Venus and camera stabilizing

Why don't you do the experiment yourself?

Instead of whining and complaining about it, try to prove that your amazing iphone, or whatever you have, doesn't do the same thing as Mick West's camera.

Previously, if you were asked "is that point of light in the video moving, relative to the tree?", I'm sure you would say "yes", based on the video footage (which, as we know, you always accept without question).

Why the sudden change now, MR? Is it because you know who made this video and you just don't like the guy, so therefore you want to invent excuses and try to explain away the obvious truth of what this video is trying to show you?

 

Why not try to engage your brain for a moment, before firing off an angry response? You might look a bit less of a clown if you tried that.

He did make it. So, you know who made it. Right? Duh.

Just to spell it out for you, in case you're actually this stupid: there is no "blunder" here. The video shows exactly what Mick wanted it to show. It shows that, in ordinary operation, the "scene stabilisation" processing that occurs in many modern cameras and smart phones can produce illusions of movement that are not real.

Of course, as you said, "people are idiots and can't tell when something caught on camera or video is moving or not moving."

Are you an idiot, Magical Realist, or can you always tell?

Also, why didn't you do the experiment, like I suggested?

 

Doubling down on stupid again? Is this sort of nonsense really the best we can expect from you, going forward?

This sort of stupid obstinence and refusal to learn anything new is one reason why you'll most likely remain stuck in your narrow and uninteresting world of pseudoscience and fantasy for the rest of your life.

What happened to you to make you unwilling to learn anything new? I'd honestly like to find out. Probably you lack the self-awareness to have any idea what the actual reason is, though.

 

You clearly have never taken time to think about what I have tried to teach you about skepticism, because you're still making fundamentally erroneous claims about it after years of being exposed to how it works.

Skepticism is not a "belief system". It's an attitude or stance towards examining claims (about anything, not just woo). It also piggy-backs on the investigative methods of science. And, of course, it relies on critical, rational thought. A belief system, in contrast, has a set of tenets that are taken to be unquestionably true, or as so obvious that they are axiomatic. But a religious-like belief system (such as the blind faith in the existence of space aliens) goes much further than that - into a dogmatic acceptance of things that are essentially unevidenced.

As for insults, I'm actually glad you feel insulted when I suggest you might be a functional idiot, Magical Realist. It suggest to me that perhaps, deep down, you have both a sense of self-awareness and reflection, and perhaps a little niggle of shame lurking away in the darkness. Nevertheless, you seem quite happy to keep acting the fool. It's a problem you'll need to solve for yourself. If you'd really prefer not to be considered a clown, you really need to stop acting like a clown. I think you could do it if you tried.

 

Magical Realist:

You're sliding into trolling again.

The world you live in, Magical Realist, is rife with irrationality and bullshit. Reason, critical thinking and impartiality are always under attack. It is a brave minority of people who defend such things, against the tides of dogma, tribalism and self-interest.

You are correct that these things need defending. You don't understand why that is, because you're on the wrong side of the fence, with most of the mindless mob. But you're wrong about where the insecurity lies. Provisional beliefs held for rational reasons are always subject to revision for rational reasons; no rationalist is insecure about that - it's an accepted and welcomed part of being a rational person. The only insecurity lies in being surrounded by rabid mobs of people who like to burn books and to purge society of critical thinkers, so that they can gain and hold onto power using manipulative dogmas.

Some of those people have captured your mind, and now you're a slave of sorts. The means for your liberation are available to you, but you've been so lulled into a false sense of security that it doesn't even occur to you that you're trapped.

You will dismiss all of the above as bullshit, naturally, because not thinking has become a comfortable habit for you.

Your silly aliens aren't remotely important, Magical Realist, let alone threatening or "devastating" to free thinkers. It's you who is stuck in the rut. Wake up.

Science has no "edicts". You're brainwashed. Wake up.

How this actually went, of course, is that I posted an on-topic comment, in which I made the reasonable suggestion that if you don't believe Mick West, you could repeat his experiment and convince yourself. Instead of taking up that challenge, you decided to play the clown, as you so often do. I called you on that and now you're running to hide behind Yazata's skirts, as usual, while whining about the mean man who wants to take your comforter blankey away. As usual. Grow up.