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Our brain compensates automatically for this by perceiving objects near the horizon as larger than they actually appear.
The two yellow lines in this drawing are the same size, but the upper one seems bigger because we interpret it as receding farther into the horizon.
For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds since there wouldn't be any other smaller objects near the horizon.
On the other hand, if it's just our brain's autocorrecting the size of objects near the horizon, then we'd expect the moon illusion to be visible inside a planetarium, where the whole sky, including the horizon, is displayed on a spherical dome overhead.
When looking at the horizon, your eyes focus far off into the distance so your brain knows you're looking far away.
Rather than explain why the moon looks so big near the horizon, Convergence Microspia explains why the moon looks so small when overhead.
Perhaps one day the exact cause of motion sickness will be found, and with it, a completely effective way to prevent it, but that day is still on the horizon.
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to direct sunlight, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second.
It's something like a Kickstarter project, only with a 15-year time horizon and millions of tons of carbon dioxide at stake.
So every time my assistant and I shifted our weight, our horizon line shifted.
No one seems to notice that referencing the time horizon is a total non sequitur.
But the moment we admit that information processing is the source of intelligence, that some appropriate computational system is what the basis of intelligence is, and we admit that we will improve these systems continuously, and we admit that the horizon of cognition very likely far exceeds what we currently know, then we have to admit that we are in the process of building some sort of god.
You know, when you see a thunderstorm on the horizon and you just find yourself rooting for the storm.
This bright ring reveals the black hole's event horizon, where the gravitational pull becomes so great that not even light can escape.
If we could build this Earth-sized telescope, we could just start to make out that distinctive ring of light indicative of the black hole's event horizon.
And by connecting telescopes from around the world, an international collaboration called the Event Horizon Telescope is creating a computational telescope the size of the Earth, capable of resolving structure on the scale of a black hole's event horizon.
These are men and women who can sense the presence of distant atolls of islands beyond the visible horizon, simply by watching the reverberation of waves across the hull of their vessel, knowing full well that every island group in the Pacific has its unique refractive pattern that can be read with the same perspicacity with which a forensic scientist would read a fingerprint.
Then over the horizon comes a Hercules with the ramp down.
What's happening in the world and in the ocean has changed our time horizon.
Some person, looking at the horizon at some zombie going by, and they zoom in on the person and you see the person's face, and you know what they're thinking: "What's really the difference between that zombie and me?
And the full moon was illuminated by the dying sun in such a powerful way that even after the sun had dropped below the horizon, the moon could still see that sun.
And the last illusion is, I can somehow plan enough and arrange things that I will be able to see the path to the end right from where I'm standing, right to the horizon.
But on the horizon it was orange, like sunset, 360 degrees.
On the vessel's fourth pass, the Earth slowly comes into view and reveals itself above the Moon's horizon.
But there are days when the horizon disappears; there's no longer a top or a bottom.
When the sun comes up from the horizon, the museum rises up to the sky.
As the sun rose up above the horizon, we rose up, too, silently, slowly, with no explosions.
When this feeling is present, I'm confident that the next phase of healing is on the horizon, and that allows me to share my story in full.
The horizon, the open road, is very, very glamorous.
In failing states, genocidal states, under-governed states, precisely the kinds of places that threats to this country exist on the horizon, and precisely the kinds of places where most of the world's suffering tends to get concentrated.
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