Hilarious QI Moment - Phil Jupitus Hates QI

Phil Jupitus snaps when he gets told that the sun is not where it seems to be.

From QI XL Series H, episode 15 "Hypnosis, Hallucinations & Hysteria".

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[leaguesmanoframsgate]

@qwertzu3 Ronni d'Ancona. Also, you're extremely creepy and should be on some sort of register.

[TheDavePod]

Miraaaaaaaaaaaaage!

[rogerthat155]

Why say it's not 'actually there' when actuality is actually what we're seeing? Why confuse thousands of people and fill their minds with a lasting and cynical impression just because the sun appears, from something ELSE, to not be there? Isn't what actually matters what we're seeing right now with our eyes? They'll put any old shit on this show just to get Oohs and Aahs from people who have too much spare time.

[Wholoveschickens]

@ElzoSmid1 the horizon is the point at which the curvature of the earth makes you unable to view land or sea beyond it. thereforebased on your position the horizon has a physical location you could arrive to but would no longer be considered the horizon when you reach it

[deadpassive]

@ElzoSmid1 I think you know I did not mean that the world ends there - it cannot end because it is a sphere! You're right, it is the line where the visible earth ends - but it is an Actual Line. One can draw a line on the surface of a sphere which marks the point where visibility ends as seen from a given position. Again, it is a physical, actual position.

[ElzoSmid1]

@deadpassive "the line where the earth ends" you know as I do, that the word doesn't really end there, its the line where the world that is visible to us ends, 100% perception.

[deadpassive]

@ElzoSmid1 That's a very limited definition of a "physical thing". Anyway, to the viewer the horizon is the line where the earth ends and is no longer visible (I explained this). If this line is extended out to infinity then the earth can indeed be "below the horizon" yet still be visible due to gravitational effects. The horizon is not simple "something we perceive".

[ElzoSmid1]

@deadpassive If it was a physical thing, you would be albe to go there and grab it.

[deadpassive]

@ElzoSmid1 Of course the horizon is a physical thing, we live on a planet that is (roughly) spherical. The horizon is the point at which there is no more planet left to look at.

[CrissCross407]

@JaCkMiChEaLs0n It's good for you :)

[itsonlykano87]

Phil, please stop doing a Stewart Lee impression.

[reznor12]

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