And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Take a look at the vertical squares and the thin center lines go the same direction. Look at the horizontal squares and the thin center lines zig zag out of sync, giving the illusion that they are not parallel.
Squint until all the lines are straight - your eyes will be nearly closed but the lines will be straight and parallel. (I live near DC - you have to look at everything like this because nothing is as it seems)
Which blue stripes? I'm seeing light blue vertically, darker blue horizontally. The horizontals definitely aren't parallel to each other.
ReplyDeleteYes they are. Measure the distance between them.
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Holding my iPad level you can see they are indeed straight.
ReplyDeleteone and three are parallel, so are two and four.
ReplyDeleteThey're all parallel.
DeleteTake a look at the vertical squares and the thin center lines go the same direction. Look at the horizontal squares and the thin center lines zig zag
Deleteout of sync, giving the illusion that they are not parallel.
Thank God that's not my GPS display. (!)
ReplyDeleteStupid eyeballs.
ReplyDeleteSquint until all the lines are straight - your eyes will be nearly closed but the lines will be straight and parallel. (I live near DC - you have to look at everything like this because nothing is as it seems)
ReplyDeleteWho you gonna believe... Me, or your damn lyin' eyes?
ReplyDeletePrinted it out and viewed it from the edge. Yep, parallel. Freaky.
ReplyDeleteI have not had enough coffee to look at this.
ReplyDeleteMy...brain...hurts...
ReplyDeleteSquint and you always see the way the world is..... try it.
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