It's a bird!.. It's a Plane!.. It's..
 

...Venus!

A Boeing 767 pilot mistakes a planet for a plane..

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/17/...ticle-mostpop1

Nice to know my pilot could be sleeping while I'm on my way to my destination. ;)

Good job he missed it :)

im tired of saying it our depth perception is flawed, this proves it

i know pretty much for sure since i have had real depth perception as in a 3d movie several times in my life , BUT JUST FOR SECONDS

im pretty sure by gnut that if am able to keep that perception beyond a minute ill go 4 dimesnional and achieve enlightenment

animals dont have that depth perception that seems to be a next stage in evolution i can tell casue otherwise zebra camouflage would be useless since its design so lions cant tell where starts one and ends the other

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOuXt...eature=related

me to.

is there any test for pilots for depth perception?

obviously this pilot had none

Just having 2 eyes that work mean you have depth perception, it's the reason we have 2 eyes.

well so would you say that pilot had depth perception?

certainly he must see pretty well with both eyes to be an airliner pilot

eh? I hope you don't mean that animals do not have depth perception... of course they do, or your lion would not be able to pounce on their dinner. All two -eyed critters have depth perception.
What animals don't have is an understanding of differentiation of textures... they see the grass the tree shrubs and their dinner hiding motionless out in the open as all the same, they see the fur ruffling in the breeze but don't recognise/ distinguish that as being "different" from the rustling of the surrounding grass or leaves.
They do, however, understand movement (and if it moves, pounce on it).
Haven't you ever wondered why a critter will take to hiding motionless face in in a bush, leaving their bum exposed and the predator just walks on by?

Yes he had depth perception, he just got alarmed when he saw a very bright light in front of him, human beings have not quite evolved quckly enough to keep up with our techology, our depth perception was only designed to be able cope with life on the ground not for travelling in a pressurised aluminium tube full of farts at 500mph.

well im gonna try to manipulated the threads of time so humanity go 4th dimensional the sooner:

i propose this test for pilots to test the lever of stereoscopy:

look to this through the image to overimpose both images

the farther i get is to depth 7 what about you?

http://smallbasic.com/smallbasic.com/program/?MHH970

How can there be a 'level' of stereoscopy? you either see in stereo or you don't, I can tell the monitor is about 2 feet in front of me as I type, a chest of drawers is about 9 feet away from me, but telling the difference between 5 miles or 6 miles becomes much more difficult on judgement alone.

what the hell is that prog meant to do? all I see are 2 vertical bars that break and the angle of break increases according to the number you put in.

one of the first thing they teach you when flying is that if an object stays in the same spot on your windscreen/window in the air it means you're on collision course. Considering the stress of the situation, it's not that surprising, and I'd rather fly with a cautious than an overconfident pilot.

As for the passenger that got injured, that hopefully will teach them a lesson about keeping the bloody seatbelt fastened when they're told to. I always recommend to keep the seatbelt fastened all the way through the flight, because when something as unexpected as this happen, first thing to get hurt will be your head smashing against the luggage compartment.

you have to look at it as an stereogram youll see varying depth till it gets lost

it can measure the level of stereopsis

http://smallbasic.com/smallbasic.com/program/?MHH970

i designed it to train my stereopsis farther

No. Zebra pattern is evolved because black and white stripes attract far fewer biting flies. Nothing to do with large cats, who can obviously tell the head from the tail.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...es-finall.html

For God's sake Raaaid, get out and play a game that involves a bat and a ball and then come back and tell us that we don't have depth perception! A bit of fresh air might do you some good.

raaaid please stop hijacking every topic with your rambling nonsense!!! :evil:

Jesus! It's like trying to have a conversation among adults and a kid keeps on interrupting!

yeah sorry ill keep the 3d perception to my other thread though im pretty sure thats the reason of the pilot mistake

thanks for the kid compliment :)

That explains why it is completely useless

I can assure you it's not the reason

ah ... i wondered why the birds around here keep flying into trees and knocking themselves out.

what a stupid video, how can you have a 2-D world, anything with mass / boundries / enclosure, must have 3 dimensions even if the 3rd dimension is only 1 atom high.

Stupid pilot didn't check his radar or TCAS ??

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No he had just been woken from a nap and come into the cabin. He was then told that he would be passing a military aircraft going in the opposite direction 1000ft below but then saw Venus and thought he was about to hit head on, so I guess no time to check, and he dived the aircraft 500ft. The injured passengers were not buckled up even though the lights were on.

lol