The Entertaining Pictures Thread
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mat the expat
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Insane_Homer
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
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Insane_Homer
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
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Insane_Homer
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
All those gulls have been eating high protein food for a year! Not only are they starving for a nice fatty chip, but they've been bulking up flying greater distances and diving for fish!
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fishfoodie
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No sign of the loser Ex-President in these photos; but then his skin colour will provide such marvelous camouflage
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-56238018
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-56238018
I drink and I forget things.
I like marmite, but even I wouldn't want that.
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Insane_Homer
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
https://www.farmersguide.co.uk/british- ... -in-spain/
Seemed too ridiculous, even for food labelling tricks.
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Tanker coming in to land off Falmouth
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There are only so many polite words that come to mind when one spots a ship apparently hovering above the ocean during a stroll along the English coastline.
David Morris, who captured the extraordinary sight on camera, declared himself “stunned” when he noticed a giant tanker floating above the water as he looked out to sea from a hamlet near Falmouth in Cornwall.
The effect is an example of an optical illusion known as a superior mirage. Such illusions are reasonably common in the Arctic but can also happen in UK winters when the atmospheric conditions are right, though they are very rare.
The illusion is caused by a meteorological phenomenon called a temperature inversion. Normally, the air temperature drops with increasing altitude, making mountaintops colder than the foothills. But in a temperature inversion, warm air sits on top of a band of colder air, playing havoc with our visual perception. The inversion in Cornwall was caused by chilly air lying over the relatively cold sea with warmer air above.
Because cold air is denser than warm air, it has a higher refractive index. In the case of the “hovering ship”, this means light rays coming from the ship are bent downwards as it passes through the colder air, to observers on the shoreline. This makes the ship appear in a higher position than it really is – in this instance, above the sea surface.
“Superior mirages occur because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion, where cold air lies close to the sea with warmer air above it,” said David Braine, a BBC meteorologist. “Since cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light towards the eyes of someone standing on the ground or on the coast, changing how a distant object appears.”
David Morris, who captured the extraordinary sight on camera, declared himself “stunned” when he noticed a giant tanker floating above the water as he looked out to sea from a hamlet near Falmouth in Cornwall.
The effect is an example of an optical illusion known as a superior mirage. Such illusions are reasonably common in the Arctic but can also happen in UK winters when the atmospheric conditions are right, though they are very rare.
The illusion is caused by a meteorological phenomenon called a temperature inversion. Normally, the air temperature drops with increasing altitude, making mountaintops colder than the foothills. But in a temperature inversion, warm air sits on top of a band of colder air, playing havoc with our visual perception. The inversion in Cornwall was caused by chilly air lying over the relatively cold sea with warmer air above.
Because cold air is denser than warm air, it has a higher refractive index. In the case of the “hovering ship”, this means light rays coming from the ship are bent downwards as it passes through the colder air, to observers on the shoreline. This makes the ship appear in a higher position than it really is – in this instance, above the sea surface.
“Superior mirages occur because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion, where cold air lies close to the sea with warmer air above it,” said David Braine, a BBC meteorologist. “Since cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light towards the eyes of someone standing on the ground or on the coast, changing how a distant object appears.”
Nah, it's just fallen off the edge of the flat earth, and because gravity isn't real it's follow the density gradient off the edge, so going up /flatearthernonsense.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Happyhooker
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living on the isle of wight is affecting youRaggs wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:41 pm Nah, it's just fallen off the edge of the flat earth, and because gravity isn't real it's follow the density gradient off the edge, so going up /flatearthernonsense.
I'll have you know that me and my cousin father brother were discussing this with our mother sister and she agreed that's it's all true!Happyhooker wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 11:26 pmliving on the isle of wight is affecting youRaggs wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:41 pm Nah, it's just fallen off the edge of the flat earth, and because gravity isn't real it's follow the density gradient off the edge, so going up /flatearthernonsense.
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
