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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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My nephew sent me this. Watch this video about the limits of perception. You may be as surprised as I was.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/05/2009 22:46:26
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dglas
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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Posted - 02/05/2009 : 22:52:10 [Permalink]
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| You mean like Michael Shermer drawing our attention to otherwise plausible stuff and then trying to slip Libertarianism in unnoticed, as if it's part of the whole scene, while we are distracted? "Who couldn't notice Libertarianism in an ape suit? C'mon!" |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 22:53:33 [Permalink]
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LOL!
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 00:04:40 [Permalink]
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By the way, I missed seeing the obvious in that video. Also, it's been reported to me, my entire San Diego family missed "it": My brother, my sister, her husband, my father, my mother and her caretaker, and the nephew who sent the vid. Of us all, only my younger nephew saw what the rest did not. The rest of us are trying to forget our failure.
Damn, you imagine there's a career opportunity in this for someone? Like on stage, or in the pulpit?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 00:32:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
The original research that Shermer is using there is fascinating. If I've got time tomorrow, I'll go find the videos again (there are more) and link to them.
In the meantime, check out this limits-of-perception demo, too.
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Jeeze. Again. Can I try 3 out of 5?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2009 : 00:43:38 [Permalink]
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I didn't miss it. I didn't know what to expect, but with that setup I knew something out of the ordinary was on its way.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 00:48:41 [Permalink]
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On the cards, I saw three of the color changes, and the "extra" in the room for the second half.
But yeah.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 00:50:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Jeeze. Again. Can I try 3 out of 5? |
Don't sweat it. There are plenty of things in the Lab's videos that I missed.
Although... I did see the thing in the video in the OP. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/06/2009 : 05:23:22 [Permalink]
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I saw it! honestly!
However, I did not notice that he stopped a few seconds and beat its chest. I thought I just saw the gorilla just walk through without a pause.
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"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 02/06/2009 : 06:01:53 [Permalink]
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| What does it mean if you saw the gorilla but didn't think it was odd? |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 02/06/2009 : 08:08:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Although... I did see the thing in the video in the OP.
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It swooshed right by me.
I had to go back and double-check the first half of the video to make sure he wasn't pulling my/our legs. I'm still skeptical: the browser must have switched file on me.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 09:23:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I had to go back and double-check the first half of the video to make sure he wasn't pulling my/our legs. I'm still skeptical: the browser must have switched file on me. |
You can always try the original video, instead of seeing a video of Shermer's projection of the video. |
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Evidently, I rock!
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 10:08:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Whenever I see this video or especially this version of it, I want to believe that I wouldn't fall for it. But deep down, I bet I'd be one of the many who miss the action.
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Wow really? People miss that? Of course this may not be fair since my radar was up do to the nature of this thread but I can't imagine missing those. |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2009 : 15:59:43 [Permalink]
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Here's another odd one, although I must say I figured it out long before the "reveal." Perhaps with a better FX budget I may have been fooled. Still, even when you know what's wrong, it doesn't look as wrong as it should.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Perception video (this amazed me!)
