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1 posted on 01/06/2006 3:07:04 PM PST by blam
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What's to understand? I look in a mirror, I see myself. I tilt it, I see something else.


2 posted on 01/06/2006 3:08:48 PM PST by mcg1969
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They break every time I see one. I don't understand this phenomena.


3 posted on 01/06/2006 3:08:59 PM PST by RTINSC (Being Offended is the Natural Consequence of Leaving Your Home...)
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Blah, blah, blah. What is the point? Glad my tax money didn't pay for this silliness.


4 posted on 01/06/2006 3:09:03 PM PST by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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"Psychologists at the University of Liverpool have found that people still find it difficult to understand how mirrors work."


I know my cat hasn't figured them out


5 posted on 01/06/2006 3:09:07 PM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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Ever notice that when you look in a mirror, right is left, but up isn't down? Why is that?


6 posted on 01/06/2006 3:10:13 PM PST by Billthedrill
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If "left" is "right", and "right" is "left" in a mirror, why isn't "up" "down", and "down" "up"?
9 posted on 01/06/2006 3:12:14 PM PST by Semi Civil Servant (The Main Stream Media: Al-Qaeda's most effective spy network.)
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"Humans Do Not Understand Mirror Reflections, Say Researchers"

Obviously they didn't test any Democrats, who understand mirrors and smoke very well.

10 posted on 01/06/2006 3:13:17 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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Humans Do Not Understand Mirror Reflections, Say Researchers

These will help...

 


11 posted on 01/06/2006 3:13:20 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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They failed to recognise that the image on the surface of the mirror is half the size of the observer because a mirror is always halfway between the observer and the image that appears inside the mirror.

So if see myself in a mirror from six inches away, I'll be the same size as if I'm 40 feet away? Exactly half my size? How about if I'm 16 miles away?

Still half sized?

14 posted on 01/06/2006 3:15:10 PM PST by Dog Gone
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I understand that birds think there's another open area ahead of them when they fly into a mirror, but why do they want to smash their head into that other bird?


15 posted on 01/06/2006 3:15:26 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Also just in, 50% of the population is below average in intelligence!

;-D

16 posted on 01/06/2006 3:16:37 PM PST by FierceDraka ("Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." - Capt. Mal Reynolds)
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This gets really funny in television.

For weathercasters (because we don't use scripts) the teleprompter video is switched to 'On the Air" mode in which you see what the viewer sees.

This works out fine until you use that image to straighten your tie. You move to the left and the teleprompter image goes the opposite way.

This would be a lot easier to get used to if I'd never used a mirror which is, of course the opposite of this.

Shoulda' consulted my parakeet...who is the world authority on mirrors.

Old TV joke:

How do you tell if Bill Clinton has been using your dressing room?

Answer: If there are lip-prints all over the mirror.

17 posted on 01/06/2006 3:17:35 PM PST by capt. norm (Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.)
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I know that they waste studies all the time, but this one takes the cake. I can't even believe that this was made into a study much less a story. I have not read any posts yet, but I can't wait.


20 posted on 01/06/2006 3:19:35 PM PST by napscoordinator
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It's not really a parallel universe?


23 posted on 01/06/2006 3:23:14 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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Oh, jeez. What I don't understand is wasting all that time and money. Brits don't understand mirrors or toothbrushes.

Mr. M's dog can't figure out mirrors, but then the dog also tries to climb trees.


25 posted on 01/06/2006 3:24:47 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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What is this 'reflected image' they talk about?

People can see their reflections in those things?!

30 posted on 01/06/2006 3:29:48 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith (There's an open road from the cradle to the tomb.)
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"The black paper between a mirror
Breaks my heart that I can't go"

- Captain Beefheart


32 posted on 01/06/2006 3:32:42 PM PST by P.O.E. (Liberalism is the opiate of the elite classes.)
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I suppose nobody considered the possibility that the test subjects were fine with the mirrors, but can't speak Liverpoolian?


35 posted on 01/06/2006 3:42:04 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (© 2006, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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And as soon as this anomoly is corrected, ALL WILL BE WELL WITH THE WORLD!

It needed to be said.


36 posted on 01/06/2006 3:42:06 PM PST by lawdude (LIEberals/socialists make up facts and history as they go!)
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Mirror scene:

http://mp.danwho.net/index.php?id=ducksoup_mirror


38 posted on 01/06/2006 3:44:52 PM PST by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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