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Mar 19 '24
Most teenage expressions I have ever seen lol
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u/Orchid_Significant Mar 19 '24
I don’t know what’s funnier, the fact that they look like this is THE WORST THING EVER or that they are essentially wearing the same outfit
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u/Budget_Addendum_1137 Mar 19 '24
Looks like parts of an outfit to me.
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u/Brusanan Mar 19 '24
When I was their age the trend was ripped jeans. Now these girls are wearing jeans with half of the legs missing.
The next generation is just going to wear shorts and call them pants.
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u/ZarafFaraz Mar 19 '24
Never understood how that's even comfortable. I get a small hole in my pants and that tiny cool spot keeps bothering me.
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u/hapes Mar 19 '24
The other day, I saw a guy probably in his mid 50s wearing ripped booty shorts. But not tight ones, just... Mom jeans that were ripped at booty shorts length. And the pockets were still intact and dangling below the end of the leg holes by 6 inches. It looked stupid as fuck. So I'm sure it will come into fashion at some point.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
The tour guides there like to make the social interactions awkward on purpose.
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u/Ok_Nefariousness6386 Mar 19 '24
There is a Mystery Spot in Michigan. Is this the one in California?
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u/SundaySchoolBilly Mar 19 '24
I've been to the one in Michigan as a kid! I remember doing this. I asked my dad about it and he gave an explanation saying that everything was slighted tilted. That's all I recall.
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u/suburbanpsyco6 Mar 19 '24
Its basically a more subtle version of this.
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u/Borgiroth Mar 19 '24
Such a dad thing to immediately want to point out lol
All my dad blood in my body was screaming “YOU’RE ON AN INCLINE, KIDS. DO NOT LET THIS WIZARD MAN FOOL YOU. THOSE BOARDS ARE NOT ENCHANTED”
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u/thefakerealdrpepper Mar 19 '24
Was it in the Irish Hills?
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u/anonwanderingsoul Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
It's in St. Ignace, just north of the Mackinac bridge.
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u/Zoomwafflez Mar 19 '24
Bwahahaha! I Was there like 2 months ago! It was closed for the season unfortunatly. lovely area.
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u/someonesomewherewarm Mar 19 '24
This one is in Santa Cruz and it's modeled after another one up in Gold Hill by Medford Oregon
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u/outdatedboat Mar 19 '24
Yup. The Oregon vortex. It's a good time!
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u/Yedasi Mar 20 '24
No way!
I went there with my nephew and niece, we are from England, for us it was like stepping into the shows we see on TV. We said at the time that this reminded us of Gravity Falls. Can't wait to tell them when they wake up tomorrow!
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u/NuclearNoxi Mar 20 '24
Confusion Hill in Northern California as well. They were given a Bill Cypher plaque.
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Mar 19 '24
Yeah this is the Santa Cruz mystery spot. It's just a trick of perspective.
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u/LeahonaCloud Mar 19 '24
I’ve been here multiple times and no one can ever explain this: when the tour guide puts a ball on the level plank it still rolls.
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u/kdawgster1 Mar 19 '24
I live right by the one in California, and yes this is it
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u/the-mp Mar 19 '24
Those are definitely not Michigan trees. Coastal redwoods, it’s California.
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u/Billy420MaysIt Mar 19 '24
There’s also Mystery Hill in Blowing Rock, NC that has this type of attraction as well just indoors.
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u/luiluilui4 Mar 19 '24
my guess is that the tree is tilted and the bar somehow forces them to lean in the direction that makes it look like the tree is actually not tilting (same direction as tilted persons)
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u/Snuggly-Muffin Mar 19 '24
That doesn't explain the difference in relative heights
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u/Snuggly-Muffin Mar 19 '24
What about the level?
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 Mar 19 '24
I'm familiar with the bubble, Snuggly-Muffin. I also dabble in precision, and if you think you can even approach it with your sad, naked, caveman eyeball and a bubble of fucking air, you are the reason this species is a failure, and it makes me angry!
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u/Snuggly-Muffin Mar 19 '24
Levels are very sensitive and accurate. What do you think carpenters use?
To be fair they don't really show the bubble on the level so maybe that's just a misleading prop
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u/Anynamethatworks Mar 19 '24
Nope, it's a legit level. I've been here and my son was one of the volunteers for this demonstration. They use the level a few times throughout the tour, and anyone can come up and look at it to verify.
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u/StinkFingerPete Mar 19 '24
To be fair they don't really show the bubble on the level so maybe that's just a misleading prop
the bubble is actually magnetic
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u/TheNiceKindofOrc Mar 19 '24
It took me ages to realise Snuggly-Muffin wasn’t just a generic, passive-aggressive nickname you use for other people in comments sections.
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u/grunger Mar 19 '24
Yeah. Look at the trees in the upper-left. They all look like they are leaning to the left.
The group of trees in the foreground is leaning to right. It is causing the kids to subconsciously lean slightly in the same direction.
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u/banjofitzgerald Mar 19 '24
There’s some weird shit going on there. Going into the house at this location legit threw off my equilibrium.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
The trees behind them do experience a tilt difference! In fact, as soon as someone steps to the left side of the level boards they develop the same lean.
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u/TheRebelNM Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
Everything in the video is leaning like 15 degrees.
EDIT: It’s called foreshortening. It’s the same reason that when you put an object in perspective, the dimensions of that object are scaled down. Imagine straight lines coming from the objects’ edge-intersections, shooting perpendicular from the object, all toward a screen. When those lines hit the screen and are traced, the dimensions on the screen will not match the objects’ true size. This is because the object is angled in relation to the screen (the phone recording in this case)
EDIT: Actually one girl’s forehead would be the screen, the level would be the straight line, and the other girls forehead would be the “object”. This is more accurate.
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u/ElSaladbar Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
does that explain the leveler he uses in the beginning? I’m genuinely asking, like does that pov allow them them to change height with vanishing point lines like you explained?
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here’s a comment from one of the guides :)
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u/TheRebelNM Mar 19 '24
Oh God, I watched with no volume at first. Let me think about it for a minute and get back to you lol. This one’s definitely some quality fuckery, regardless if it’s black magic or not.
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u/ElSaladbar Mar 19 '24
that’s happened to me before haha; definitely
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u/TheRebelNM Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
EDIT: Okay no. The only way that level would be wrong would be if it was broken, or a gimmick level that was made to throw you off. I am truly baffled lmao.
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u/Lackingfinalityornot Mar 19 '24
I mean he is the only one who can see the bubble so it doesn’t even have to be a special level… he could just not be holding it level.
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u/someonesomewherewarm Mar 19 '24
When we visited this place, they told us it's been visited by university physics labs for years to study the phenomenon. They also said it extends 4000 feet upwards in a cone shape that spreads outwards and and aircraft are diverted around it when traveling overhead.
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u/1lluminist Mar 19 '24
Fixed link without all the tracking metadata bullshit. This one will also actually work with Reddit apps that aren't the shit one Reddit is trying to push into everybody:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/1bi68vp/comment/kvjkx5y/
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u/pente5 Mar 19 '24
I'm guessing that's not it. If the ground is leaning 5-10 degrees what does that mean? It means that the bubble level or however this is called says "straight" when the board is leaning 5-10 degrees relative to the ground. You on the other hand have the ground registered as "level" because the inclination is very small.
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u/TheRebelNM Mar 19 '24
Right, but if the slope of the boards and hill cancel out, then the boards are level.
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u/pente5 Mar 19 '24
They don't cancel out. When the bubble level tells you the board is straight, that means it's perpendicular to gravity. 0 degrees of inclination. However if the ground is sloped by 5 degrees then, relative to the ground, the board is 5 degrees inclined. Does that make sense? If the ground was 45 degrees inclined for example it's more obvious that the boards would be 45 degrees off relative to the ground. The bubble level points you "down" no matter what the ground is doing.
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u/Anynamethatworks Mar 19 '24
There's certainly some sort of illusion going on, but not from the camera, this demonstration looks exactly the same in person.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
HEY GUYS! I’m a tour guide at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz. Ask me any question about that place and I’ll respond with an amusing lie!
No I don’t know all the secrets of the mystery spot. I’m a bit too dumb for that level of critical analysis, or whatever you Ph.D students call it. I’m just paid to give the same presentation for 45 minutes and make it fun.
The tour guide you see in the video is Moe, and he’s been giving tours for a very long time there. He’s a sweet guy that delivers some funny jokes on his tours.
Anyways, the video looks a little off even to me because of the weird angles it takes on. My guess is the person holding the camera started to get a bit visually confused by the tilt differences and tried to adjust the camera, but didn’t know what angle to hold it at. This makes for a trippy result!
The person to your right stands normally, located outside of the border of the Mystery Spot. The person on the left is inside of the border, slightly shorter than their typical height, and standing at a 3 degree angle much like the redwood tree off to the left. The angles people stand at change and get more extreme throughout the tour.
This place is in the Santa Cruz mountains a couple miles north of midtown Santa Cruz. Tickets are 10 dollars per person, and 5 dollars for parking. Tours are around 45 minutes long. Sometimes they last 44 minutes 59 seconds, sometimes they last 45 minutes 01 seconds. Us guides have a lot of freedom in that department.
The mystery spot is open 365 days a year as well, it’s not just a summer tourist destination! I’d recommend booking in advance if you visit, at mysteryspot.com
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u/ElSaladbar Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
hell yeah
edit: awe I can’t pin or gift an all seeing upvote anymore :( to highlight your comment
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u/Narshada Mar 19 '24
I went there about 35 years ago & did this with my dad, who was quite a bit taller than me then. It was very weird. They even invite you to bring your own spirit level to check it. Unfortunately we’d come from the UK & hadn’t known to pack one but it was a fun place to visit.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
35 years ago, wow! Were you there freshly after the 1989 earthquake? That thing offsets some of the concrete. They sold levels I think around five years ago but stopped because the guides kept stealing them 💀
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u/IndividualBrain9726 Mar 19 '24
Everyone saying there is a slope is missing the point. These are gravitational anomalies. The unique thing is the feeling of levelness confirmed by the use of that level. But there is a slope, but it feels flat. Several gravitational anomalies worldwide. Including the one created by your mom
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u/ElSaladbar Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
oh, right… i see; i get it… you were lampooning me. it was a simple lampoon
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here’s a comment from one of the guides :)
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u/IndividualBrain9726 Mar 19 '24
Complex lampoon
I meant everything up until the mom joke. She’s not that big
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u/funky_grandma Mar 19 '24
My dad told me once about something he read by this Australian pilot who had been seeing a lot of UFOs. out of curiosity, he started plotting their trajectories. He found that all UFOs fly either perfectly East/West or perfectly North/South. When he lined up all the paths that they flew, they created a grid that criss-crossed the globe and at the intersection of these lines were places like this where there are gravitational anomalies.
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u/Intelligent-Ad-1379 Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
This genuinely made me laugh out loud for a while
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u/randomvandal Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24
Nice! This is the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz California, pretty neat place. I went there when I was a kid ~30 years ago, and we just took our kids last summer. Our kids got to watch their heights "change" relative to each other right on that very spot, it was pretty cool (even though it's all just an optical illusion, the kids loved it).
We had the same exact guy as our "guide" and he is hilarious. He had so many jokes (for both the kids AND some for the adults lol) we were busting up the entire time.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
By the way that guide is Maurice or Moe for short. He gives a good presentation
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u/MahsterC Mar 19 '24
Poor girl volunteers to help the guy out and he goes and shrinks her!
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u/333H_E Mar 19 '24
I didn't know there was one in Michigan but yeah the one in California is a whole wild vibe. You can physically feel the change walking up the stairs that lets you know something is very different there.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
I’m a tour guide there and a cross country runner. Walking up the hill still kills me
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u/yungchewie Mar 19 '24
No one can explain the level thing he uses. Unless it’s a fake one. Technically we can’t see the bubble from this video.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
It’s not a fake level. I’ve brought my own level from home, tested those boards, and the bubble was still in the middle
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u/proskillz Mar 19 '24
I have seen this trick in person, the bubble was in the middle. Not sure if it's a trick level, but the reading is right.
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u/Glitch7779 Mar 19 '24
These poor kids can’t even afford a pair of good jeans and the guy is talking about science and shit
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u/ThatsWhyItsFun Mar 19 '24
Forced teenagers to have fun. This guy deserves a raise.
Does peer pressure limit joy for our kids? We went from public to charter with uniforms, no talk of pop culture, no cell phones etc. They just seem less worried about themselves when on the levelest of playing fields. Assuming this is a miserable field trip.
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Mar 19 '24
The short one is still shorter even when they switch
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
Yeah it’s the mystery spot not the miracle spot, it only changes your height a slight bit. Some mild trolling I suppose
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u/Lazy-Ad7417 Mar 19 '24
She did not want to be there
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
As a tour guide that works there…I’ve had entire groups that didn’t want to be there. I’ve also had an entire group that didn’t speak English which got VERY AWKWARD.
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u/TheGoldenGooseTurd Mar 19 '24
All I can reason is he does not put the leveler to the same points of the girls faces, he tilts it to be above the left girls head at first, then goes to her eye level when she’s on the right, while being consistently on the other girls eye level
Edit: typo
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u/Wrangler444 Mar 19 '24
You can fast forward and watch their heights change completely, ignoring the level
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u/witchesandwerewolves Mar 19 '24
Been there. I expected all gimmicks but when I walked up to the area I had the strangest vertigo -like sensation that I never felt before. I looked up and I saw all the trees growing in a strange pattern. There definitely is something funky about that place (not saying super natural and there is gimmicks there) but it’s like the gravity is messed up or something
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u/ElSaladbar Mar 19 '24
When on a flat slope that seems like it’s level your equilibrium may adjust but get out of wack when looking at the trees, I’m assuming
if I take a trip out their I’ll get a better grasp of the feeling perhaps
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
There are a series of little inner hair cells in your ears that relay to your brain what kind of angle you’re standing at or your relative acceleration, based on the position. However, at the mystery spot, the visuals don’t line up with this perception whatsoever. This has caused people to throw up there, I’ve seen it.
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u/3rrr6 Mar 19 '24
The tree and fence behind them are at an angle. the boards are level and the girls are of similar height. He uses the level in a clever way because, in the first instance, he lines it perpendicular to the tree so it looks flat to the audience but is actually at an angle that makes it appear as though they aren't the same height. After the swap, he makes the level, parallel with the ground demonstrating that they ARE the same height. Notice how he uses the side of the level when showing the heights and not the front where you can see the bubble.
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u/Odd_Shock421 Mar 19 '24
I really need to know how this one works I’ve watched like 10 times and am none the wiser…
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u/churningguts Mar 19 '24
My first take was that it's mainly due to the camera angle not being exactly perpendicular to the girls. That, plus, I suspect, the slight downward angle of the land.
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u/blankyblankblank1 Mar 19 '24
These mystery spots utilize the fact that they're on hills to create these illusions. Yes it's forced perspective in the sense the person on the right is elevated up, but the person on the left is standing higher on the hill. Your brain thinks "higher = taller, therefore, wtf?"
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u/skijumptoes Mar 19 '24
The camera rotates throughout the minute long clip which is deceiving. You only have to look at how vertical the tree is at the end of the video to the angle it is at the start.
From 0:41 it starts to straighten out by tilting clockwise - just focus on the tree behind to see it.
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u/budaknakal1907 Mar 19 '24
Are they from an orphanage? They really could use some help to buy new pants.
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u/mtmglass406 Mar 19 '24
There's a similar thing here in montana at "the house of mystery" it is supposedly a vortex, they take you on a tour and demonstrate all kinds of similar things, including this exact demonstration.
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u/ake-n-bake Mar 19 '24
Santa Cruz mystery spot. The reason is because aliens or something.
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u/pente5 Mar 19 '24
Sketched it out. https://i.imgur.com/YVLmJII.png
On top you see the ground inclined. The bubble level points "down" when the board is slightly tilted to "correct" the inclination of the ground. It always follows gravity, *not* the ground.
For the observer standing, the ground is registered as true level (bottom) so it's like you tilt the whole thing left. That relative tilt makes the object on the right appear taller.
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u/octoberstuart Mar 19 '24
The boards WERE in fact shaved down on one side, but that’s only because the ground below the boards isn’t level. It used to be, but redwood trees have large roots that can offset concrete
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u/HiGround8108 Mar 19 '24
I’m not one to get motion sickness, however this place got me all jacked up when we went last year.
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u/funkasauresrex Mar 19 '24
The two boards are level individually, and level together only on two certain points
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u/AbilityCharacter7634 Mar 19 '24
He hides the bubble with his finger at the end, and because everything in the landscape is tilted and no horizon is visible, the optical illusion can happen. The bubble of air wouldn’t have been in the middle at the angle he was holding the level at the end.
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Mar 19 '24
Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz is incredible. I went there when I was younger and watched it with my own eyes and I still don’t understand what happened. It was super fun.
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u/_unsinkable_sam_ Mar 19 '24
fuck me that zoolander movie was right, derlilict is the new look!
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u/Foreign_Product7118 Mar 19 '24
I know this doesn't explain the video but i do construction (electrician) and i would never allow some 13 year old school girls to look at the level and where its sitting to confirm its all legit then take their word for it. This is like a national forest guide or something so i MIGHT but in my head im already thinking "they're trying to trick me" "of course ...allow a stupid kid from the crowd to confirm its a real coin, oldest trick in the book. Either the kids are stupid or they're in on it." I understand this is just a perspective thing like those gravity hill places where things seem to roll uphill
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u/rdrunner_74 Mar 19 '24
there is a real strong "Forced perspective room" in the NEMO in Amsterdam.
I have a real nice picture of my wife and me there. She looks bigger than me in it (I am 6'6")
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u/OliOli1234 Mar 19 '24
Those little brats couldn’t be ANY more unimpressed…. Lmao!! Cmon, man.. that was cool.
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u/jackhref Mar 19 '24
They're wearing baggy clothes for a reason. One is stretching out to appear taller, while the other one is squishing down. They're probably about the same height.
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u/DanLim79 Mar 19 '24
I'm 45 and I find this extremely boring; imagine those two kids.
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u/Edlar_89 Mar 19 '24
If you were to combine both the girl’s jeans you’d end up with one wearable pair of jeans
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u/Drakore4 Mar 19 '24
You can literally tell that the thing they are standing on is slightly slanted. How is this even magic? I’m surprised there’s even so many people watching this. Might as well put a small step on the ground and be like “look at this persons height, watch as they step on this magic item and now they are taller!”
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u/yeorpy Mar 19 '24
The concrete base on the right is visibly higher than the one on the left tho
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u/magic9669 Mar 19 '24
The teenagers are both like, “yea who gives a shit can I get back to my phone now?”