Who grew? Who shrank?

Ok, so this video is at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, CA. Towards the end of the tour. As my other video showed (ball rolling uphill), they use a level to show you that the piece of wood/object we are standing on is level, in this video I happened to start recording after that stage of this demo. Again, no matter what the trees, building (tool shed), or ground is telling you, the piece of wood we are standing on is in fact level. Enjoy!

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[bebouswirl]

Thank you all for coming, stumbleupon users, click the thumbs up!!! Thanks!!

[mws39]

PART2:

0.5 m is not much. For a person like me (1.86) is from the feet to the knees. The formula was quickly derived. You are welcome to correct it if wrong:

arctan (height/2*distance_1) / arctan (height/2*distance_2).

// MWS39 Sweden.

[mws39]

PART1:

Is bebouswirl one of the persons in the video? If so, how tall are you? Do you know the opening angle of the camera used? Or the distance to the camera? Without this we can`t be sure if this is possible or not. Assuming, however, that the guy is 1.85m, that it´s 4 m to the camera, it is enough with 0.5 m position difference for his two positions. Then you get a ratio of, 1,12, which is exactly what I get when measuring his height in the two positions...

[mws39]

This one is the best I have seen so far. The camera is perhaps somewhat to the right of the center, but is this enough to explain this, according to perspective laws? I doubt it. The fact that they stand on a ramp is not important (see previous comments), just measure their relative height in the image. How does the earths roundness come in, earthlingmike? Are you allowed to do the test suggested by bizworker?

[YoshiTheBlue]

@fatallyattractiv89

More important, I mean.

[YoshiTheBlue]

@fatallyattractiv89

So correct me if I'm wrong, but you having fun is more than figuring out the truth?

[fatallyattractiv89]

No, you actually made my day better by confirming what I've already established below ^^

[earthlingmike]

blah blah blah blah...

Did I spoil your day by bursting your bubble and telling you that the Earth is round?

[fatallyattractiv89]

You're like a pest. You're on all the Mystery spot videos. Your two cents have no value. And not because you're a fun-spoiling skeptic but primarily because you don't back up your skepticism with sufficient convincing reasons.

[earthlingmike]

No one can tell anything in this video from the camera tilting back and forth constantly.

[bizworker]

===PART 4

Height & Width: a1 should equal b1 but not a3 or b3. It's not just an optical illusion, but laws of physics. So far no one has found a conclusive scientific reasoning behind what is measured. The ramp is level. Yet, the results will be revealing and don't rely only on one's eye sight.