Is the World Flat? The Flatlander's theory..

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Kul

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Unclebaldrick said:
When do they feed you? Are you ever allowed out of your enclosure? When was the last time you were taken into custody? Were the drugs good? Were the other patients mean to you? Did you ever get that brain wave transmitter thingy out of your head that the dentist put in you when you were very young?
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Mellowman2112

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OK geniuses, so why is the moon somtimes tiny and sometimes huge? If the moon is at 148000 miles distance from us? Wouldnt it always stay the same size more or less?
 
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Answer the question ! So why is the moon somtimes tiny and sometimes huge? If the moon is at 148000 miles distance from us? Wouldnt it always stay the same size more or less?
 
tyler.durden

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Mellowman2112 said:
OK geniuses, so why is the moon somtimes tiny and sometimes huge? If the moon is at 148000 miles distance from us? Wouldnt it always stay the same size more or less?
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tyler.durden said:
This is the best question I've seen from you. The answer seems to be that we really don't know for sure. It's one of the mysteries of science that keep things fun. There are possible explanations, but we have yet to nail that one down -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion

Possible explanations
The size of a viewed object can be measured objectively either as an angular size (the visual angle that it subtends at the eye, corresponding to the proportion of the visual field that it occupies), or as physical size (its real size measured in, say, meters). Perceived size is only loosely related to these concepts, however. For example, if two identical, familiar objects are placed at distances of five and ten meters, respectively, then the more distant object subtends approximately half the visual angle of the nearer object, but we normally perceive that as the same size (a phenomenon referred to as size constancy), not as half the size. Conversely, if the more distant object did subtend the same angle as the nearer object then we would normally perceive it to be twice as big.

A central question pertaining to the Moon illusion, therefore, is whether the horizon moon appears larger because its perceived angular size seems greater, or because its perceived physical size seems greater, or some combination of both. There is currently no firm consensus on this point. Most recent research on the Moon illusion has been conducted by psychologists specializing in human perception. After reviewing the many different explanations in their 2002 book The Mystery of the Moon Illusion, Ross and Plug conclude "No single theory has emerged victorious".[8] The same conclusion is reached in the 1989 book, The Moon Illusion edited by Hershenson, which offers about 24 chapters written by different illusion researchers.
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I told you ALL of your stupid questions have been answered already. Here's further proof you don't even read your fav thread. Idiot...
 
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