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Refraction - Telephoto Timelapse Video

eric3579 says...

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.

Giant Floating City Sighted Over China

Captain Disillusion: Floating City & lazy Journalism

Giant Floating City Sighted Over China

Giant Floating City Sighted Over China

shang says...

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

Giant Floating City Sighted Over China

F-16s, F-18s, and Mirages flying around to music

Reversing Arrow Optical Illusion

Payback says...

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.

MichaelL said:

From Wikipedia:
An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.

That means when you stare at an object DIRECTLY, you are tricked into believing that it has different qualities than it does.

In this example, you aren't starting at the arrows... you are staring at a diffracted image of the arrows. The diffracted arrows REALLY do point in the opposite direction. There's no illusion here.

Consider this...

If I put a rose-tinted pane of glass in front of the arrows, would you consider that an optical illusion?

Would you think "Hey, those arrows were on white paper before, NOW the paper is pink! Mind blown! Optical illusion!'?

No, you understand that you are seeing the colour pink because that's the property of the pane of glass IN FRONT OF the white sheet.

If you put a white sheet in front of the arrows, would you think: "Hey, the arrows have disappeared? Optical illusion!"?

No, that's the property of the sheet in front of the arrows.

And so on...

Hopefully, that clarifies it for you...

The Colbert Reports On Nestle's Bottled Water Campaign

aimpoint says...

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

Surprising Photo: Camel Mirage

Surprising Photo: Camel Mirage

Surprising Photo: Camel Mirage

Surprising Photo: Camel Mirage

Surprising Photo: Camel Mirage

Poll: Fox News Viewers Vs Daily Show Viewers--TYT

Boise_Lib says...

>> ^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.








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