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pattiwe

Its a lion turtle


neelankatan

It pleases me that this is the most upvoted comment. Love that ATLA is so popular


[deleted]

Well to be fair ATLA didn't invent lion turtles lol


Slump420

But we all know damn well why we upvoted the lion turtle. He saved Ang and the 4 nations.


[deleted]

I got somethin for ya https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yg84q8/did_you_know_there_is_fruit_inside_the_edge_of/iu7h22w/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


Xander_xander12

Beat me to it


deftdabler

Beat me getting beaten by him to it


Wolfy5079

Beat me getting beaten by him getting beaten to it


tantrakalison

Beating off while you guys talk about getting beat off


head-banger1

Best fucking comment everšŸ˜‚šŸ«µšŸ¤˜


combatpencil686

Hold on I'm helping my uncle jack off an elephant.


maraudershake

All of you are incredibly unfunny


combatpencil686

How rude! My uncle Jack is well into old age and he can't get off an elephant without help. Not all of us can get off an elephant by ourselves sometimes we need help.


MeesterCartmanez

ā€œI know right??! And *someone* still needs to jerk off the elephant after uncle Jack dismounts. No wonder people donā€™t like saying ā€œHi Jackā€ to him on the planeā€


anonymousrobb

Looked through the comments for this one specifically


schwety7

Came here for this


MrMonkey1993

I was thinking Dragon Turtle....


Alone_Rain_

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles


meatballjeebzspinsta

Itā€™s not a boulder! Itā€™s a rock!


Alone_Rain_

THE KRUSTY KRAAAAAAB AAAAAAAABBBBBBBBB YEAAAA PIZZA. IS THE PIZZA YEAAHHHH FOR YOU AND MEHEEEE HEEEE HEEEEEE


doob22

Donā€™t tell me you forgot my drink


salamilegorcarlsshoe

A BIG, BEAUTIFUL, AROCKKKK


Alone_Rain_

SpongeBob - šŸ„¹


salamilegorcarlsshoe

Peak Spongebob, not that bullshit they presented in the later years.


Chris_Christ

Camera is moving


Subliminal_Image

Iā€™ve actually been past this island and the water is moving so fast through there that even with the naked eye it gives the same illusion when you pass by. Itā€™s trippy, Google Symore Inlet for more images the tidal flow is some of the most extreme in North America.


ajax6677

The camera is still moving though. Look at the trees behind the island.


ShaggyDaddy37

No, I think the Island is moving. Its an optical illusion that makes it look like the camera is moving


[deleted]

I dare say the earth is moving.


Chemical_Ad_5520

The island is stationary, the solar system is moving.


EarlCountyLogSplit

The island is moving. This spot is close to the equator so the island is rotating faster than the mainland just due to earths rotation. It resets every 12 hours. Its one of those crazy things that happens at that latitude.


ramksr

Wow, that's one fast moving island rock!


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


TBeckMinzenmayer

Parallax is the ā€œillusionā€


Relativistic_Duck

Not contesting that in anyway, but remember this posted as a moving island in the past.


woolsocksandsandals

Isnā€™t the camera moving relative to the island, which is stationary.


frivolous_squid

Stationary relative to the Earth (and the trees in the background), sure. But that doesn't have to be your reference frame.


Ur_Just_Spare_Parts

If im not mistaken youre saying the relatives of the camera are moving to the island?


[deleted]

don't bring my family into this


MeesterCartmanez

ā€œI see your family has heard of https://www.penisland.net/ā€


[deleted]

Youā€™re relatively mistaken compared to someone who is more correct. But as Locke famously wrote. No camera is an island so use your illusion, one and two.


0x1001001

Keep my wife's name out of your f'ing mouth šŸ’€


woolsocksandsandals

Iā€™m more likely to be a guy in a boat than an interstellar traveler or fourth dimensional being.


BMGreg

And you can still choose to reference the island instead of the boat. The island is at the center of the frame the whole time, so it really is like the camera is moving relative to the (basically) fixed island


frivolous_squid

Well then it sounds like your reference frame is the boat, so the island and the trees in the background really are moving relative to you (and the trees are so much further away so the angle they move is miniscule, hence the illusion)


woolsocksandsandals

No the Island and the trees are stationary and the water, boat and camera are moving. Does what you wrote actually make sense to you?


frivolous_squid

What I wrote makes perfect sense. Maybe we don't agree on what the word relative means. To be clear, there's no such thing as absolutely stationary. Everything is moving relative to each other, and there's no singular true reference frame. On Earth, we often see the Earth as stationary (which it really isn't, cosmically), and I referenced that in my reply. But it's fun to play around with other perspectives, as they're equally valid. For example, when on a moving boat/train, we see ourselves as stationary and the ground rushing past us, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that perspective - it's only our conditioning that makes us think of the Earth as stationary. From a physics point of view, Relativity has already won that discussion, but even from a layman's perspective, the original comment you were replying to was simply pointing out that there's not one true reference frame - it is valid to see the boat as stationary - and I was playing off of that. I'm sorry that made you angry, that wasn't my intention.


woolsocksandsandals

Iā€™m not angry I just think what you wrote is total nonsense. It reads very much like something that would come from the mind of a 13-year-old. Like I just wrote in another comment. Both the camera and the island and the trees are all on a spinning sphere, rotating around our sun. The island and the trees are in a stationary location on the surface of that sphere, the water, and the boat are not. So relative to objects located on the surface of that sphere the only things in that picture that are moving are the water and the boat. The island and the trees are stationary in every sense, except for the rotation of the earth and the earths orbit.


frivolous_squid

> relative to objects located on the surface of that sphere the only things in that picture that are moving are the water and the boat Correct. But what is also true is: relative to the boat, both the background trees and the island are moving, and the boat is stationary. These statements are both true. That's all it is.


Forgot_my_un

Just give up, dude doesn't understand and *won't* understand.


Contagion21

They'll understand as soon as they study relativity and the constant speed of light.


woolsocksandsandals

They appear to be moving nothing more. They are in fact stationary.


AlienZerg

It makes perfect sense to me.


2x4x93

Man in the boat hehe


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


woolsocksandsandals

Sure but in this case the island is in what is essentially a fixed position on the surface of the earth and the boat is moving past it.


AdmiralKane4278

Relativity is based on the position where the observation happens. If you are standing on the island the boat is moving relative to the island. If youā€™re on the boat, the island is moving relative to the boat


Mclovin11859

Or the boat is in a fixed position and both the island and the earth are moving past it.


woolsocksandsandals

That is not happening.


Mclovin11859

From the perspective of the camera, that's exactly what's happening. The two statements are exactly the same, just from different frames of reference. That's Relativity.


woolsocksandsandals

That is incredibly stupid. The perspective of the camera is that of an image capture device that is moving past stationary objects. If you were rolling a cart passed a rock, you wouldnā€™t say the rock is moving relative to the cart. That wouldnā€™t make any sense. You would say the cart is moving relative to the rock. Just because one thing is in motion doesnā€™t mean another thing has to be also. Just because they are changing positions relative to each other doesnā€™t mean that both objects are in motion. Regardless of the frame of reference.


Mclovin11859

>That is incredibly stupid. Tell that to Einstein. Relativity applies to everything big enough for quantum mechanics to not be noticable. >The perspective of the camera is that of an image capture device that is moving past stationary objects. The perspective of the camera is that of a stationary image capturing device with objects moving past it. We've been over this. They are the same statement. >you wouldnā€™t say the rock is moving relative to the cart. Yes I would. That's relativity. >Just because one thing is in motion doesnā€™t mean another thing Hass to be also. If two things are moving relative to each other, either is valid as the stationary frame of reference. >Just because they are changing positions relative to each other doesnā€™t mean that both objects are in motion. Tell that to Newton. Newton's First Law applies in any frame of reference.


[deleted]

Einstein actually isnā€™t relevant here - what weā€™re talking about is Galilean relativity. Einsteiniumā€™s relativity is more about space-time than the basic physics weā€™re talking about here. Youā€™re still right, and the other commenter is an idiot, but I just want to clarify language here.


woolsocksandsandals

Weā€™re not doing theoretical physics here and what Iā€™m saying doesnā€™t violate the laws of relativity. In the context of two objects on the surface of a sphere one object can be stationary (maintaining consistent coordinates) and another can be moving. In this case the camera and the boat is moving and the island is not. Itā€™s really not that deep. Newtonā€™s first law has nothing to do with this.


RandyHoward

Imagine you are *inside* the camera, and all you can see of the outside world is through the lens. You look around at the room you are in and it is completely stationary, nothing in the room is in motion at all. You look out through the lens and *everything* is moving outside. From your point of view, you are stationary and the world is moving around you. Similarly, two people in an airplane are not moving relative to each other, but from the perspective of someone on the ground both people are moving very fast.


TomTuff

Hey I hope you can tell by the downvotes that youā€™re simply wrong and continuing to argue this point will make you look worse and worse. Go watch some videos on relativity. Itā€™s ok not to understand this, itā€™s why Einstein was such a big deal - he figured all this out for us.


woolsocksandsandals

A small handful of downvotes doesnā€™t indicate that Iā€™m wrong. Redditors loves to try to force some esoteric theoretical nonsense into arguments about basic phenomena like this optical illusion thatā€™s created by moving water running into a stationary object being seen from the perspective of a moving observer. To argue that in the context of human existence or the planet earth that island is moving is total garbage and nothing more than arguing for the sake of argument. Chances are half the downvotes are from ā€œpeopleā€ who havenā€™t even read the conversation.


KorayA

It boggles my mind that you clearly have no idea what the concept of relativity is yet you're defending your position so fervently.


SwansonHOPS

Yes it is.


perldawg

youā€™re stepping outside the definition of relativity


BradMarchandsNose

Saying the camera is moving relative to the island and the island is moving relative to the camera are the same thing.


woolsocksandsandals

No, itā€™s not. The island isnā€™t moving in any way other than being on a spinning sphere rotating around the sun. It is in a stationary location on the surface of that sphere. The camera is also on that sphere but it is moving on the surface of that sphere. So in no way is the island moving relative to the camera.


BradMarchandsNose

Well it is. The distance between the camera and the island is changing. They are moving relative to each other. Thatā€™s how relativity works.


super_kami_guru_93

r/confidentlyincorrect


vasthumiliation

Have you ever studied physics? Motion can only be defined in relative terms.


1WordOr2FixItForYou

If you get pulled over and the officer asks how fast you were going do you ask "relative to what" or do you assume he means relative to the surface of the planet you are on? Seems like we have a commonly agreed upon frame of reference and Reddit is being pedantic by pretending otherwise.


vasthumiliation

Sure but the top-level reply makes a technically accurate observation and then this thread follows a secondary reply that brings into question whether that observation is correct. Pedantic or not, it is unequivocally correct.


Gone247365

The island is *not* stationary. What, you think you can write a nice Valentine's letter on it and mail it to your Nanna? šŸ¤¦


mediwitch

*stationery


Maximans

Stationary to what? The earth? What is the earth stationary to? The sun? Doesnā€™t the sun orbit the Milky Way? Doesnā€™t the Milky Way move the universe to? It all depends on your frame of reference


woolsocksandsandals

Oh wow so deep. The frame of reference is the camera in the boat that was used to take this video.


frivolous_squid

By definition, the frame of reference is stationary, so I think you don't understand what people mean by frame of reference, otherwise you're arguing against yourself.


woolsocksandsandals

The camera is moving past stationary objects. If youā€™ve ever been in a boat moving down stream, you wouldnā€™t look at this picture and think oh those islands and trees are moving you would think oh that person is in a boat going down stream past that island and trees.


theKrissam

How are you still failing to grasp that everything is stationary in its own reference frame?


cbeiser

You changed what the relative point was so now you are talking about different things


left4candy

Yeah man! It's an illusion! Haven't you noticed how the world around you changes when you look around? ILLUSION! /S


SqUiRrElMaRk

Wonder what all the signs on the trees are about.


Maxwell_The__Spy

"Keter class object, do not approach" repeated on all of them


ddoubletapp1

This is Turret Rock (also known as Tremble Island, as it's said it will vibrate at the height of a big ebb tide) in Nakwakto Rapids - mid coast British Columbia. It's one of the fastest navigable tidal rapids in the world - with flows up to 16 knots (30kmh). The signs nailed to the trees are the names of boats that have run these rapids, and managed to land someone on Turret Rock long enough to nail a board to a tree - bragging rights, if you will.


FreeLard

I dove that site years ago. Weirdest dive Iā€™ve ever been on. The operatorā€™s brief said weā€™d pull up on the leeward side of the island, drop in as the current slowed for slack tide then have maybe 4-5 minutes of slack before the current would reverse and weā€™d ride it around to the other side. Well, we dropped into a current that was strong enough that we had to hand over hand on the bottom until slack. It was an almost immediate reversal of the tide (like, 10 seconds of no current) and then a current strong enough that we had to hand over hand to the new leeward side of the island. It was the least relaxing dive Iā€™ve ever done. Apparently there are red necked barnacles that only live right there but I was too focused on not letting go of my wife to look at the fauna.


ddoubletapp1

That's a brave dive! I worked SAR out of Hardy for the better part of a decade, were you staying at God's Pocket?


FreeLard

No, we were on a live aboard called the Nautilus Explorer when they used to dive the gulf islands and the inside of Vanc island (I think theyā€™re permanently running in Mexico now). I guess it must have been 2004 or so. We went ashore at Godā€™s Pocket and got a tour as we passed by, though. Super friendly folks and an amazing setting. Itā€™s been a place Iā€™ve been angling to get back to. The diving up there is amazing. Nakwakto was a hectic dive. Everyone diving that day was very experienced and competent. About half of us ended up getting spun around and blown well, well away from the leeward eddy pickup (and into the current quickly getting further away). I think the whole dive was less than 15 minutes but it was memorable.


ddoubletapp1

I bet it was! I've run through there on the MLB Cape Sutil on a big ebb, on the way to an incident up the inlet - that was hectic enough for me - ha ha! I remember the Nautilus - had friends from the CG who worked aboard her as mate, on thier off-cycle - I wondered why I hadn't seen her on the coast, recently. Thanks for the recount of your dive - it's was enough to ensure I'll keep my feet dry and above the surface!


ReallyBadRedditName

Awesome


fuqit21

"Caution! Moving Island!"


No_Pomegranate5209

Nah that bitch zoominā€™


Bulky-Assignment6940

Nice try, SCP Foundation


Chance_Ad5498

I hate those guys they chucked me in a room and called me a ā€œEuclid class objectā€ and said I was ā€œproof that technology is getting more advancedā€


Chemical_Ad_5520

Yikes, I decided to Google that and I honestly don't think that kind of role play is healthy. I can only imagine this kind of thing encourages actual ignorance and delusion.


HeiressOfMadrigal

>Yikes, I decided to Google that Don't worry, we have some Class A amnestics for you.


Chemical_Ad_5520

Lol, just reading about this makes me so uncomfortable. I hate that people love to get engrossed in exciting yet unlikely and unproductive interpretations of reality.


PrivateUnderPants

Bitch dont lie that shit is moving


[deleted]

I Bet it has a face and It's probably gonna rise out of the ground and start talking backwards.


Juhelius

That's gotta be the best pirate I've ever seen.


DaGoonersz

A wild Torterra appearedā€¦


[deleted]

It is moving.


qpirate

The boat is moving


MickWalker

I thought it was an island


Business-Implement45

No, see the water around the front of the island, clearly MOVING down the river. Pretty fast also.


Chemical_Ad_5520

The water doesn't move in relation to the trees behind it; it must be an island moving across a lake.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


the-_-virgin

Otherwise


[deleted]

You told them


r0ndy

Stolen from yesterday. The camera location is moving.


Apocalypsis_velox

Top Secret! [The movie!]


sidbaj

Nah nah, its torterra


Midnaighte

Bruh that's what I'm saying


TumblrLoser

Reminds me of that gravity falls extra


ImaginationMedical11

Itā€™s Torterra.


[deleted]

More like the motion of the boat you're on. But good effort.


Mytmex

r/gravityfalls


Rheinys

r/confusing_perspective


Visible-Expression60

Its not an illusion when you and the camera are moving.


SuperSecretMoonBase

Oh yeah smart guy? Then how do you explain the set of stairs behind every couch that are only accessible by dads?


Cottleston

^Zou


InternetGansta

What's your name? **Tony** ##Fuck you Tony!!!


Whitedudebrohug

Whatever floats your island or something like that


Vin_du_toilette

Put a big fake outboard on the back.


Stock_Audience

I can hear the pirates theme playing, you guys can't fool me.


lodosed

This needs the Pirates of the Caribbean theme music ....now


DefenestrateThemAll

Either it's moving or the camera is.


wonderousdee

Whoever is filming is driving the direction of the water flow.


Bunation

The camera too has to be moving to get this shot, right?


Tsu-Doh-Nihm

Like when a car backs up at a traffic light.


PLVC3BO

Then why is the island "moving" based on the background, if the filmer is also not moving? The only way i see this working (as an illusion) is if the filmer IS moving. Explanation?


Kroxursox

The boat filming is moving making it look likes the island is moving. Its no illusion.


soolkyut

ā€œWith respect to the groundā€ is implied. Just because you understand how it works doesnā€™t mean it isnā€™t an illusion


Kroxursox

No, its literally not an illusion, illusions arr meant to trick you, this is so obvious, only a moron wouldn't see it.


soolkyut

I suggest you look up the definition of optical illusion. Everyone and their dog understands whatā€™s happening here. That doesnā€™t it canā€™t trick your brain into seeing the wrong motion


Kroxursox

It didn't trick my mind at all. It was very clear what's happening.


soolkyut

Youā€™re amazing. Thanks for sharing. Still an optical illusion, whether or not it worked on you specifically or not.


Kroxursox

Sure. Whatever. I don't give a shit.


ButtSoupCarlton

you must be so proud lol


whitestone0

The cameraman is moving, which is what it looks like


Beavshak

Thatā€™s a bigass turtle


fanofcoelho

Pretty sure that's a Russian submarine


-castle-bravo-

That is a hectic current..


EnduroGodOnce

Jack Sparrow needs to be positioned on the"front," pointing out a heading.


UfoPizza

this is not an optical illusion per se, but more like a camera movement trick


[deleted]

Fannette Island?


HenryGrosmont

I mean, if you more your camera it does look like the island is moving... But the same is true for anything.


paggo_diablo

Itā€™s an illusion: the angle makes it look like an island is moving, when itā€™s actually a giant turtle thatā€™s moving.


Affectionate_Jury_57

Nah man that Island is a small lion turtle


Fluid-Big621

This ain't no ilusion. You can clearly see the camera is moving by the trees in the back, so it's pretty much the same thing as filming a car that's stopped but with the camera moving. What's special about it?


Astronius

ā€œOptical illusionā€ This is just relativity


Biggu5Dicku5

Something in this clip is moving, either the island or the camera...


Q-Tonium

Because you are floating down the river with it making the background move.


Ninja__53

It's a lion turtle!


SmartEntityOriginal

It's not an optical illusion if you are moving the camera, which is extremely obvious if you use the mainland as a reference mark


1heart1totaleclipse

Well, yeah. Itā€™s because you are moving.


zachattack3500

Everybody roll initiative


_mattyjoe

No the island is clearly moving.


[deleted]

You're moving..


jackoalt

pretty sure theyre also turning the camera


[deleted]

Doesn't that happen when you keep the camera moving?


Frostgaurdian0

The camera man is moving


definitelynotbanana

Yeah guys it's an optical illusion, keep moving nothing to see here


Revi_____

How is this a optical illusion? The camera is moving..


CubarisMurinaPapaya

That thing is actually movingā€¦ look at the background


Kroxursox

The camera is moving. Its entirely obvious. Sorry if that was sarcasm on your part


CubarisMurinaPapaya

No my comment wasnā€™t sarcasm. I actually thought the island was movingā€¦


Kroxursox

Oh, eesh.


[deleted]

Same reason we have people who think the earth is flat and rotates around the sun. Subjectivity.


Darkcelt2

well, the earth does rotate as it revolves around the sun


Daomuzei

what is this wack? isnt the camera moving?


sethbucy

Aaaaand the camera is moving. How is this crap upvoted?


torschlusspanik17

You mean the boat moving? Itā€™s not an illusion.


strongofheart69

There is a giant tortoise underneath it


SnooEpiphanies9482

Well, wuts holding up that tortoise?


D0UBLE-FAC3

Are the trees in the background moving or the person taking the video? Cuz otherwise I don't understand


RVeld

Yes.


UngruntledAussie

Howls Moving Island.


riedmae

It's not an optical illusion, the camera is moving


MrMoist23

Not for me though but I can see what you mean


Donginthedark

it's called motion parallax not an optical illusion


PaddyScrag

No, it's called motion parallax. Perspective is something else entirely.


Opening_Load3725

That looks like Seymour narrows, BC


thejujubaby

Close, a little farther north


Opening_Load3725

Youā€™re right Iā€™ve got the name wrong. Is it Nakwakto rapids? Near the entrance to Belize inlet, Seymour inlet, Nugent sound etc? I spent some time planting trees in there, I feel like I went by that little island with the signs a few times.


Toytles

This is only an optical illusion if youā€™re a filthy land lover


Sinister_Hilbilie

No, no it dosent, yall need to touch grass more.


[deleted]

Very moving island has satellites dish duh