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espresso	Mar 26 2009, 05:03 PM
Posts: 124 Group: Skeptics Member #1,078 Joined: 03/05/09	Craig Ranke CIT Mar 26 2009, 04:18 PM tuatara Mar 26 2009, 03:52 PM Hand waving again espresso? Ever stood under a low flying large plane? Ever found a perspective issue confuse you as to whether it is to your left or right? Exactly. It doesn't matter where you are. There are no perception issues when trying to determine where a plane flew in relation to where you are standing. You're kidding, right? Where is the evidence supporting that? Or is it just your belief? Are you saying that if someone sees a plane fly by at hundreds of miles per hour, they should have no trouble determining how far away that plane is from them, and how far it is away from objects on the ground? If your reasoning was sound, we wouldn't need goal posts in football or foul poles in baseball, because there would be no perception issues that might make someone think that the ball went on the wrong side of the demarcation. (And those objects are going a small fraction of the speed that plane was!) Quote: The highway analogy is perfect. Everyone on the highway who saw the plane knew which side of the highway it flew. The fact that all of them headed towards DC said it was on their left is PROOF beyond a reasonable doubt (to reasonable people) that it was north of the highway. Being on a highway and determining whether a plane is flying left or right parellel to the highway is different than seeing a plane go across your field of vision and attempting to determine if the plane flew to the left or the right over the top of a single building.


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