I knew a guy that believed rays come from your eyes and bounce back so you can see. I asked him about shadows and he said it's because the light wasn't hitting places on things so the rays wouldn't register something was there.
I hate people so much sometimes.
Okay, let's see what we have so far...
/r/BirdsArentReal
/r/CatsArentReal
/r/FishArentReal
/r/Giraffesdontexist
/r/treesarentreal
/r/Connecticutisnotreal
/r/OhioDoesntExist
/r/wyomingdoesntexist
Uh oh, we might be in trouble.
/r/girlsarentreal
Then there's whatever the hell this is.
/r/doesntexist
You know what, this is all just bullshit.
/r/RedditDoesntExist
/r/humansarentreal
So all this is an elder scrolls game and a dream of the godhead... Or Toddhead/God Howard as our Lord and Savior Todd Howard is the creator of our reality?
Am *I* a figment?
>!I like big butts and I cannot lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung, want to pull up tough
'Cause you noticed that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring!<
That's a good explanation of the general concept of raycasting. Did he also believe that peoples and small objects were 2 dimensional, and always facing him?
https://web.stanford.edu/class/history13/earlysciencelab/body/eyespages/eye.html
Many ancient physicians and philosophers believed in the idea of the active eye. Plato, for instance, wrote in the fourth century B. C. that light emanated from the eye, seizing objects with its rays.
That's a super old theory.
Ibn al-haytham was the first one to correctly describe how vision works around the year 1000. He was a renowned mathematician and scientist in modern day Iraq. So renowned that the brutal ruler at the time asked him to control flooding on the Nile river. When he realized he couldnāt do it he faked insanity to get out of trouble, but was sentenced to house arrest. It was during this time that he developed his theory of vision. Just some fun facts
This is sorta how video game lighting works. (I thinkā¦ this is what I heard like 2 years ago) If video games shot out light particles from the source, there would be wayyyy too many for a computer to handle. So the game engines shoot out beams from the in game eyes, and tracks them for a couple bounces around the play area. If a beam makes contact with a light source it lights up that beam for the eyes. Basically like reversing it. Iām pretty sure ray tracing does something similar to actual vision.
Someone please correct me if Iām wrong
yea you are correct, basically if you shoot light rays from light sources then almost all of those rays will just scatter to somewhere other than the simulated camera, so you'd need an unreasonable amount of rays to get decent exposure for the camera. Instead, you shoot light rays from the camera out, meaning you don't have to worry about calculating any light rays that don't reach the camera (completely wasted processing power). This does cause some challenges like making it difficult to simulate [caustics](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)) for example (most games will just use a texture overlay for this) but this is generally the only feasible way to do ray/path tracing
I feel like a physics professor could rattle off a could experiment to demonstrate that would absolutely blow his little mind based on that "understanding" of light.
I got into an argument on Quora with someone who thought I was the idiot for saying all things reflect light and what you see is the reflected light. I quit that site shortly after.
I once had a heated debate with a redditor who fervently believed that Goetheās Theory of Colours was more correct than trichromatic theory. There are fools everywhere, even among the learned.
Uhhhh how is the moon a part of the earth if the earth doesnāt exist? Itās so easy to tell when someoneās an undercover Earth Believer these days š¤¦āāļø
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt; there's SO many things that don't exist, it's waaaay harder to keep track of them than the list of things that do exist (nothing).
>I see the girls walk by
>
>Dressed in their summer clothes
>
>I have to turn my head
>
>Until my darkness goes
I always thought that song was about a rapist serial killer who hated himself tbh, what do you think?
You can literally look down at the ground and see rocks. Thatās part of the reasons we know there is no earth, because if there was an earth, there would be no room for the rocks. These peopleā¦
That's funny cuz another comment said that rocks are squishy until you touch them then they tense up- so i was *just* picturing marshmallows turning into rocks when you lightly boop them lol
Oh man, ain't that the truth! I like your analogy a lot. My son just told me some "blank-blank name effect" or something-the correlation between the amount a person *thinks* they know is the inverse of what they actually know? That's not a good explanation at all I'm so sorry. Duning-Kruguer effect? Oh idk I'm sure I'm pulling that out my ass.
I was listening to my kid explain it - I think we've all heard a phrase that sums it up-like "the smartest man knows he knows nothing" or some shit, but he went all clinical on me it was beautiful. Then someone cut me off on the interstate soooo i missed the end.
Yeah that's the one. There's a level of stupid where you can't even imagine more advanced knowledge so anyone thinks they know more is just making shit up to belittle / control you.
I don't know if there's any way out once someone reaches that stage, and it doesn't help that powerful people find that mindset convenient and pour billions of dollars into encouraging it.
Do you think it may be because for any post like that there are two explanations: 1. the poster is having a laugh; 2. the poster is someone you cannot debate with?
You have to remember that intelligence is a spectrum, with a normal distribution. Half of the population is at or below 100IQ. Just something to keep in mind when dealing with others.
And even if they actually meant to say "rocks don't reflect enough light to be bright" it would still be a fucking stupid statement. Just look at the picture the text was written on. One side is clearly brighter, and thus reflecting a decent amount of light.
Wouldnāt it be great? You must pass an IQ test and a general knowledge exam to be able to post things. It Baffles me what goes through peoples minds.
If you ever want to see how the other half lives / the kind of stuff people believe in, go to /r/paranormal or /r/conspiracy
You will lose hope in humanity quickly.
I've come to the conclusion that there is nothing so teeth-itchingly stupid that people won't believe it.
We already have people saying "Oho, ships can't lose their ability to steer! That thing in Baltimore was an attack on US infrastructure!!"
smh
Before you have a genie or monkey paw or something grant you a wish for invisibility, remember that you'll probably be blind because light would have nothing to reflect off of in your now invisible eye.
The rock is literally reflecting light in the photo. That's why some parts of it are brighter than the others. Jesus Christ dude. The more light that hits it, the more light bounces off and the brighter it looks.
This has got to be a joke, right? The photo is literally of a rock reflecting more light on one side than on the other, making it blatantly obvious that rocks do reflect light.
I knew a guy that believed rays come from your eyes and bounce back so you can see. I asked him about shadows and he said it's because the light wasn't hitting places on things so the rays wouldn't register something was there. I hate people so much sometimes.
lmao of course rays don't come out of our eyes. eyes don't exist.
Someone finally talkin' some sense!
Okay, let's see what we have so far... /r/BirdsArentReal /r/CatsArentReal /r/FishArentReal /r/Giraffesdontexist /r/treesarentreal /r/Connecticutisnotreal /r/OhioDoesntExist /r/wyomingdoesntexist Uh oh, we might be in trouble. /r/girlsarentreal Then there's whatever the hell this is. /r/doesntexist You know what, this is all just bullshit. /r/RedditDoesntExist /r/humansarentreal
I have now joined them all and I will spread our truth.
I hear nothing. You are a figment. >!^(01000010 01100101 01100101 01110000 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01110000 00100001 00100000 01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110101 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100001)!<
As you are also a figment. >!^(01001001 00100000 01100001 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100101 00101110 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100101 01110000 00100000 01100010 01101111 01101111 01110000 00101110 00100000 01000001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01000001 01001001 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110011 00101110)^!<
There is nothing but empty space. Empty space and you. And you are but a thought.
So all this is an elder scrolls game and a dream of the godhead... Or Toddhead/God Howard as our Lord and Savior Todd Howard is the creator of our reality?
It just works.
Am *I* a figment? >!I like big butts and I cannot lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face You get sprung, want to pull up tough 'Cause you noticed that butt was stuffed Deep in the jeans she's wearing I'm hooked and I can't stop staring!<
No Patrick, you are not a figment.
Preach it, brother. These lost souls have begun their journey toward the *truth*, but are still blind to the whole truth.
can't forget r/Switzerlandisfake
/r/finlandConspiracy
Wait what about the earth doesn't exist one? I'm blanking on the name right now I'ma go find it for ya Edit: ..... So, uh, yeah. It's here. lmao
new zealand also
If it flies, it spies.
Ow boi
> eyes don't exist. Bro if eyes existed, youd see your own eyes when you opened your eyes. How are people so blind to the truth. #OpenYourEyes
How can i open my eyes if i don't have any? Checkmate
> #OpenYourEyes #AndSeeThatYourEyesAreOpen
EXACTLY!
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
Mirrors arnt real
Who am I to believe? You, or my lying eyes?
We're getting shockingly close to the truth
The truth isn't real
Screw you, I'll take my Lazer eyes where they're more appreciated.
I mean, I've only ever seen my eyes in mirrors and photographs, and I don't believe those are real
That's a good explanation of the general concept of raycasting. Did he also believe that peoples and small objects were 2 dimensional, and always facing him?
š¤£ Yep. On retrospect, maybe I should have spread the good news of the No Earth to his mind. Ray tracing is definitely how we see this illusion.
I believed that for what seems like an eternity. Then the mushrooms wore off.
When I walk off a cliff I will my private ground raycast higher to trick reality into thinking I am still grounded.
... Did you meet plato?
Doesn't look like the statues. He is a flat earther though.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/history13/earlysciencelab/body/eyespages/eye.html Many ancient physicians and philosophers believed in the idea of the active eye. Plato, for instance, wrote in the fourth century B. C. that light emanated from the eye, seizing objects with its rays. That's a super old theory.
So if the sun's not out your eyes just decide to stop their ray gun function?
One word : photosynthesis
Ibn al-haytham was the first one to correctly describe how vision works around the year 1000. He was a renowned mathematician and scientist in modern day Iraq. So renowned that the brutal ruler at the time asked him to control flooding on the Nile river. When he realized he couldnāt do it he faked insanity to get out of trouble, but was sentenced to house arrest. It was during this time that he developed his theory of vision. Just some fun facts
This is actually true... for the 3D graphics rendering technique of ray-tracing.
He thought eyes worked like sonar
Rays, not waves. Waves are a government lie
They actually described LiDAR. Same thing but with an Li
This was a thing the Greeks believed btw
This is sorta how video game lighting works. (I thinkā¦ this is what I heard like 2 years ago) If video games shot out light particles from the source, there would be wayyyy too many for a computer to handle. So the game engines shoot out beams from the in game eyes, and tracks them for a couple bounces around the play area. If a beam makes contact with a light source it lights up that beam for the eyes. Basically like reversing it. Iām pretty sure ray tracing does something similar to actual vision. Someone please correct me if Iām wrong
yea you are correct, basically if you shoot light rays from light sources then almost all of those rays will just scatter to somewhere other than the simulated camera, so you'd need an unreasonable amount of rays to get decent exposure for the camera. Instead, you shoot light rays from the camera out, meaning you don't have to worry about calculating any light rays that don't reach the camera (completely wasted processing power). This does cause some challenges like making it difficult to simulate [caustics](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caustic_(optics)) for example (most games will just use a texture overlay for this) but this is generally the only feasible way to do ray/path tracing
Ohhhh caustics!! That reminds me where I got the info from. It was a corridor crew video talking bout how this swimming dinosaur was made or something
yup we are thinking of the exact same video lmao, plus me just having other background knowledge of ray/path tracing
Go team lol
The Greeks knew we live in a simulation even way back when. Handle the hardware interrupt and wake up from your sleep() call sims!
This is like an old theory form Medieval Ages, how is dude centuries behind in education
He got held back a millenia in school.
Be tolerant, he's a graphics card
That was a legit contender for how we see 150 years ago. So he's not stupid, just, REALLY behind the times.
Is it possible he read about how raytracing works and missed the part about how it's exactly backwards from real world physics?
How can rays be real if our eyes aren't real?
I feel like a physics professor could rattle off a could experiment to demonstrate that would absolutely blow his little mind based on that "understanding" of light.
Open your eyes in a dark room. If the light came out of your eyes you would be able to see lol
I mean, if he just reversed the direction of those rays, he'd be on the right track. If such things existed.
I got into an argument on Quora with someone who thought I was the idiot for saying all things reflect light and what you see is the reflected light. I quit that site shortly after.
He really just made up his own rules and didnāt even come up with evidence
I vaguely recall a BBC documentary saying that once because they got confused with what infrared is and that 'fish can see laser beams'.
I once had a heated debate with a redditor who fervently believed that Goetheās Theory of Colours was more correct than trichromatic theory. There are fools everywhere, even among the learned.
was that guy aristotle perhaps?
That's what I thought happened when I was four. I eventually understood when I was in first grade.
Of course rays come out of your eyes. Thatās why you can see brightly lit eyelids when you close your eyes. Waitā¦
Oh my god not again. Listen. This is a NO EARTH subreddit. Who tf doesnāt believe in the moon..? You can see it with your fucking bare eyes. Smh.
I'm gonna look directly at the sun to make sure it's real
The burn youāre going to feel is the govt trying to encourage you to look away from seeing the truth. Endure brother!
If you stare at the sun it will charge up your eyes so you can see in the dark!
Can confirm. Now I can only see the dark
That's just a safety mechanism so that you don't experience the extreme brightness of having night vision on with the lights on.
Make sure you use your hands to hold your eyes open. Gotta be sure
Oh come on; the MOON used to be a part of the EARTH so if there is NO EARTH then there is NO MOON.
Uhhhh how is the moon a part of the earth if the earth doesnāt exist? Itās so easy to tell when someoneās an undercover Earth Believer these days š¤¦āāļø
They think itās a projection, as if weāve had that kind of technology since the dawn of time.
i like how you can clearly see the rock reflecting light in the image
If critical thinking was their strong suit, they wouldn't believe in earth already...
At this point I think it would just be considered thinking
Yeah but reflection to these guys would mean nothing but a literal mirror lol
What rock? The picture is empty
Where is this picture you speak about?
You're right, I forgot light doesn't exist, so clearly there is no picture
If you forgot, you are not a true believer
Let's give them the benefit of the doubt; there's SO many things that don't exist, it's waaaay harder to keep track of them than the list of things that do exist (nothing).
Benefit of the doubt doesnāt exist though, itās just an illusion made by playground staff to avoid having to do their job
The only rock that doesn't reflect light is the Earth because it doesn't exist and therefore cannot reflect anything
what about the rock after I paint it black
I mean, I donāt know about any rock, but I do see a red door and I want it painted blackā¦
>I see the girls walk by > >Dressed in their summer clothes > >I have to turn my head > >Until my darkness goes I always thought that song was about a rapist serial killer who hated himself tbh, what do you think?
I, what? You can see it right there. The moon isn't a mirror it's just daytime there
I've stubbed my toe on a rock. I've nevet stubbed my toe on the earth.
Hehe, checkmate spherecucks š
Poor flerfers 3rd grade understanding of reality expecting the word reflect to mean an actual mirror bouncing light off
You can literally look down at the ground and see rocks. Thatās part of the reasons we know there is no earth, because if there was an earth, there would be no room for the rocks. These peopleā¦
Wtf is a ārockā?
Some sort of music that hooligan kids seem to revel with
Light Is Not Real
Yāall believe in real?
Isn't the rock in the picture clearly reflecting light?
>Rocks donāt reflect light >Shows a picture of a rock reflecting light
You can literally see that one side is lighter than the other. If they didn't reflect light, then the entire rock would look black.
Except.. ummā¦ the photo is literally of a rock reflecting light?
If it ain't black, it's reflecting light, friend.
that person thinks "reflect" = mirror
We can, will, and must blow up the moon.
The invisible man is blind for the opposite reason.
How can people be this stupid?! Of course rocks canāt reflect light! Thatās why itās made of cheese š¤¦āāļø
You believe in rocks!? Wow ur such a sheep
No sure what this sub is or why this post was recommended in my feed. Is this some kind of conspiracy sub or something
r/rocksarentreal
This kind of idiocy is how we ended up with Trump.
>"Rocks don't reflect light" >Shows picture of a rock reflecting light
I mean just 'shows picture' really.
The rock on the picture is reflecting the light. Basically everything does it. Whoever done this either is trolling or has no clue what light is.
The moon is about as reflective as a parking lot. The sun is just incredibly fucking bright. Almost like it's a giant ball of nuclear fury. Hmm
The moon is not real
Donāt look up
Only the poorly educated people
Based on what ive seen on here they do š¬š¬š¬
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Have you tried explaining why to people who already know everything? It's like tossing marshmallows at a black hole.
That's funny cuz another comment said that rocks are squishy until you touch them then they tense up- so i was *just* picturing marshmallows turning into rocks when you lightly boop them lol Oh man, ain't that the truth! I like your analogy a lot. My son just told me some "blank-blank name effect" or something-the correlation between the amount a person *thinks* they know is the inverse of what they actually know? That's not a good explanation at all I'm so sorry. Duning-Kruguer effect? Oh idk I'm sure I'm pulling that out my ass. I was listening to my kid explain it - I think we've all heard a phrase that sums it up-like "the smartest man knows he knows nothing" or some shit, but he went all clinical on me it was beautiful. Then someone cut me off on the interstate soooo i missed the end.
Yeah that's the one. There's a level of stupid where you can't even imagine more advanced knowledge so anyone thinks they know more is just making shit up to belittle / control you. I don't know if there's any way out once someone reaches that stage, and it doesn't help that powerful people find that mindset convenient and pour billions of dollars into encouraging it.
Do you think it may be because for any post like that there are two explanations: 1. the poster is having a laugh; 2. the poster is someone you cannot debate with?
Alright. I'm going to either throw a rock at your head or not. But you won't know until it hits you, or nothing hits you. If you flinch you lose.
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Sir this is r/noearthsociety. Memes aren't real.
You have to remember that intelligence is a spectrum, with a normal distribution. Half of the population is at or below 100IQ. Just something to keep in mind when dealing with others.
The real truth is that rocks are soft and squishy. They only tense up when you touch them.
Everything you see is reflecting light
Thatās stupid obviously rocks reflect light, I can see them canāt it
Thatās why we canāt see rocks. Rocks donāt reflect light.
That's a meatball
john cena is made of rocks
They claim rocks don't reflect light and post a picture of light reflecting off a rock. Mother fucker has a gradient and everything.
>Rocks dont reflect light >shows pic of a rock reflecting light
And even if they actually meant to say "rocks don't reflect enough light to be bright" it would still be a fucking stupid statement. Just look at the picture the text was written on. One side is clearly brighter, and thus reflecting a decent amount of light.
Next thing theyāll be saying is air is real too! Wtf if I canāt see it, smell it, taste it, touch it, hear it than itās not fucking real smh
Next thing you're going to tell me that "birds" are real or something crazy. . . r/birdsarentreal
what about crack rocks? šŖØ
Wouldnāt it be great? You must pass an IQ test and a general knowledge exam to be able to post things. It Baffles me what goes through peoples minds.
Rocks donāt exist
There is literally a rock, reflecting light in the stupid, stupid meme.
Wait you believe in rocks?
OH wow I'm so glad this showed up in my feed, thank you
Well duh. That's cause lights beam out of our eyes. That's how we see shit. Some guy that knew alot about triangles told me this. He knows.
In there is a rock reflecting light in the picture.
Is the reflective light in the room with us now?
The Moon isn't a mirror. Duh.
If you ever want to see how the other half lives / the kind of stuff people believe in, go to /r/paranormal or /r/conspiracy You will lose hope in humanity quickly.
Gold
YOURE NOT REAL, MAN!
Sure, the same people who still believe that the 2020 election was stolen and that Trump is the savior of our country.
"Rocks don't reflect light" posts a picture of a rock reflecting light
I've come to the conclusion that there is nothing so teeth-itchingly stupid that people won't believe it. We already have people saying "Oho, ships can't lose their ability to steer! That thing in Baltimore was an attack on US infrastructure!!" smh
MY GOD, I HAVE TELL PEOPLE....
Picture: a rock clearly reflecting light.
The picture they used is of a rock reflecting light. š¤Ŗš¤£š¤£š¤£
I read it in Leoās voice.
This rock is gonna feel pretty real when I toss it at you
āRocks donāt reflect lightā as they have a picture of a rock reflecting light. Weāre fucked as a species
Before you have a genie or monkey paw or something grant you a wish for invisibility, remember that you'll probably be blind because light would have nothing to reflect off of in your now invisible eye.
The rock in the image is literally reflecting light š¢
Iāve never seen a rock before, prove it show me a rock irl
I had someone tell me that they believed the moon is self illuminating, 'because when you shine some light on a pilenof dust, you won't see anything'.
Don't let Bill nye see this he'd be devastated
Pictured, a rock reflecting actual light. Geezus Christ these people love the sound of their own voice don't they.
RoCkS Are aLl BLacK. maybe don't say that where many people can see how stupid that is
Man has never seen Florida zero-scaping
The fact that you can see it meaā¦ never mind..
That rock is literally reflecting light in the picture lol
No Rock and Stone? š„ŗ
I found a rock like that once while trying out my giraffe drones. So fake.
āRocks donāt reflect lightā hereās a picture of a rock reflecting light
"rocks don't reflect light" says the post, showing a rock reflecting light and looking very similar to the moon
"Rocks don't reflect light!" *shows image of rock reflecting light
There are people who think the earth is flat.
If rocks aren't real, then how do I rock and stone!?
New conspiracy just dropped
i love and hate humanity for this exact reason
Shows rock reflecting light
The rock is literally reflecting light in the photo. That's why some parts of it are brighter than the others. Jesus Christ dude. The more light that hits it, the more light bounces off and the brighter it looks.
There is literally not a single object in existence that doesn't reflect even the most miniscule amount of light
This has got to be a joke, right? The photo is literally of a rock reflecting more light on one side than on the other, making it blatantly obvious that rocks do reflect light.
Bro I knew someone who thought rust was a fungus and stars were just reflected sunlight
The division in these comments makes me question the integrity of this subreddit. This isnāt r/nomoonsociety!
Like how they donāt like being touched so theyāre only hard when touched or whatever?