), journalists from the OWS movement recognize that "The electoral system is a corrupt mirage where only corporate-approved candidates are allowed to be considered seriously" and that "Obama and the Democrats are part of the problem, not the solution".
http://october2011.org/
blogs/kevin-zeese/van-jones-and-democratic-party-operatives-you-do-not-represent-occupy-movement
Have a look at the sites for many of the occupy movements, most distance themselves from any party affiliation - that's kind of the entire point of the whole protest movement, people are getting raped left, right and center by both parties.


You're absolutely correct, the OWS Movement doesn't align itself with the Democratic Party--that's one of the reasons I love them--that's also one of the reasons Cenk loves them.

I didn't get what you were saying, so I watched the video again--now I see. Cenk is reporting on the poll questions here, not his own. I admit he should have done a better job of showing that the pollster's question was screwy.

Cenk has been outspoken in the past about who the OWS Movement are and what they are about. This video has some good stuff about the difference between mainstream Dem's and OWS.