Meet The Most Confidently Incorrect Man on The Internet
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Yes, this week on Tinfoil Tuesday, we look at an Instagram account called indigoc12, and he has made some staggering discoveries, all from one colossal misunderstanding.
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He never travels far from his house because the roads away from there get smaller and smaller until they get too small to drive on.
😂😂😂😂😂
You’re mistaking me for someone else. Obviously.
@@ptgr12 Anyone who spent all that time making a video to disprove something they couldn't comprehend definitely cant travel too far from home due to roads getting to skinny. 🤣🤣🤣 I love the supreme confidence while disproving.........absolutely nothing. SMH.
😂😂 💀
Funny thing is that the bit of road I'm driving on always stays the same width but the road in the distance ahead of me, and strangely behind me according to what I see in the mirror, is always much smaller. But I am driving a TARDIS I got second hand from Dr Who.
The other odd thing is sometimes I arrive before I departed, and sometimes I can see myself departing after I arrive. WTF is that about.
My new law: if someone on YT shows his explanation filmed in a garage and starts with "This is just common sense" there's 100% chance we'll see something stupid.
Well, to be fair, it is common sense, because common sense is not what it used to be.
OR you are about to see someone's kill room.
@@RetroMonkee You think people in the past weren't absolutely stupid and believing in conspiracy theories? The only difference now is that any idiot can spread misinformation to any other idiots on the globe, not just local idiots.
@@RetroMonkee the biggest problem with "Common Sense" is that it ain't common at all...
He's recording video in portrait mode. Not much common sense there.
When he showed the picture of the lasers pointing at the moon, I measured the image on my computer monitor and it was only about 7 inches. So the moon is only 7 inches away from earth.
Checkmate round earthers!
now try again on your phone, and average the result. This is science!
You're not safe anymore dude.
Inches? what proper scientist works in Inches. It sounds much more impressive if you say 177.8mm!
Honestly I thought that's where this was headed
On my phone the moon is about a thumb's width away from earth. Going to hospital now, my thumb is swollen to 380Mm thick. 😮
I took a nice photo of railroad tracks near my home. I used a protractor and the Pythagorean theorem to determine that they are 75 miles apart where I was standing.
@@Velocentric perfect comment. No notes.
Yep, you got it. Those laser beams are essentially parallel. There's no 90 degree angle between them anywhere. Dan estimates the angle as 0.00015 degrees. Their apparent convergence is of course caused by the same perspective effect as the tracks.
@@davidg4288 In fact you could get 180 degree (APPARENT) angle between the beams depending on where you stand between the two sources.
Well described
@@davidg4288 They were both aiming at the same target, so there IS convergence. Perspective is still the cause of the much wider appearing angle due to the location of the camera in relation to the two sources, though.
Why do so many of these people have such a problem comprehending angles, perspective and scale? It's maddening.
When people say "How stupid can you be?" why do flerfs take it as a challenge?
Question: how stupid can you be?
His answer: yes.
It's more than a challenge for flerfs. They've taken it upon themselves to turn it into a full-blown contest to find out which one is the dumbest.
Your inability to understand my content isn’t reason enough to call yourself a flerf.
@@ptgr12 No need to understand your content. You described an image as a laser beam being projected to the moon and returning back to Earth at an obtuse angle. If you had read the caption, you would have noticed that these are actually two different laser beams both pointed at the moon from the same facility. The facility is located on a 210 acre plot of land, or approximately a third of a square mile. But fuck it, lets call the distance between the two lasers a mile. Round up for the best case scenario. That's 5280 feet. That distance then becomes the hypotenuse of the isosceles right triangle you described in your video.
That puts the length of the two laser beams at 3,733 feet each. Cut the triangle in half to find its height (I'll spare you a second round of Pythagoras) and you find that the moon is 2,640 feet off the ground. That's half a mile, Jim. Planes have to fly over it to reach cruising altitude. And if the angle is even more obtuse than 90, that puts the moon even closer to the ground. I'm amazed it hasn't clipped the Burj Khalifa yet.
@@ptgr12 Out of curiosity, did you report my response? For some reason it just vanished into the ether. Which is a shame, because I put a lot of effort into constructing a logical rebuttal rather than just pointlessly mocking you like everyone else seems to be doing.
Kinda pleasantly surprised he remembered to get the square root for the actual C answer, was expecting him to forget that part of the equation.
same
Me too!
Haha was thinking the same thing
That was a surprise.
That he couldn’t understand the premise of the photo, not at all.
😂😂😂😂
I visited the guy's Instagram account and found the 15 videos this comes from. Everyone in the comments is telling him what he did wrong, and he insults them, curses them out, and acts exasperated at their ignorance. He's really toxic.
An account claiming to be him is actually doing that in this comment section now too
And that's the reason I never access any of these muppets' sites!
No, really?!?!?!? A TOXIC flerf. How utterly unexpected!
"All these people explaining what I did wrong only proves I'm right!"
@TheRenofox You really don't mind embarrassing yourself do you. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Watching him stumble through that math was excruciating. Dude, just multiply 384,000 by the square-root of 2(or if you don't mind being off by a fraction of a percent, by 1.414) The isosceles right triangle is one of the easiest to solve for. And as far as the rest is concerned, I just looked across the room at my coffee table and noticed that the corners aren't square, it is obviously shaped like a parallelogram and not a rectangle. I am shocked that I never noticed this shoddy workmanship before!
And amazingly enough he did not know that simple trick, in fact just heard of the Pythagorean theory, and cannot even pronounce it because it is so new to him; and yet, he still thinks he knows better than the people actually shining a laser up to the moon, and even goes against simple common sense. Like their maths must be wrong and not his, that they must be lying to us all; a kind of hubris that really is an incredible work of incredulity, and it demonstrates these people's blindness to truth and intelligence.
I wonder what he would say if we told him he's guessing an angle in 2-dimensions that exists in 3 dimensions? Looking at a picture and assuming you know exactly what direction the beam is
He had Alexa right there, pretty sure he can directly tell it to calculate that hypotenuse lmao
Dunning Kruger effect - They don't even know how much they don't know
Nobody knows how much they don't know. That is *literally* unknowable.
@alkestos I know how much they don't know
They are too stupid to realize that they are stupid.
It's ironic I can never remember the name while trying to explain it to someone, that's when I realize what side I stepped into and stop talking.
@@ptgr12 How could anybody do this when you fail to understand even elementary Geometry. You could not possibly comprehend such an explanation.
“And the amount of science people think they understand but they obviously don’t.” Truer words have never been spoken.
X-actly. It doesn't matter how he got there, he was right in the end.
I’m confused. You’re not mocking me. That’s a pleasant surprise. They are absolutely clueless..👍
@@ptgr12
The cognitive dissonance is staggering.
The irony ... when I read that, I couldn't not facepalm. Oh, the irony! 😂 And doesn't even realise when he's being mocked. Happy New Year to me, indeed! 🎁
Can't wait for the gentleman to prove rail tracks are not parallel using this same "it looks like" math
Он сможет доказать по рельсам, при определенном ракурсе, что шпалы длиной более 100 километров.
Interesting how most conspiracy theories originate with it looks like.
I think these people are missing the right perspective. Or any kind of perspective...
@@Evgeniy__Kuzmin а поезда выдумка, потом их нет картинки.
@@Evgeniy__Kuzmin 🤣🤣🤣
When flerf uses term "common sense", you immediately know that the utter nonsense will follow
They're the kind of guy who thinks that if The Layman doesn't understand it, then there's no way ANYONE would...
and he considers himself an Everyman
Just goes to show there is nothing common about common sense
Was just gonna type that lol
"common cents" - So goes the grift
Actually, you are sure that the highest qualification obtained is baptism
When science deniers use the term common sense, and "it's obvious", they are already in trouble.
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
@@ptgr12 I have spent a lot of time trying to get information about the original source photo and article and failed. However, I found many vidoes about the Goddard LASER ranging facility. I finally found a video showing the LASER being bounced off a target, and being received nearby. You can see the "transmitter" and receiver in this video. This is not new technology, and NASA is not the only group who does this. I also want to mention I have worked with satellite data, which clearly shows that they orbit the earth in a predictable way. The math aligns with the observed locations of the satellites. The math using something called a TLE (Two Line Element) describing the key parameters of the orbit. Gravity, per Newton's laws is also critical to their orbits working as advertised. I should note that one of the older satellites up in orbit is called Lincon Calibration Sphere-1 for MIT Lincoln Laboratories. And was specifically put up there to be able to calibrate RADAR. And is still used. Another example of things working they they are supposed to. Anyways, here's a link to a video showing LASER ranging at work at Goddard's facility. Link - ruclips.net/video/9rvw9zSuIRo/видео.html
“Common sense is useless to understand reality” Brian Cox, The human Universe. One of my favorite quotes.
Happy new year,Dan 🎇🎆🎉
Absolutely. Reality is that trying to use common sense to understand reality is almost certain way to arrive at the wrong conclusions.
Cox, the guy who was 'scientific advisor' on a movie about a trip to the Sun? Sounds like that old joke about the Irish[sic] expedition that 'planned to go at night'. Oh hang on, the director was Irish. It all fits!
@DJF1947 I am not familiar with the movie of which you write, but no matter how much the movie got wrong, remember one thing: scientific advisors for a movie are often ignored, especially when the scientific advisor tells the movie makers that every scientific "fact" in the script is wrong.
@@John_Smith_60 The movie was Sunshine. And my point was that no reputable physicist would have had anything to do with it. Don't forget that Cox got into the media business because he started out as a member of a pop group that fronted for the alleged war-criminal Tony Blair. BTW, we can't even go straight to the Sun; it is necessary to go via Jupiter.
@@ptgr12 Flagged for harassment.
"These, are small. But the ones out there, are far away! Small, far away!"
ted you know the way your eyes sometime play tricks on you? ruclips.net/video/MMiKyfd6hA0/видео.html
Thank you for your Father Ted Talk.
You mean, this.
ruclips.net/video/dS12p0Zqlt0/видео.html
Tip o' the hat for the Father Ted reference. Drink!
Creaky approves
“I did some calculations in my head” 😂…. “Alexa, what’s this number x2?” 🤣😂🤣
Exactly, stood there and asked alexa, Another instant of them not understanding something and saying something different, Like dan said they think we live in a 2D world.
@@Fabulos1 you can clearly see the second laser is coming from somewhere nearby anyway, it’s utter craziness
It´s one side times 1,72......
It would have been better if Alexa had said "Not this $#!+ again". Thanks, CC's wife.
@@rogermccaslin5963 yeah 🤣🤣🤣
this is a really good demo of how crepuscular rays "appear" to be diverging even though the beams are virtually parallel.
THEY ONLY LOOK PARALLEL FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE, IMAGINE THE PERSPECTIVE IF YOU WERE THE RAY OF LIGHT...
@@leonIdas002 Vrooooooooooooom. Instructions unclear. Am now a particle and wave.
Not quite parallel the beam diameter is about 500 metres at the moon and back on earth it will be bigger than that. They then use a telescope as the collector but it still only gets a small part of part of the returned beam.
Hey Dan, real quick, I love your videos! You probably single handedly got me through covid, since I've had it about 3 or 4 times. I spent the entire time in bed, watching your video, having a good laugh at the flerfs, and above all, appreciating the science lessons that come with it! So thank you for what you do, and keep up all the good work, you're killing it!
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
I laughed when Alexa said, "147 is a number," because I thought Alexa was a sassy bch. When Dan acknowledged this point, I lost control. Well played, Dan.
Oh gawd, imagine him sitting down at the table next to you in the pub.
You know he doesn't leave this at home when he goes out for the night.
You reckon they let him out at night? 😮
You reckon he's not been barred from the pubs?
Reference Alvey Singer in "Annie Hall" in the Marshal McLuhan cinema queue scene!
Goes out??
How would you know what I talk about when I go to the pub? The next time you have a pint, time your next one so it takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to drink, and then tell yourself that the Sun’s light taking 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth is a logical thought.
Perspective is something flat earthers continually fail to correctly understand in their desire to deny the real shape of the earth..
Way too complicated a concept 😅
Whenever something doesn't work on flat earth, it is "perspective", and when it actually is perspective, it is CGI.
Yep. I love the
fact they think there is an “up” and “down” in relation to how the earth occupies space and the fact that they ask “why doesn’t the water fall off?” with a straight face… 🤦 😂
Or when they say “gravity isn’t real! The earth is just traveling “up” at 9.8 m/s. …..like “up” in relation to what?!?! 😂. I don’t understand, do they think the earth is sitting on their gods desk or something? I don’t see how they qualify it as traveling “up”, in relation to what? And then that gets into the fact that we would be traveling at the same speed so relative motion would mean that we should be floating around if “gravity doesn’t exist”. Existing with a flat earthers mind must be tedious
And yet, at the same time it’s what they claim to base their theories on.
@dylanpatterson7149 didnt know it was possible but I even saw an Australian flat earther asking about upside down pictures even though it seems a good chunk of flat earthers don't even think australia is real because it destroys their flat earth map with is distorted scale.
How about a little bit of, "Alexa, what shape is the Earth?"
It isn't round. It's roundish, kind of oblong. Flat earth proven lol
@@logangodofcandy oblate spheroid. If you're going to "disprove" use the correct terms 😂
(I hope you get this is supposed to be a joke. Also sorry for ruining it with this bit. Gotta cover bases in case of flerfer encounter 😅)
@@swizzamane8775all your bases are belong to us!
I did exactly that and it gave the correct answer. I then asked if the earth is flat and the answer was impressive. No, BTW.
@@PedroConejo1939 That actually is interesting information. Since models like Alexa usually rely on a database of info that is most commonly used, referenced, etc., information. Meaning, there is NOT enough information for Alexa to feel confident with any other answer, than the ones you received 😁
Like Monica Gellar says "If it's not a Right Angle it is a wrong Angle" lol
Video start at 1:54
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when he turned the camera and a whole damn chalk board wall was there, i knew this was going to be wild
Quite a trip, wasn´t it really??? Rgr
My first thought was "why do these people always have a chalk board in their garden?"
@@jay70328 Because there's no room for it in the house after he installed the supercomputer.
With a load of chalk dust on the floor! He’s been calculating
Wild is good as long as the content is correct. I can assure you the content is correct.
I was quite surprised that he even knew what a square root was, considering that he had never even heard of the pie thegorian theorem.
The guys idea of a square root ,is a McDonald's kiddies box .🤭
he didn't Alexa did!
Pythagorean*
TBF, I've never heard of the "pie thegorian" theorem, either.
@@FranklinFranklin1234 I knew someone would do it. There always has to one.
HAHAHAHA!!!That guy was HILARIOUS!!
Please please show more of his "pie tha gorious theory!! Comedy GOLD!!
It´s " Plyhagoras ", innit??? Rgr
The Pytho-gorian theorem was first invented when the barbarian warrior *Pythagor,* while invading distant lands and crushing his enemies wearing his notorious snake-headed helm, noticed two nearly parallel lines and said, "Oh look! A right angle."
He should've asked his Alexa how to pronounce such a phonetically challenging word! Especially when making videos about solving the worlds problems.
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
@@ptgr12 Sheez, Stop yelling! No we can't give you a picture in the comments and we don't know you from someone elsewhere on the web. You do understand how these discussions work, right?
IDK how good your visio-spatial skills are but picture you're standing on railroad tracks looking at the point they "meet". Now crouch down and see how the angle widens. Now lay down and see how the lines can form a 180 angle when your eyes are between the tracks looking from on the plane (or level) of the ground.
When your eyes are above that plane, you can form _any_ angle you want depending upon how high above the plane of the RR tracks you are.
Likewise the two lasers share a plane. It's just not one that's laying flat on the ground. It's tilted up at some angle above you. Like you're looking up a tilted glass surface. As you step away from that plane of glass, you change the apparent (visual) angle to any angle you want. Snap the photo.
Not only do I want to see the other one, I want this guy to become a regular on the channel.
The fact that he had to look up the Pythagorean theorem is the saddest thing about this whole video.
Edit: I stand corrected. The butchering of the application was worse.
that reminds me of several flattards who think that "8 inches per mile squared" IS the Pythagorean theorem!
i retorted, "they are too dumb to understand the difference between a circle and a triangle."
Seen The Wizard of Oz? Did you hear the scarecrow state the theorem when he got his brain. Did you even notice?
@@DJF1947 i noticed that he got it WRONG.
@DJF1947 to bad you spend your time trying to be clever about stupid ideas. He clearly has no clue how to apply what he found.
Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure what the fuck you're trying to say. I'm not sure if you're trying to claim that I straw manned him or if you are saying that dumb people can just repeat things without comprehension (suggesting what?). What I'm saying is that with such a simple and ubiquitous formula, you should know how to apply it without having to look it up. For example someone making a goddamn video on RUclips about it trying to prove fucking NASA wrong! It's not difficult. It's probably a failure of public schools, but once you hit adulthood, it's hard to blame that on a poor education. It's due to a lack of genuine curiosity or interest in actually knowing how shit works. He is interested in people believing he knows what he's doing, not actually knowing. Like Trump, all appearance, no substance. . A curious person would say hey "if NASA's got a different answer, I bet I'm wrong. let's figure out how." Not immediately make a fucking video to tell everybody how I outsmarted NASA.
You mean the Pytha-Goreeon theorem.
As Einstein said, "Only 2 things are infinite: the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the Universe".
This man proves him right.
I know you're just making a joke, but it's never been proven that he ever said that. It seems fairly unlikely since he never believed the universe is infinite.
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
@ptgr12 you're wrong. It's okay to be wrong. You asking people to recreate the laser experiment is complete nonsense. Most of us don't have access to lasers that are capable of performing this experiment. Do a bit more research and you'll see where you went wrong.
@@ptgr12take a look at a picture of a road. As you look in the distance the road seems to get smaller.
Imagine that road being 1km wide and you standing on the right edge of that road. In the distance, the 2 lines seem to join. Due to perspective, they will seem to join at an angle.
Hope that helps.
@ It’s all about perspective.
This man’s research reminds me of Yonderland’s detective Mountebank’s methods:
"The victim is a grown up or large child in his late teens to early eighties. The sole of his left shoe is worn on the instep, suggesting that he likes pina coladas and getting caught in the rain, hates geese and will not drive in reverse for religious reasons. His left arm bends in the middle and the condition has spread to his knee which combined with that cloud, something else and the fact that I like those biscuits with jam in the middle can mean only one thing. This man is selling poisonous mead, and he is the killer!"
Definitely not me. You’re mistaking me for someone else.
I'm free-wildered and gabberflast!
Nice "Escape" (Pina coladas/getting caught in the rain) reference! +10points!
Also similar to the hilarious logic used to convict the "witch" in Monty Python's Holy Grail.
Something along the lines of witches burn.
Also wood burns.
Witches burn because they are made of wood!
Bridges are made of wood, but building a bridge out of the suspect as a test is not logical because bridges are also made of stone.
But wood floats, and so does a duck (after several hilariously incorrect suggestions from the ignorant mob).
So if the suspect is a witch she must weigh the same as a duck.
She does in fact weigh the same as a duck according to the town's public scale!
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
If Ignorance is bliss, he must be the happiest man alive 🙄😔
Fantastic episode. Pure gold, as were the comments all. Can't leave without mentioning the size of those shoes. Working off the image on my phone, I did some pythagorianist calculations and estimated his feet are 20 billion inches long, 40 billion if I zoom in.
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
Did he make this video as part of the application for a science teacher job in a US bible-belt school?
i find it funny that for all the times they yell "perspective" that when perspective is actually something to account for they don't do it.
You beat me to it . . . !
The Moon as seen from Earth subtends 0.49 degrees on the sky, on average.
@@Canada_Dominium What has that to do with anything? The lasers are supposed to be pointing at the same spot, so the Moon's apparent width doesn't matter. And two laser beams can point at one spot in all possible angles in theory depending on where you place them, even 90° even though this would of course not be possible from Earth.
@@gordonbrinkmann The beams are from two different lasers within the Goddard Space Center. The apparent angle is a perspective effect. The actual angle between the beams will be incredibly small, in the order of one arc second (2km subtended at lunar distance).
@@gordonbrinkmann The perceived angle depends on where you as observer are standing. If that photo had been taken standing directly in between the two lasers then the angle would be 180 degrees. The further away the smaller the angle.
I don't think you could get a better demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's embarrassing.
Unfortunately, you’ll end up realising that all of the Dunning Kruger is you. Your inability to understand my content, means absolutely nothing at all. The Dunning Kruger will be yours to keep.
@@ptgr12😂
@@ptgr12 Dude, face reality. You are stupid! That's all there is to it. That's not an insult. Its a fact.
@@ptgr12 I see.
@@ptgr12 You should get an education. No not an indoctrination, an actual education.
Given the chalk dust on the ground, that guy spends hours raving on those boards !? lol 🤣
He finally got it right, didn´t he?? What a waste.... Rgr
Or possibly eating the chalk when he runs low on lead paint chips.
I had a brief look at his content and you're spot on. Most of his rants are split into 4 or 5 parts they're that long. I would not advise looking at them, the idiocy on display inflicts mental damage 😂
@@jeepliving1 I'm sure the crayons must taste better ...? Or are those for dessert?
There needs to be a law that says you need a proper education before making "scientific" or "mathematical" claims in videos for RUclips or TikTok.
Like the education that has you believing a few atomic clocks were out by a few hundred billionths of a second? That education? And of course you believe it.
It's crazy the amount of people not understanding how our universe works. Glad I found you again, spotted you on Facebook and got you subbed again. Been a bit over 5 years since I've watched you but looking forward to watching your great content. I also think it would be interesting to see his interpretation of the sun not emitting light.
The Python theory involves doing a funny walk while getting slapped by a dead fish, something this guy could do with.
Ah, Dr. Montgomery's Python theory.
The Ministry of Funny Walks 😂
That was fabulous. I really did laugh out loud.
“I did the calculations in my head.”
There’s no way on earth he did any calculations in his head. He can’t even add simple numbers on his board.
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
@ Why are you shouting at me? Ya bellend. 🤣 You should listen to Dan. Your whole video is based on you making a mistake. Have another look at it yourself.
How ironic! Castigating people for not understanding when not understanding science.
He has been in Dan's comment section replying to people!
Says you? You obviously understand wrong science. RECREATE THE ANGLE FOR ME. SHOW ME A VIDEO CLIP OF YOU EXPLAINING IT. THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. SO STFU.
People that don't understand simple math and science should not dabble in either, they might hurt themselves.
I'm really surprised that he didn't just reduce the numbers with scientific notation. :)
Why does he trust alexa (and all the technology underlying it) but doesn’t trust science?
Right... Alexa is controlled by NASA, like the ice wall🤣🤣🤣
To be fair, he's only using Alexa as a calculator... but someone reallly should mention to him that Alexa is always listening and that Blue Origin is also working with NASA. Just to sow a little seed into his conspiracy-fuelled mind 😀
Because he doesn't trust calculators?
Because he could blame Alexa if he gets the information wrong.
I think he is moving in the right direction and even if he used Pythagoras theorem he is starting to investigate trigonometry . It only takes a bit of a shift to recognise he has three sides of a triangle and to buy a Zeuss book to find the Sine rule and he will be able to calculate all the angles as he has the side lengths . He is learning and that is a giant leap toward being able to make meaningful calculations , whether he uses Alexa or a calculator , or maybe even a good old fashioned book of Log tables , although a slide rule might be a bit ambitious .😜
Look at those train tracks! They've been laid at an angle to each other!!
Someone forgot about perspective didn't they...
@MGCMorph Nah, not a problem. Everyone knows that trains get smaller the further away they are...
I'm a Demonstrable Realist, and it's clear that train tracks actually converge in the distance. I'm not fooled by Big Train, I know that they're just using those fake tracks to hide their levitation technology.
This is why Genius Elon hates trains, you all just don't see it yet
@@veivoli lol
Flerfs love to talk about perspective; unfortunately they don't recognize it when they actually see it.
@@paulag7634 This one is incredible right...? They ALWAYS blab on about perspective then this one literally "90 degrees" stabbing him in the fact and he doesn't feel it. Incredible!
That video is actually really important and should be archived in full. It's historical evidence (and staring us right in the face). It brilliantly displays Dunning-Kruger in real time. With the absolute banger at the end there with "and the amount of science people think they understand, but they obviously don't" to just top it all off.
I can add that here for you. Like a personal touch.
The amount of science lovers, who think they understand the science, but they don’t, is off the scales.
You keep the Dunning Kruger. This is it right here. It’s on you. Not me.
Your inability…..you know how it goes.
@@ptgr12 Don't tell me your the idiot who made that video?!??!!
@@Robert08010 Yes he is, he is replying to every comment. Desperate for attention
@@Robert08010 he absolutely is 😂
@@ptgr12 my inability to look at a picture and completely make things up based on what I (incorrectly) assume I think to see? When you make assumptions... you know how it goes.
I live very close to Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory. The lasers are, at most, 300 feet from each other. They come from buildings that are basically right across the road from each other. The blob of light in the background is DC to the southwest from the facility. It seems it never occurred to that guy that if the other laser came from somewhere far away, it wouldn't be visible to anyone, let alone the photographer.
Wait until this guy discovers railroad tracks.
Some people start a wood shop in their garage, other people restore cars. This guy makes a conspiracy den.
9:07 "Here's says a lot, without actually saying much."
"The sound and the fury... signifying nothing."
For future reference, the Shakespeare quote is "Full of sound and fury ...."
I had to memorize it for English class. 😁
Ah yes...the Monty Python Theory.
Are you suggesting the moon is a witch? I know it looks like it is floating in the air but....
@@martinconnelly1473 Not sure about the Moon, but that rabbit over there is looking my way.
@@martinconnelly1473If you then drown the moon in a lake you can use rakes to recover it.
@@martinconnelly1473 He may be suggesting that no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Incidentally, Liege, we now know the Earth to be banana shaped. Take that, flerfs!
It’s like watching my bi polar ex trying to explain why I’m so selfish and she’s so perfect.
-I really don’t mean to diminish mental health difficulties. I have a bunch myself. Just felt like venting and trying to find something to chuckle about for a brief respite.
Once again, as a famous cartoon rabbit used to say, "What a maroon."
A wascally wabbit...?
I'm convinced Bugs Bunny cartoons were not written for kids. I love Bugs!!
A Flerf with a blackboard and chalk, let the fun begin!!🤣
"It's common sense"..... and then fails to demonstrate any. 🙄
from common sense to nonsense in about 3 seconds
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
He's only ever seen 'Pythagorean" written down, he's never heard it said out loud. Oh dear.
I think it's the other way around he have only seen people talk about it on YT and not written down.
If he'd heard it, he would pronounce it correct. He's sounding it out phonetically based on reading it, but not understanding the exceptions for pronunciation of loner words.
@@Vincent_Beers 'Correctly', not 'correct'. 'Loan-word', not 'loner word'. English not your mother-tongue?
As an astronomer I love watching flat earthers say everything I do is a lie
@@EricBurns1 that's not true
-every flerf
Huh, it is much worse to be a physicist. Everyone gets everything wrong!
I'M NOT A FLAT EARTHER, YOU FOOL.
@@ptgr12 How can you not understand the Moon's distance and orbital properties?
He has two cents of knowledge and attempts to cash it in for ten dollars.
I'm sure he thinks that math checks out
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
@@ptgr12 the moon is farrrrrr away...any angle from an orbiter to any two laser emitters on earth, with a target as far away as moon orbiter is, would be so small it's practically 0. Your first mistake is assuming a 90° right triangle...
@ LMAO!!! You can clearly see the angle. That is the angle. It doesn’t get smaller as it flies off into the distance.. 🤣🤣 You think that what looks like an angle of approximately 95-100 degrees from here, is going to change as it gets closer to the Moon??!! That IS the angle. It isn’t going to suddenly narrow as it gets closer to the orbiter (Ahem!). 🤣🤣 Talk about delusional and clueless. Understand the science??😂😂😂
@@ptgr12 yes, if a detector is receiving light from any two points, the further those points are from the detector the more acute the angle gets. SOH-CAH-TOA. Learn it.
I've personally participated in a laser range finding test at McDonald Peak Observatory in west Texas. We bounced a hugely powerful laser off of a reflector left by an Apollo crew. Although we saw a very bright green beam aimed at the moon, scientists had to use an array of very sensitive instruments to detect the odd photon of the proper wavelength coming back. Even with a very tight beam going out the spreading due to distance and dispersion in the atmosphere precludes a tight beam coming back
This theory is taught in grade 9 maths at school. Seems like he just discovered it and thinks himself enlightened. Dear oh dear.
9th grade? That is a bit late isn't it. By that point I teach my pupils sin, cos and tan.
@@BronzescorpionYeah I got it much earlier than that in the Midwest.
Maybe depends on which country you're from also? 9th grade seems about right or close enough if you're from Sweden.
@Bronzescorpion I guess it depends on where you live and where you went to school. In America, 9th grade is 13 to 14 years oldish. Some of the older students may hit 15 by the end of the year. When I was going to school back in the late 90s, I believe we learned it in middle school, grades 6-8, ages 10-13ish. But it wasn't regularly used until 9th grade when we started going heavey in to algebra. A lot of people probably forgot about it from before and mostly remember it from algebra class in 9th grade more.
@@lobban2 Well I am from Denmark, I don't think we are that dissimilar to Sweden, so I wouldn't be surprised if they are also introduced to it earlier than that.
The image is a problem of perspective. The relative position that it was taken from creates the illusion that the 2 lasers come to a right angle. That's all there is to it. He's indulged in all this other unnecessary math but he can't even comprehend that basic fact.
Someone should say to him " if you stand directly underneath the two beams and look up, what angle would you see"?
.."a straight line"?
"Correct! Do you get it now"?
@@MrChatternatter Sorry, what? A straight line by itself has no angle.
@@fakecrusader I think the point is that if the camera was placed directly between the two lasers, the beams would form a straight line with the moon in the middle. A bit like the railway tracks would form a straight line with the camera on a sleeper between them. 180 degrees angle at the moon/vanishing point.
@fakecrusader Precisely. The perceived angle changes depending on where you stand. Stand directly underneath, and the angle opens up to 180 degrees - a straight line.
This is the same reason Flerfs don’t understand how parallel crepuscular rays can appear to diverge or even converge.
OMG! This was so hard to watch!
He truly showed his intellect!
Dunning Kruger is alive and well!
It seems this guy never saw a photo of straight train rails. I was imidiately thinking about crepuscular rays and kinda expecting him to mention that according his observation the sun has to be couple of kilometers high.
If I produced a result that was seemingly 'horseradish' I'd be going to myself 'What did I get wrong?' and check to see if I got the values right in the first place.
Any reasonable person would do that. And ultimately throw their own thesis out the window.
Ahhh, but you're forgetting the foundational rule of scientific method, which is to establish your conclusion and then fabricate whatever evidence is needed to prove it correct.
Amazing level of self-confidence and steam. According to his own statement, he just learned Pythagorean concepts and freshly armed with limited math skills but not a single doubt that he may have misunderstood . Not him, nope. All others are obviously wrong.
HEY MOTOR MOUTH. WHY DON'T YOU PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS, AND GIVE ME A VISUAL DEMO ON HOW THE LASERS LEAVE EARTH AND ARRIVE LIKE THAT AT THE MOON. SHOW ME, SMARTASS.
3:21 oh lord he turned a shed into a flat earth dementia dudgeon
This guy: "I've never needed the pythagorean theorem"
Me when I was thirteen: "I need to figure out the height of this object that's a certain distance away on the ground and a certain distances away from me that I know. Oh, then I can figure out the height!"
fast forward 27 years and I've steadily used it numerous times throughout my life. This man is sad.
Even my late father understood the value of a 3, 4, 5 triangle for bricklaying work, and he was a practical man not an intellectual.
The 'boy-scout' solution was to use a basin of water. No math required.
I bet that happened, NOT. Recreate the angle for me, motormouth. Show me how to recreate the angle. Impress me.
@@ptgr12 No!
@@ptgr12 It was a constant problem we had to solve when I was in my teenage years because we played D&D and had flying characters, enemies, spells and an airship. We'd constantly use the Pythagorean theorem to figure out the distance between 2 objects. You know the height, you know the horizontal distance. It's always right triangle; the angle is always 90. It's a very simple "calculation."
Edit: I've also used trig to determine the height of something, but that was more for funzies than necessity. SOH CAH TOA!!!!!!
even parallel lines look to meet at an angle in the distance come on!!! I'm screaming internally
Watching this is a pure torture... This hurts my brain. Please, make it stop!
FOOL. CORRECT KNOWLEDGE DOES THAT TO IMBECILES.
@@ptgr12 Stop harassing people or lose your account.
I see where he went wrong, he was using a formula to find the angle of a pie, not a triangle
" Hi pie gorang ", or something like it you know... Rgr
WHY DON'T YOU SHOW ME HOW THAT ANGLE ENDS UP ON THE MOON, OR ORBITER? COME SMART ASS. A VISUAL DEMO PLEASE....SO STFU.
“The amount of science people think they understand but they obviously don’t.” Oh, the irony that makes me wanna buy the guy a mirror to look at himself
Pytha Goros would be rolling in his grave if he could hear this.
This reminds me of the HORRORS I had at the board in my math classes. I used to get SO much wrong...just like this goober.
He has obviously never seen a very long straight road across a desert...
The second laser is probably around 100 feet away. If it was just a few 'miles' away you wouldnt even see it!!
You can find a photo of both in the same image on Flickr, and they are fairly close.
Hey Dan. I’m visiting family in Scotland from Florida soon. Looking forward to visiting the UK in 2025. My British dad is my best friend.
I will say he went to school in England so he sounds more like you
He obviously put a great deal of thought into "How can I twist reality to debunk the globe?"
He needs Alexa to multiply 147B times two, when he’s laid it out on his chalkboard as an easy addition problem.
Yes😅 Alexa would have annoyed me rather
I wouldn’t write it twice
"I thought" Well that was your first mistake
Yes, I want to see the Pi video debunk! :D
I'm wondering if he actually meant "pie" as opposed to "π"...
If people with no common sense talk about common sense. It was painful to listen to his waffling! 😅
Flat earthers: "celestial obervations can not tell us anything about the shape of the earth"; next: "disproving the globe" with celestial observations.
Him saying he calculated it in his head when he can't even add up two numbers written out without asking a computer to do it. He didn't even stop to think whether he'd actually be able to see the other laser if it was aiming at the moon at a right angle to this one. Also, he didn't state where he thought that other laser was coming from, because at that kind of distance and angle, it wouldn't be on this planet, even a flat one! He's one of those kinds of mansplainer that you agree with just to get rid of them as quickly as possible, so unfortunately they end up thinking they're right about everything... No, you're just obnoxious.
5 minutes to learn pythagorus theory, a lifetime to learn to pronounce it 😂😂
(or spell it)
@irrelevant_noob yay, someone got it!!😂😂
Isn't it funny how they throw the word "perspective" in situations where it doesn't apply, and always fail to understand it when it would apply?
I suppose we should be grateful that no one ever explained scientific notation to him. Then he could get his wrong results much faster.
COULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE STEPS THESE TWO LASER BEAMS TAKE AS THEY'RE BOTH FIRED TO A LUNAR ORBITER, PLEASE? AS YOU KNOW, I HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR THAT THIS ANGLE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE. YOU MAKE FUN OF MY COMMENTS, AND SAY IT IS BASIC SCIENCE. SO, COULD YOU PLEASE HELP US ALL ALONG WITH A PHYSICAL VISUAL DEMONSTRATION, ON HOW THOSE LASERS END UP CREATING THAT ANGLE, SO FAR FAR AWAY. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
I like how he proves that "common sense" doesn't equate to "correct".
The Pythegorean Theorem says it all 😂
"I actually used pi...." 😂😂😂
Must do the other one, this guys confidence is being bounced off the moon to measure it's distance from earth.
The speed of stupidity is the only thing that can exceed the speed of light in a vacuum.
Since he's so brilliant, don't we represent a right angle with a "square" in the corner, as opposed to an arc?
Yes, a square is most common for a right angle, but that is such a nit, I'll ignore it.
Seriously?! That's the problem you have with this?
@@Alexander-gt4rc Tip of the iceberg...
@@mackerel1875 Oh, icebergs. You think that you understand icebergs? I bet that you understand icebergs just about as well as he understands the shape of the Earth. Motes and planks, motes and planks.
@@DJF1947 Do tell, Professor Iceberg... What astounding and astonishing tip about icebergs do you wish to impart on us today?
"Hey Alexa, how can I make a complete arse of myself on RUclips?"
Alexa - "hold my AI beer"
“Just be yourself!”
Alexa: "You're doing fine. Just keep doing what you do."
Alexa: "156 million is a number you stupid piece of shit" 😅
Alexa: "There are many ways to make a complete arse of yourself on RUclips, but the easiest way is to claim the Earth is flat."
"I looked at this and thought..." That was your first mistake which led to this entire debacle.
Imagine his terror if he looks at rail tracks from low to the ground, crouching between them. He's never getting on a train again
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. My stepfather worked there for some time after leaving GE, where he worked on the Apollo program. I think while at Goddard he worked on Landsat, and a few other projects. I'm not sure if I wish he was still alive to laugh at these people, or whether it's better he was spared from the nonsense.
Surely he's at rest in a better place, devoid of flerfer-nonsense.
Sounds like he was a pretty switched on guy 😔
I'M RIGHT HERE CALLING OUT ALL OF YOUR BS. YOU ARE CLUELESS. ALL OF YOU. RECREATE THE ANGLE FOR ME. SHOW ME HOW IT HAPPENS.
“It was only this morning that I proved that ….to myself” and no one else
He is very much like Pythagoras. Not the brilliant Pythagoras who practiced math and science to formulate his theorem but the later Pythagoras who decided to start a bizarre cult.
Most great thinkers of his day were caught up in some cult or another.
Also, for those who read the comment above and feel confused, it's the same Pythagoras at different ages, not two different people.
@@thassalantekreskel5742Well Newton was really big into the occult. I sense a pattern here!😁
I think it was pretty normal back then since science and religion wasn't split up so much. It was a way to gain knowledge
@@luiteoosting4580 hmmm i was thinking if you did science back then you were basically against the church or something thus needing to start a little group of "cultists" that are just sitting around doing math and stuff... lol
@@humanbean3 I meant the ideas of them weren't as seperate. You wouldn't learn math from someone and theology from another. The knowledge would come from the same person. That's why greek philosophers were so well rounded. But it makes it so that knowledge was very valuable and wouldn't be shared so easily. Cults were a way to initiate people and bind them to the goal of studying well. As cultist as they may have seen, they were more like the preversions of schools and churches nowadays. A place where one comes to seek knowledge
He even looks like the type of person who believes it’s impossible for them to be wrong and anything outside of what they do understand isn’t possible either.
I looked in the mirror this morning and concluded that my eyes must be several metres apart.