There is NO lake!

2013/12/19 05:03:35

craigb

Really. This is one of the best illusions I've seen in a while.

2013/12/19 09:17:58

UbiquitousBubba

You watched the Matrix again, didn't you?

2013/12/19 13:50:33

craigb

I'm just a misbehaving program.

2013/12/19 14:58:19

quantumeffect

I am assuming we are looking at a mirage. Yes, the atmosphere really is a lens through which we perceive the world around us, and I don’t mean that metaphorically. Objects are seen through a medium with a certain refractive index.

I was just watching something on the Smithsonian channel about a guy who researches the Titanic disaster. He postulates that it is atmospheric events (along with speed) that lead up to the ship hitting the iceberg. According to his hypothesis, there is a warm air mass sitting on top of a cold air mass … essentially, the opposite of what you would observe in the desert (and most likely what you are seeing in the mountain “lake” photo) … giving rise to a kind of mirage.

He goes on to hypothesize that the iceberg was hidden from the lookouts on the Titanic because of the differences in refractive indices of the air masses. Additionally, the passing ship did not identify it as the Titanic because its size is distorted when observing from a distance (an effect arising from the differences in refractive indices of the air masses).

2013/12/19 16:33:40

paulo

Who said that there was one ?

2013/12/19 17:33:54

quantumeffect

paulo
Who said that there was one ?

Nobody ... I am just guessing ... not sure what I am looking at. Maybe just deception by the angle of the photo.

In any event, the "reverse mirage" (my term) hypothesis to explain why the lookouts don't see a missive iceberg is a really fascinating interpretation of events.

2013/12/19 17:54:51

paulo

quantumeffect
paulo
Who said that there was one ?

Nobody ... I am just guessing ... not sure what I am looking at. Maybe just deception by the angle of the photo.

In any event, the "reverse mirage" (my term) hypothesis to explain why the lookouts don't see a missive iceberg is a really fascinating interpretation of events.

Wasn't arguing or even responding to your post - my comment was in reply to the OP/thread title

2013/12/19 18:06:52

yorolpal

Looks like a concrete wall to me.

2013/12/19 19:08:49

soens

>...the Titanic disaster. He postulates that it is atmospheric events (along with speed) that lead up to the ship hitting the iceberg.

Or maybe it was just the rudder pointed in the wrong direction??....

2013/12/21 10:01:10

soens

There is NO lake!

... sayeth the naysayers and disbelievers.

The lake is there! If you believe it with every fiber of your being (and maybe a few from someone else's being just in case that's not enough) and hope and pray and do a lake dance (if there is such a dance), it will be there.

There is NO lake!

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