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Finally something I know the answer to! This is called the Moon Terminator Illusion and it's an optical illusion. The line is in fact straight, but your brain lacks any reference point to understand it as such.
Generally speaking, your eyes sees a lot of straight lines as curves. If you were to stand in a room and make a little window with your hand to look through and stare at the corner where the wall meets the ceiling, you could look to the left and see a line angled upward, look straight ahead and see a flat line, and look to the right to see a downward sloped line. Even though it's a perfectly straight line you see it as a giant arc. Your mind knows it's a straight line because its close and you have reference points so it reinterprets it as a straight line.
That’s what I came to say, that isolation room video made me hate the prison system. I’d been such a big fan of his for so long, and then we just watched his personality change happen in 3 days. And he volunteered for that, he was calm when he entered that room. I can’t imagine how much more of a personhood breaker it is to be thrown into that.
For his videos he wanted to delve into the psychological effects of various things. In one video, he tested how bad it actually is to be in total isolation, in which he went i to a plain white room, with a white bed, water, and some food, with no real way to stimulate himself for three days. As the lights were always on, his perception of time was completely broken, and he even almost gave up partway through due to the mental exhaustion and confusion. In another video, he experimented with how the brain perceives things and where his spirit/consciousness sits relative to his physical being, so travelled to somewhere in south america to test his brain impulses while tripping and to see if he responded or thought differently before and after the experiment. Sorry if I misremembered anything, been a few years since I’ve watched them.
Switch the video speed to 1.25 and it'll feel exactly like his normal videos. I don't know if he's sped up his videos or this one got slowed down. But yeah, that's a lot of slow talking
OP claims it's one line, I think the central part just isn't showing up well on video, but they seem to run right into each other. I really don't think there's two spotlights set up to perfectly point at one another
Okay look… somewhere on Reddit I read a comment yesterday on solid proof the Earth is actually flat — 71% of the planet is covered with flat, not carbonated, water. 😂
That's actually why the ancient aliens turned the prehistoric mastofelines to stone before the great calamity 10000 years ago. You think the sphinx's are STATUES made by savages with stone tools? More fool you my friend, wake up.
it looks like 2 beams meeting in the mid. either 2 seperate beams or some sort of reflection in the rain
edit: it is just one beam... and the perspective of the camera makes it look like there is an angle but it is one straight line i think... sorry team two beam
Two beam or not two beam
that is the question
whether tis nobler in the sky
to light the clouds and rain of outrageous weather
or to take ions against a sea of darkness
and by dimming, join them
As a professional optical engineer, I agree. It looks perfectly straight, faded out in the middle as it went into the clouds, then there was another straight line going down the other side.
You can make things look curved with a wide angle fish eye lens, and you can actually curve light with refraction or intense gravitational fields. It doesn’t look like lens distortion is high here, and air isn’t dense enough to curve the light like that, for refraction, at those angles and altitudes. Definitely no gravity fields strong enough. Fiber optics could do it too, if you strung one through the sky and had it lossy enough.
If you can find a way to curve light through empty air, you could make a lot of money! There is active research to see around corners and over hills for the military and communications
Im pretty certain its not. Like another comment said, the moon terminator illusion, but i think the confusion in ths video is if you follow it in a straight line you lose where the line is and it ends not where you would expect it because of it. Reflection from the rain would most likely scatter the light not redirect it this clearly (not as certain about this claim so feel free to provide evidence to the contrary), and having two seperate beams pointed at each other that far apart is somewhat unrealistic I'd think. Like what would the explanation for 2 beams be, some dude has two lights a mile apart pointed at each other... why? I think occam's razor, its an illusion not two beams. Not an expert opinion in the slightest but thats my take.
If you use 3 snap blast grenades you can stick all three of them before the first explodes and the Surveyor runs off, then you don't have to stun it and the 3 grenades will kill it every time. Can use trigger nades, but I find the snap blasts more cost efficient.
This looks like part of the light installation I saw in Copenhagen in February earlier this year! They were two separate green lasers shooting across the city. It was so cool.
It’s caught in the gravity pockets the elephants give off. The bend it enough for the turtles gravity to take over and ground the arch. It grounds in Nanny Ogg’s kitchen. She doesn’t mind though. It’s handy for boiling the water first the still m.
How would one cause a disco ball kind of light refraction when the laser hits the clouds? Is something like that possible? Maybe frozen water droplets?
I think you’re seeing the diffraction (?) of the beam off the clouds, as it scatters through all the droplets, which would follow the underside of the clouds, maybe?
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Finally something I know the answer to! This is called the Moon Terminator Illusion and it's an optical illusion. The line is in fact straight, but your brain lacks any reference point to understand it as such.
Generally speaking, your eyes sees a lot of straight lines as curves. If you were to stand in a room and make a little window with your hand to look through and stare at the corner where the wall meets the ceiling, you could look to the left and see a line angled upward, look straight ahead and see a flat line, and look to the right to see a downward sloped line. Even though it's a perfectly straight line you see it as a giant arc. Your mind knows it's a straight line because its close and you have reference points so it reinterprets it as a straight line.
Watch this video by VSauce for a better understanding.
Here's another video that demonstrates how a perfectly straight line of string appears as a large curve against the sky.
Whoa, he used to talk that slow??
That was before the ayahuasca
And that isolation room
That’s what I came to say, that isolation room video made me hate the prison system. I’d been such a big fan of his for so long, and then we just watched his personality change happen in 3 days. And he volunteered for that, he was calm when he entered that room. I can’t imagine how much more of a personhood breaker it is to be thrown into that.
OOTL what's this about an isolation room and Ayahuasca?
For his videos he wanted to delve into the psychological effects of various things. In one video, he tested how bad it actually is to be in total isolation, in which he went i to a plain white room, with a white bed, water, and some food, with no real way to stimulate himself for three days. As the lights were always on, his perception of time was completely broken, and he even almost gave up partway through due to the mental exhaustion and confusion. In another video, he experimented with how the brain perceives things and where his spirit/consciousness sits relative to his physical being, so travelled to somewhere in south america to test his brain impulses while tripping and to see if he responded or thought differently before and after the experiment. Sorry if I misremembered anything, been a few years since I’ve watched them.
That explains a lot 🤣
the ayahuasca video is wildly interesting if you have even the slightest interest in psychedelic compounds.
Thanks 👍
What is the tea?? I used to watch vsauce like 16 years ago I think. Remember liking his videos a lot
Every youtuber used to talk that slow. Like a normal human, and not like a squirrel on cocaine.
Yes exactly, I remember watching a video about this ‘YouTube voice’ - a couple of years ago and I swear it’s spread so much more
Switch the video speed to 1.25 and it'll feel exactly like his normal videos. I don't know if he's sped up his videos or this one got slowed down. But yeah, that's a lot of slow talking
Whoah, and I will use any excuse at Christmas to talk about Moon Terminator Illusion , as if I discovered the phenomena!
Seriously though, thanks for sharing this. Very cool.
Moon Terminator Illusion was my nickname in high school.
It would also make a sick af band name….. “yeah I’m gonna go see MTI tonight”
Thanks for the explanation!
But it actually looks like two straight lines, not curved at all. Maybe I've had too many concussions.
OP claims it's one line, I think the central part just isn't showing up well on video, but they seem to run right into each other. I really don't think there's two spotlights set up to perfectly point at one another
So that's why all my pictures I put up are never straight...
I remember reading that is the case with the stairs at the Parthenon. The Greeks put a curve to them so they'd look straight.
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Excellent answer to an excellent question
I really enjoyed both of those videos. Thank you so much for posting that 🙏🏼👏🏼❄️😁
Proof that the Earth is not flat.
i can tell there's at least one flat earther that downvoted this comment
Okay look… somewhere on Reddit I read a comment yesterday on solid proof the Earth is actually flat — 71% of the planet is covered with flat, not carbonated, water. 😂
Yet we also have proof that the world is NOT flat. If it were, cats would have already pushed everything off the edge already.
Yet we also have further proof that the world is NOT flat, companies would be commercialising the edge for tourism and other reasons
The Restaurant at the End of the Earth?
Hello there fellow Hitchhiker I assume you know where your towel is
Big-Bearagamo is one hoopy frood.
And Independent_Vast9279 is one frood who really knows where their towel is
I wouldn't want to go anywhere without my wonderful towel.
Why am I paying so much? I literally had the soup and two breadsticks. Free breadsticks!
If Earth is flat, I wonder if the social distancing back during the pandemic pushed anyone over the edge.
We don't talk about the over-earthers
That was whatever rapture was meant to happen that year.
There's definitely a market for edging yes.
That's actually why the ancient aliens turned the prehistoric mastofelines to stone before the great calamity 10000 years ago. You think the sphinx's are STATUES made by savages with stone tools? More fool you my friend, wake up.
/s (just in casey)
Wait wait
Hear me out
It’s because the world IS flat. Here let me make up some pseudo science shit real quick
If it were flat and there was an edge we would be dumping our trash off the edge
This is not proof of the earth being flat nor round. It's two beams that are meeting. It's a test between two airports.
Bro, it's hitting the dome and bending with it. /s
Ala The Truman Show
Well unfortunately not it would side with the flat earthers. This is just a mirror essentially the light is straight not curved in the beginning.
it looks like 2 beams meeting in the mid. either 2 seperate beams or some sort of reflection in the rain
edit: it is just one beam... and the perspective of the camera makes it look like there is an angle but it is one straight line i think... sorry team two beam
I'd say 2 beams also
I am team two-beam
Two beam or not two beam
It’s a double beamer
The ol’ eiffel beamin
The two-beam supreme
Supreme beam
That is the question.
For in that sleep of death, what beams may come
Two beam or not two beam that is the question whether tis nobler in the sky to light the clouds and rain of outrageous weather or to take ions against a sea of darkness and by dimming, join them
Two-beam Team
C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate, actually.
Two beam team
As a professional optical engineer, I agree. It looks perfectly straight, faded out in the middle as it went into the clouds, then there was another straight line going down the other side.
You can make things look curved with a wide angle fish eye lens, and you can actually curve light with refraction or intense gravitational fields. It doesn’t look like lens distortion is high here, and air isn’t dense enough to curve the light like that, for refraction, at those angles and altitudes. Definitely no gravity fields strong enough. Fiber optics could do it too, if you strung one through the sky and had it lossy enough.
If you can find a way to curve light through empty air, you could make a lot of money! There is active research to see around corners and over hills for the military and communications
Optical Engineering Degree here, this is accurate. Go Yellowjackets
Never cross the beams!
Don’t knock until you’ve tried it.
Im pretty certain its not. Like another comment said, the moon terminator illusion, but i think the confusion in ths video is if you follow it in a straight line you lose where the line is and it ends not where you would expect it because of it. Reflection from the rain would most likely scatter the light not redirect it this clearly (not as certain about this claim so feel free to provide evidence to the contrary), and having two seperate beams pointed at each other that far apart is somewhat unrealistic I'd think. Like what would the explanation for 2 beams be, some dude has two lights a mile apart pointed at each other... why? I think occam's razor, its an illusion not two beams. Not an expert opinion in the slightest but thats my take.
Or theres a black hole just on the mesosphere 🤓
I can confirm having seen it in real life that it was one beam. This is just my shoddy camera work!
Surveyor. Stun it first
If you use 3 snap blast grenades you can stick all three of them before the first explodes and the Surveyor runs off, then you don't have to stun it and the 3 grenades will kill it every time. Can use trigger nades, but I find the snap blasts more cost efficient.
Thanks, I didn't know that
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🫡 ✈️
Thank you! This will make that quest so much easier! I hope.
I did this randomly and was pleasantly surprised lol
Same. I was like, well that works a lot better than chasing the blighter around with an Anvil lol
Certainly saved a lot of time. Those things are annoying for being 3rd partied
Came here to find this comment
This guy kills the queen, not this fellow raiders.
https://preview.redd.it/1fbnt1a4nv6g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=36b798db14bca82c70be5565f40b208d2fbd9664
Just checking this comment was here, all is well
Been scrolling to find this comment
refraction. as the cloud density changes so does the angle of refraction. (i think)
Could also be a reflection in the same way AM radio waves reflect off the ionosphere, but I like your hypothesis more.
I thought this at first
https://preview.redd.it/fg026gpzkv6g1.png?width=598&format=png&auto=webp&s=7edbdcc3382debe9feb2726b3ccc78f83a3fa99e
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/mirage.html
This is such a dumb comment.
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What you're ACTUALLY seeing is swamp gas from a weather balloon that was trapped in a thermal pocket which refracted the light from Venus.
Arc surveyor!
Thats a surveyor
A Highlander's been decapitated, obvs
https://preview.redd.it/8gkuoa5abw6g1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93382d36a0cd1ff0303335310287ddf71add898f
Juju magic bro it’s Gota be
Its 2 different light points intersecting in the sky to give this illusion
The sky is the illusion my sister, not the light.
All things serve the beam.
I scrolled so far to finally find a beam reference 😎
It doesn’t. Those are two separate beams.
double rainbow
Obviously that's a unicolor night Rainbow. No gold pot at the end tho, just misery...
Earth ROUND
Bat signal
You're seeing refraction in action!
I think this is called ducting. It's air temperature, humidity and surface temperature "bending" the light
Change in altitude of reflection based on cloud shape in the sky
My guess is that there is another bin at the opposite side
Light bends as it moves between media of different densities ("refractive index").
Refraction, diffraction, and diffusion.
And obfuscation.
Rainbows
That’s where you must bring a stone to a shrine of light!
Surveyor vault
That’s the neat part! It doesn’t but our brain thinks it is
I'm taking a risk...the earth is round
is that an aftermarket LED from a car in m4 ?
Because the earth is round
Depends on who you ask…
Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere
Rainbows.....
The beam is at higher elevation than you. It is going straight
It’s a surveyor
RemindMe! [tomorrow] "[reply to this thread]"
Could be atmospheric ducting that is the result if the light retracting off of clouds and different layers of earth's atmosphere.
Um
Ever seen a rainbow?
ARC Surveyor update IRL
This looks like part of the light installation I saw in Copenhagen in February earlier this year! They were two separate green lasers shooting across the city. It was so cool.
To shine on the other side
Shhhhh ! It’s a secret
Because the horizon bends?
Ahhh bro that's just a couple of ARC Surveyors
Its because the world is flat
It’s caught in the gravity pockets the elephants give off. The bend it enough for the turtles gravity to take over and ground the arch. It grounds in Nanny Ogg’s kitchen. She doesn’t mind though. It’s handy for boiling the water first the still m.
How would one cause a disco ball kind of light refraction when the laser hits the clouds? Is something like that possible? Maybe frozen water droplets?
Firmament
https://preview.redd.it/l0zjoqk8kv6g1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0487d00ef333dde4e7ea2961c31ee1ad7461e311
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/mirage.html
Refraction...
I’m thinking the light source is very high up and shining parallel to the ground. It isn’t actually curved.
Arc surveyor
Arc Surveyor
Helldivers
You don't wear the suite. You're not worthy of seeing the symbol 🤣🤣
Because the earth is curved??
Surveyor
surveyor arc is there. Go find it
Flat earth duh!
I think you’re seeing the diffraction (?) of the beam off the clouds, as it scatters through all the droplets, which would follow the underside of the clouds, maybe?
Flat earth confirmed!!!!!!
Its reflecting off of the dome /s
Because the earth is round
Finally
It is bouncing off the firmament...
/s
The Kings are done winning and they’re looking to share the beam with a better team.
Arc Surveyor
Refraction?
The light might be reflecting off the cloud cover.
This is what it sounds like When doves cry
well, it's not because the Earth is made out of flat chemtrails
2 beams.
Rings are lined up to summon captain planet
Photons
As an arc raider, I'd say thats a surveyor.
Gravity
Could be refracting through the clouds
Because the earth is a globe? 🌎
Light bouncing weirdly due to the water molecules in the clouds?
There's a mirror up there, duh
Ever played Arc Raiders? That’s a Surveyor
Planet is ball.
We’re looking for Batman! Where is he?!
The location of the COD Zombies Random weapons box
Someone has a quest for you.
Beacon?
That and also the world isn't flat
Its bouncing off the glass dome
If you kill it, i need that surveyor vault
The heart is s globe
Scotty forgot to beam someone up.
most likely due to that ridiculous "round earth" myth
Reflection off the dome most likely.
It’s a Surveyor, see you top side friends
because the sky is round
It is going straight, but in curved space-time.
That’s a surveyor - go get its goop!
Arc surveyor
Grab a towel, follow me
Reflecting off of the clouds
Refracts off the firmament. I’m totally kidding, that’s insane to believe
thats a surveyor from Arc Raiders
Refraction
Arc surveyor