Can't Argue With Wikipedia or TED

The photographs in this post were taken this year without any enlargement lenses or any kind of modification inside or outside of the camera, of what was visible to the ordinary human eye at the time.

Supermoon - evening in New York

But if you go to the Wikipedia entries about the apparent size of the Moon to human vision, you will wade through long passages of turgid pseudo-science and jargon that basically contradict what people's actual experiences are. Namely, that they do not in fact (according to Wikipedia) 'see' the Moon as being larger at the horizon and smaller when higher in the sky, and that this is just an illusion inside their heads (rather than actually an optical illusion in the sky) although of what exact nature no one is agreed upon 100%.

And as far as the Supermoon is concerned it is more or less the same thing - on the one hand the Moon is physically closer, but that doesn't alter the original human mind trickery that makes it only seem as if it is visually - that is, optically - incredibly large at the horizon.

San Fancisco, 2016

Good luck to you if believe that.

The wonder of today's world is that no sooner had the human race harnessed the power of computers and computer memory, than they altogether gave up thinking through anything, being able to rely on mechanical iterations and re-iterations of processes and 'things' they need or consume without having to really be so concerned that they actually knew how these things happened...

So then we also have Chris Anderson, the founder of TED Talks, who claims to be a Christian or something akin at least, and to appear on the surface, to be racially or ethnically English, and to own and run this 'not-for-profit'/'NONPARTISAN' organisation that promotes interesting, usually academic, talks. He calls them 'powerful' rather than my word - 'interesting.'

Indians - a lot of them - call him a Bangla, though. And what they mean is laden with political import not readily understood by outsiders. When Bengal was ceded by the declining British Empire, part of it became part of India (West Bengal) and another part of it became what is now called Bangladesh, and another part of it went to Pakistan.

And she's not Chinese, either! But she is a spy,
at least in a Bond flick anyway

Under the processes of 'partition' people who could establish they owned land in Bengal, and were moving to the new Islamic nation of Pakistan, would receive money and land both from the British and in Pakistan itself from the new government of Pakistan. The way they 'established' they had previously owned land in Bengal was the exact same way Barack Obama established that he was born a US citizen: they went basically to expert Indian forgers who forged amazing documents 'proving' whatever it was they could afford to 'prove.'

Chris Anderson in my view is more or less the same thing as a Janissary - he is a Muslim who was 'captured' by means of money or force originally as a white person and a Christian, and then converted to engage in Fifth-Column activities and spying and sabotage in the West.

You don't need to believe me though. But if you go and trust TED Talks or Chris Anderson and wonder why you had ended up with a knife in your back (figuratively, of course...!) then on your own head be it, which it probably will be.