Moon week: It looks bigger when its rising, we don't know why

Moon week: It looks bigger when its rising

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day day day. Do do
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Today's faking. There's moonweek loving us.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Moon was out again this morning when I left home
and I turned and I saw it and I said hello.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Moon showed me right in the eyes last night. Because
we've got we've got sheets as curtains in the bedroom.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
You should borrow some money off Carlen's rich boyfriend. Oh
my god, actually could.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
He could leave me like a tin kter?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
What are they called finance? Finance?

Speaker 4 (00:39):
He's got a bit of coin retland around cash. I'll ask,
I ask, thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
It might cost you a Wellington weekend of the high
falut and rest well, that's all right, happy happy, If
you've just joined the show. We've learned this some morning.
Carlin's boyfriend's loaded, she said, boyfriend.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
We immediately posers on that. We've learned more. It's very
wealthy drives the European car.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
We're assuming a Lamborghini su but yes, the worst of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
But if you're gonna get one, it's a news event.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
But yeah, the sheet was like that, like angled out
and I was facing it like this in the moon
was just right in the face the face.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Face, Well, would you agree, siren man?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Thank you that when the moon is on the horizon,
when it's rising, it looks bigger than when it's Yes,
it looks bigger than it's closer.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
The moon illusion. This is the weird thing about it.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
There's theories on why it happens, but nobody's said it
on the exact reason why the moon looks bigger on
the horizon. It is totally It is totally an illusion.
They tested this by when it comes up over the horizon.
It can be as simple as put your finger up
and put the top of your finger on the top
of the moon and put a little mark on your finger,
and then when it's high in the sky do it
again exactly the same.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Really, somebody gives the illusion that.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's larger, and maybe somebody called the Ponzo illusion. Yeah,
dipping so small somewhere health different. The Ponzo illusion is
an illusion are discovered by Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo, which
might be the most of.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
It, might be the most Italian zemding name of all time,
Mario Jonzo.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
But basically, if there's two lines and they're going in
like train, tracks going to the distance. If you've put
exactly the same link line at the bottom and at
the top, the one at the top looks bigger.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, I've seen this before, but it's exactly the same.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's one of those illusions that just because of the
change in two other lines, the brain automatically is like, well,
of course there's bigger because it's overgoing over those lines
and at the bottom it's not. So there's belief that
it may be something to do with the Ponzo illusion,
but they also think it's just our brains because when
it's coming up over the horizon, we have something to
compare it to. It might be a tree or a

(02:49):
house or a hill, and we know the size of
that hill, yes, But then when it's up in the
sky with nothing in the foreground to compare it to,
we we lose that comparative, right, Yeah, that comparative measure.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Does have anything to do with the flatness of the earth.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh, I've been listen.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos in a
great podcast, did you watch it?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
A YouTube video where a guy trying to prove the
earth was flat, proved without doubt that his curved so.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was so good.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
It was just a simple experiment and and now you
should be able to see.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Something wrong here. Whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Apparently, astronauts in space when they see the moon, when
that at the space station, the moon comes around the Earth,
it's the same. They're like, man, it looks massive with
the Earth in the foreground. And then they see it
come out and they're like, now it looks more.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
And nobody on the exact So what you're saying is
that the Moon isn't actually fluctuating in size.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Man, you learn something new every day.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Ancient times, it was believed it's a circle around the Earth.
Was much more egg shaped, and it was close to Earth.
It was coming up over the side, and that's where
you saw it. And then he went up on the nights.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
They were so dumb back then.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Thank god as a planet, we're some much started.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Now your dumb apes, we're clever because we've got internets.
So today's fact of the day is that no one
has a rock solid reasoning on why the moon looks
bigger when it's rising.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
In fact of the day, day day day, day, Yeah,
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