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What’s your favorite interesting fact? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to c/autism@lemmy.world
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@taetaetoofs@lemmy.world was talking about tornadoes and it was really interesting, figured I’d see what other cool things we all know

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

When projecting a movie, presentation or whatever onto a canvas, anything you see as black (text, etc) is just the pure plain white without light shining on it.

Turn the projector off and the parts that looked black a second ago now look chalk white with no changes done to that part.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is it's all a matter of perspective

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

If you take it as a philosophical metaphor, I guess I would go for "context can change everything" :)