[syndicate] The Sondheim effect*

[Alan Sondheim]

One explanation for the erratic behavior of flying saucers - that they're 
stars, not near others, and the saccadic movement of the eyes makes them 
appear to be traveling -=-

- Alan


On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:

>
>> * Of course, naming the effect after me quickly gives way to the realiza-
>> tion that there must be thousands of experimental studies of just such
>> things;
>
> My favourite is looking at a city from a sailingboat at night throug a 
> binocular and to move this thing. When your eyes are calm, well, you are 
> sailing at night, you can see dotted lines. Dotted by acternativ current, 
> that feeds the city lights.
>
>
> H.
>
>


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