Fata Morgana-Boats That Float In The Air

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  • Опубліковано 15 лют 2021
  • In this video I show you how it is possible for a boat to float in the air. I talk about Fata Morgana and Looming. Then I show you a real life example that you can do at home that bends light in this same way.
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    Floating sailboat: • GHOST BOAT
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  • @TheActionLab
    @TheActionLab  3 роки тому +281

    Had to fly to Florida to find some ghost ships for this one, sorry about the bad audio!

    • @cyberpunk0208
      @cyberpunk0208 3 роки тому +10

      Can I see sharks swimming above the water too?

    • @tomasgarza1249
      @tomasgarza1249 3 роки тому +5

      The title of the video made me think of an experiment I saw a long time ago. A paper ship floating on sulphur hexafluoride gas. It would be cool to see that in the channel

    • @sharmacinema12
      @sharmacinema12 3 роки тому +1

      No problem it's ok sir.

    • @jimbobbob2741
      @jimbobbob2741 3 роки тому +6

      You went to Florida for 50 seconds of video. Ooookay so how far were the boats at how far away was the horizon did you forget to take a hat as well?

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah 3 роки тому +7

      UA-cam must pay better than I thought!

  • @todaywefly4370
    @todaywefly4370 3 роки тому +32

    I once sent a couple of years on a property that was completely surrounded by flat country for 30 miles in every direction. Imagine my surprise one morning to wake up to hills, complete with random trees, across the entire horizon. Even more intriguing was that as I watched over 20 minutes it slowly sank into oblivion. Only ever saw it the once but apparently it used to occur a lot.

  • @PlasmaChannel
    @PlasmaChannel 3 роки тому +441

    This was a really great demonstration, and I’d never heard of the image flipping entirely. Now, I’ll sit back with my popcorn and wait for the flat earth comments 🙃

    • @jaemyncole6257
      @jaemyncole6257 3 роки тому +4

      Bruh i was thinking that too

    • @AllThatInterestingStuff
      @AllThatInterestingStuff 3 роки тому +6

      @MR.POTATO how is "floating" boats prove that the earth is flat? Asking the real question here... And btw, you did not watch the full video, he explains this at the end.

    • @AllThatInterestingStuff
      @AllThatInterestingStuff 3 роки тому +3

      @MR.POTATO What is your argument? He explained it near the end of the video. Just listen.

    • @raiideen3890
      @raiideen3890 3 роки тому +1

      Pog

    • @Bigjeffrey123
      @Bigjeffrey123 3 роки тому +2

      @Eye Sea Clearly i got a curved mirror here

  • @GeyzsonKristoffer
    @GeyzsonKristoffer 3 роки тому +303

    Action lab: “Recently”
    UA-cam: 10 years ago

    • @neelanshupanigrahi2553
      @neelanshupanigrahi2553 3 роки тому +8

      I think its 11 years ago !! Sir

    • @hsavietto
      @hsavietto 3 роки тому +20

      When you are over 40 you tend to think that the 90's was like 10 years ago... :-(

    • @darishdias
      @darishdias 3 роки тому +2

      so in real life the water is not rendered

    • @hmmmtietmetmosterd
      @hmmmtietmetmosterd 3 роки тому

      @@hsavietto bleh yeah thanks for making me feel old

    • @hsavietto
      @hsavietto 3 роки тому +1

      @@hmmmtietmetmosterd welcome to the club, brother! ;-)

  • @kutsen39
    @kutsen39 3 роки тому +12

    This also explains the Flying Dutchman. Especially if sailors saw a ship slowly loom into view, upside down and floating over the water, only to slowly fade out of existence again. If you didn't know about this phenomenon, it would be easy to be unnerved, especially if the mate starts talking ghost stories, about a ship a hundred years ago that never made it back to port because of a bad storm.

  • @RavenLuni
    @RavenLuni 3 роки тому +21

    Everyone: "whatever floats your boat"
    Action Lab: "Refraction"

  • @buelliganx1
    @buelliganx1 3 роки тому +41

    I saw this one when I was flying up to Lake Erie in a small airplane, pretty cool effect and it taught me a valuable lesson about how deceiving your senses can be when you're piloting an aircraft

  • @AaronGRandall
    @AaronGRandall 3 роки тому +1

    This is one of those great examples of why the Earth is NOT flat. Great video! Keep it up!

  • @Commenter26
    @Commenter26 3 роки тому +55

    Captain: I am going to name my ship Dinnerbone
    Dinnerbone: 5:05

  • @OhThatEdit
    @OhThatEdit 3 роки тому +182

    Awesome! Reflections are pretty cool. You can also do this with gasses ;o

    • @daphenomenalz4100
      @daphenomenalz4100 3 роки тому +7

      It's Refraction here😅,

    • @raiideen3890
      @raiideen3890 3 роки тому +1

      Pog

    • @Amira_Phoenix
      @Amira_Phoenix 3 роки тому

      How do you do it with glasses? 😎 or 🤓? I really would like to know.

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS 3 роки тому

      You certainly can! They have to be gases with a very high refractive index relative to the air.

    • @raiideen3890
      @raiideen3890 3 роки тому +1

      The comments above and below are big brain

  • @CaptainSlow93
    @CaptainSlow93 3 роки тому +138

    Nahh that boat is just asserting dominance over other boats

    • @yellow_flash813
      @yellow_flash813 3 роки тому +4

      Hell yea it is , I'm getting Alpha Boat vibes from his boat 😂

  • @Darshil-P
    @Darshil-P 3 роки тому +13

    I'm Impressed by the Explanation you came up with but actually, you just have to increase your render distance. The far away Ocean is not rendered but the entities are therefore they seem as if they are floating!
    Such phenomena are very common in Minecraft.
    If you already have your render distance maxed out then you simply have to wait few seconds for it to load.

  • @PK-ts5jy
    @PK-ts5jy 3 роки тому +5

    Best explanation of the phenomenon I’ve ever seen on the internet. Kudos!

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS 3 роки тому +9

    @The Action Lab The videos you showed at 1:08 are actually examples of inferior mirage, which is by far the most common type of mirage over water. It's caused by water being significantly warmer than the air above it. You can tell because there's an inverted image below the ship. The reflection of the sky in the water makes it look like the ships are floating above the water. The Fata Morgana mirages, and the non-mirage looming, is rarer, and occurs over water that is colder than the air. They're more common in California.

  • @suleimanshaba3941
    @suleimanshaba3941 2 роки тому +1

    "you can't always trust your eyes". So easy to understand yet many people can't understand. This video really explains how the optics work on earth. 3:37 to 4:00 tells a lot.

  • @mauriziomaselli2007
    @mauriziomaselli2007 3 роки тому +5

    Good video. Just a small correction: at minute 3:38 you see the edge of the box bent downwards. That’s actually light bent upwards at the interface between glass and air. You must be careful how you use that box, as it doesn’t always reproduce the atmosphere as we see it. We are like inside the box, and effects due to the interface between the box and the air outside can be misleading.

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS 3 роки тому +30

    I've done many at home experiments with liquid nitrogen and butane to show this effect on a smaller scale. It's really cool! You can get mirages and/or looming.

  • @user-wr2uy9pj4m
    @user-wr2uy9pj4m 3 роки тому +3

    That's really good!!!
    Also I think it's pronounced with an hard G
    Also you can watch Captain Dissilution's video that talks a bit about it, it's called "debunking the floating city" or something like that

  • @shashank7220
    @shashank7220 3 роки тому +2

    He never clickbaits us and that's why I love him

  • @tejashrimaske908
    @tejashrimaske908 3 роки тому +2

    *This guy has awesome topics !!*

  • @xtramaze-musicmaster9165
    @xtramaze-musicmaster9165 3 роки тому +104

    Alternative title: Minecraft glitches in real life

    • @RavenArtzy
      @RavenArtzy 2 роки тому

      Why is it always minecraft.

  • @sohamkulkarni3034
    @sohamkulkarni3034 3 роки тому +71

    "Recently on the internet"
    Video: September 26, 2010

    • @mas5621
      @mas5621 3 роки тому +3

      Was thinking the same that's centuries in internet time 😂

  • @georgeleal8357
    @georgeleal8357 3 роки тому

    The best physics channel on youtube for sure.

  • @tomioka.6703
    @tomioka.6703 3 роки тому

    I saw these effects irl a few weeks back! Thanks for teaching me what it was!

  • @rotirapcool7759
    @rotirapcool7759 3 роки тому +5

    Dammm!! Always interesting 😉

  • @tar3712
    @tar3712 3 роки тому +3

    Mind : Blown

  • @JohnnieHougaardNielsen
    @JohnnieHougaardNielsen 3 роки тому +2

    The initial image of the "floating" sailboat is not a Fata Morgana, but a false horizon. Due to optical circumstances, what appears to be the horizon line is lower than the geometric horizon, and then a boat floating quite normally on the water can be in the zone where the water surface looks like sky. As correctly explained later in the video, a Fata Morgana includes some upside-down effect.

  • @therealzilch
    @therealzilch 3 роки тому

    Nicely explained, and a very cool demonstration with the tank of water.

  • @maheshdev5772
    @maheshdev5772 3 роки тому +31

    Recently on the internet:2010

    • @andricode
      @andricode 3 роки тому

      And that was a decade ago, but it makes sense, the internet existed since two decades, so it's the half

  • @DoonTheFox
    @DoonTheFox 3 роки тому +24

    I kinda wish the title had just been "Boats That Floats" 😂

  • @Sunitabishtsona
    @Sunitabishtsona 3 роки тому

    Simply great demonstration 👍

  • @bhanukarni
    @bhanukarni 3 роки тому

    Awesome collection

  • @glockparaastra
    @glockparaastra 3 роки тому +3

    I loved learning about Optics in Physics at university. So interesting. They eye is easily fooled.

  • @oldally8869
    @oldally8869 3 роки тому +43

    "So *recently* there was a *picture* of a floating boat in the internet.*
    **shows a video from 2010**

  • @Val.Laroche.239
    @Val.Laroche.239 2 роки тому

    I just had a question I had about something in a book answered right now, thanks to this video.

  • @catatonicbug7522
    @catatonicbug7522 3 роки тому

    Interesting timing on this. The Weather Channel just posted a picture of this exact phenomenon happening with a cargo ship just a few days ago.

  • @marzbroz420
    @marzbroz420 3 роки тому +24

    Ahhh! Forget this glitch also.
    Please report to improve this simulation.
    (Earth corona patch ver-02)2021.

  • @silvasen1985
    @silvasen1985 3 роки тому +3

    Very pog boat moment

    • @nou4898
      @nou4898 3 роки тому

      steam explosion

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS 3 роки тому +2

    @The Action Lab Really nice demonstrations! I love refraction, and have done many experiments with it myself. The flipping of the image is because of a principle of symmetry. I've been meaning to make a video explaining how it works.

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS 3 роки тому

      @Deborah Ajao Hopefully I'll actually make it soon

  • @therical77
    @therical77 3 роки тому

    More action less talk love to see more different experiments to replicate the experience.

  • @brettaspivey
    @brettaspivey 3 роки тому +3

    This prism effect also causes chromatic dispersion, which is the reason you can sometimes see the green flash at sunset

  • @gokul3895
    @gokul3895 3 роки тому +3

    What in the world!😯😵

  • @mrsangelleah1981
    @mrsangelleah1981 2 роки тому

    Wow that's amazing! Thanks!

  • @matthewsaulsbury3011
    @matthewsaulsbury3011 3 роки тому +1

    Wow, this is amazing and cool! 👍🏻😀

  • @16-fahimjaman13
    @16-fahimjaman13 3 роки тому +43

    The boat be like
    It's time to leave the earth

  • @KLCofHoustonTexas
    @KLCofHoustonTexas 3 роки тому +5

    20th...

  • @Amira_Phoenix
    @Amira_Phoenix 3 роки тому +2

    If one looks closer to the true images of Fata Morgana, one would notice that the images of ships have distortions: like a ship and its reflection below clipped together, even if the whole thing floats above the horizon. According to the principle of this illusion it makes sense: the reflected light cuts and pastes whatever is just above the water, an that includes the reflected image of the boat on the water surface! That's why you don't see the boat's curved belly. The viral video at the beginning is probably doctored since it doesn't represent the illusion in its entirety.

  • @jaisuriyar5259
    @jaisuriyar5259 3 роки тому

    Wow that was mind blowing. Amazing

  • @COALEDasICE
    @COALEDasICE 3 роки тому +5

    This is exactly how that photo was taken where you could see the Chicago skyline across the lake. Flat earthers

  • @tupahutuokoneiswife3972
    @tupahutuokoneiswife3972 3 роки тому +5

    Flat earthers will now claim we are flat, but now breathing sugar water!

  • @247_sirazulmonir9
    @247_sirazulmonir9 3 роки тому +1

    learning new things everyday from you, thanks

  • @jimmyt_1988
    @jimmyt_1988 3 роки тому +2

    The boat in the news that looked like it was floating could have also been because there was less wind further away so the water was more reflective reflecting the light blue of the sky... If you look, the horizon is visible, so it's likely to be that instead this time around. You also have the same affect closer to the rocks in the picture as additional evidence of that.

  • @abcd-xm3to
    @abcd-xm3to 3 роки тому +3

    Hi sir🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️👋
    Love from INDIA🤩

    • @abcd-xm3to
      @abcd-xm3to 3 роки тому

      @@SnickersEatsCookies that's awesome man

    • @rafiqiman208
      @rafiqiman208 3 роки тому

      Love from Malaysia🇲🇾
      Nice to meet you😁😀

  • @politicalfoolishness7491
    @politicalfoolishness7491 3 роки тому +24

    I think some flat earth believers are singing in choir watching this - REEEEEEEEE

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah 3 роки тому +1

      This is proof that the Second Order of Bahamut was right and the Earth is actually an inverted sphere. People talk about digging a hole to China, but in reality, we would have to build a ladder to China.

    • @_FirstLast_
      @_FirstLast_ 3 роки тому

      @@chitlitlah I'm confused ....so you would pass by our moon, our sun, seven planets, and all the rest of the known cosmos on your way up the ladder to China? I guess you'd still have to ignore all of aviation, satellite technology, and space exploration in general (to name a few) or does the Second Order explain those away somehow?
      Or is this just a dive into a sort of hyperbolic/non-euclidean geometry

  • @MuhammadDaudkhanTV100
    @MuhammadDaudkhanTV100 3 роки тому

    Fantastic idea and cool

  • @colbynye5995
    @colbynye5995 3 роки тому

    Great explanation, thanks!

  • @woodenwood8022
    @woodenwood8022 3 роки тому +5

    The action lab at 2050 : I make a blackhole float onMy mouth

    • @geopioneergsxr5357
      @geopioneergsxr5357 3 роки тому +1

      You can do that right now! Just go to a strip club..

  • @mkpinganYT
    @mkpinganYT 3 роки тому +10

    This reminds me of Gta :vice city 🤔

  • @JAMDJAMD
    @JAMDJAMD 3 роки тому +2

    This is one of the theories about why the lookouts on the Titanic didn't see the iceberg until it was too late.

  • @nguyenminhduc6990
    @nguyenminhduc6990 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much for interesting explanation.

  • @jayj9278
    @jayj9278 3 роки тому +4

    but why some of these "floating" images are inverted and some of them are not?

    • @pintaridergaming
      @pintaridergaming 3 роки тому +2

      He literally explained in the video

    • @jayj9278
      @jayj9278 3 роки тому

      @@pintaridergaming 4:58 he says when effect is really strong but what does that exactly mean?

    • @TooHarshForYou
      @TooHarshForYou 3 роки тому

      @@jayj9278 it means the light coming from the bottom of the ship is bent stronger than that coming from the top (air has to be really dense at the bottom for this to happen) so the bottom portion of the ship is shown above the top one making it look inverted.

  • @Frankyouknow
    @Frankyouknow 3 роки тому +3

    So the atmosphere makes flat things curved. Wow thanks for confirming the earth is flat.

    • @buckwarp1475
      @buckwarp1475 3 роки тому

      thx for confirming you cant process any information

    • @Frankyouknow
      @Frankyouknow 3 роки тому +1

      @@buckwarp1475 Thanks for confirming you don't understand refraction.

    • @buckwarp1475
      @buckwarp1475 3 роки тому

      @@Frankyouknow thx for confirming dunning-kruger effect.

    • @buckwarp1475
      @buckwarp1475 3 роки тому

      @@spacexsays3227 are you planing to ctrl v all day long or will say something dumb so we all can laugh at you?

    • @Frankyouknow
      @Frankyouknow 3 роки тому

      @@buckwarp1475 Its ok!

  • @anoimo9013
    @anoimo9013 3 роки тому

    very good explanation. would be nice to see a timelapse video of a sunset or sunrise showing that the speed of the sun changes more rapid around the horizon

  • @jafinch78
    @jafinch78 3 роки тому

    Awesome! Great details.

  • @JohnDlugosz
    @JohnDlugosz 3 роки тому +8

    I was expecting an aquarium full of sodium hexafluoride.

    • @thefuzzman
      @thefuzzman 3 роки тому

      Same here lol

    • @thefuzzman
      @thefuzzman 3 роки тому

      Wait a second, it's sulfur hexaflouride, not sodium. You caught me not paying total attention to your comment.

  • @sailajap.8366
    @sailajap.8366 3 роки тому +10

    Only legends know that he used clips from previous videos...🔥

  • @WayneCXT99
    @WayneCXT99 3 роки тому

    Thanks man... I now understand mirage more

  • @superemma9251
    @superemma9251 3 роки тому

    Thank you for these informations I really learn alot from you

  • @bahumatneo
    @bahumatneo 3 роки тому +3

    Im starting to think he might still be able to see the ball.

  • @16-fahimjaman13
    @16-fahimjaman13 3 роки тому +4

    Well hello there early gang.

  • @abhiramreddy4849
    @abhiramreddy4849 3 роки тому +1

    Really well explained, nice video

  • @SuV33358
    @SuV33358 Рік тому

    So cool . You can also see Toronto from lake Ontario Rochester NY sometimes. It's pretty amazing!

  • @yuzamei
    @yuzamei 3 роки тому +11

    The owner of that boat be like:
    “What should I drink?”
    “Whatever floats your boat”
    *drinks air*

    • @Redy95s
      @Redy95s 3 роки тому +1

      Such an underrated comment smh

  • @sovietbot6708
    @sovietbot6708 3 роки тому +24

    A flat earther is probably going to use this video as "evidence" the earth is flat

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle 3 роки тому +1

      Wouldn’t help the flat earth theories at all
      this is more a donut earth

    • @dove6069
      @dove6069 3 роки тому

      @@ZaHandle it would because it would explain why its curved 🤔

    • @wertiaaudit5746
      @wertiaaudit5746 3 роки тому

      The earth is flat. Read the book. Wages stay flat while rent goes up. That's what people mean when they say the earth is flat. On every level of the economy, it is flat thus the earth is flat, even in other economies of other species

    • @ZaHandle
      @ZaHandle 3 роки тому

      @@wertiaaudit5746 they got us in the first half not gonna lie

    • @hannocoetzer8763
      @hannocoetzer8763 3 роки тому +1

      I am going to use this video as evidence that the earth is flat

  • @chago7995
    @chago7995 3 роки тому

    This channel is dope

  • @lxscy5608
    @lxscy5608 3 роки тому

    Keep up the good contents bro :)

  • @xxthelinkxx3296
    @xxthelinkxx3296 3 роки тому +4

    Those damn lightbenders are behind it once again >:(

  • @itsdonaldo
    @itsdonaldo 3 роки тому +3

    "Who are you going to trust, me or your lyin eyes?" Groucho

  • @oyen9476
    @oyen9476 3 роки тому

    Beautiful beach dude!

  • @vedanttulsyan
    @vedanttulsyan 3 роки тому +2

    Best Physics Channel

  • @MickWest
    @MickWest 3 роки тому +7

    The "boat floating in the air" is not a mirage. It's a region of water further out from the shore that's calmer than the near water. At shallow angles this more completely reflects the sky.
    Mirages are inverted and distorted. These are not. They are not mirages.

    • @dzengerbenger
      @dzengerbenger 3 роки тому +2

      definately, you can even see the horizon if you look close enough

    • @user-kn1yc6pu5h
      @user-kn1yc6pu5h 3 місяці тому

      That’s right

  • @JackHandelman
    @JackHandelman 3 роки тому +3

    For a second I thought it was going to be a tank of sulfur hecafoouride

  • @todd-makes-videos
    @todd-makes-videos 3 роки тому

    Crazy. The last video I just watched was your light bending one from a year ago that you reference. Haha. I'm new still and catching up on content.

  • @sasibala8818
    @sasibala8818 3 роки тому

    A great explanation 🔥🔥💯💯

  • @jessevanderhamm
    @jessevanderhamm 3 роки тому +5

    Dude, I’ve been struggling with understanding the long distance observations that flat earthers have been making and it’s been confusing me for literally the last 2 years. I’ve tried to find explanations to their observations and until I saw this video, I almost started to think that they were right...

  • @seiku8338
    @seiku8338 3 роки тому +3

    :)

  • @reineb161
    @reineb161 3 роки тому

    Thank You So much! I finally get it

  • @MammaOVlogs
    @MammaOVlogs 3 роки тому +1

    Wow that is awesome I love it fun at the beach

  • @RocketsharK7
    @RocketsharK7 3 роки тому +3

    Or the earth is flat...

  • @muhammad_abdulla
    @muhammad_abdulla 3 роки тому +4

    മലയാളി ഉണ്ടോ?

  • @guy1728
    @guy1728 3 роки тому +1

    Cool stuff

  • @vinaykumar6499
    @vinaykumar6499 3 роки тому +1

    Extraordinary

  • @sendintheclowns7305
    @sendintheclowns7305 3 роки тому +11

    0:33
    "That far away boat is sinking!"
    Flat Earther

  • @huntergaming2336
    @huntergaming2336 3 роки тому +4

    Imagine if we can make cars that float

    • @xxthelinkxx3296
      @xxthelinkxx3296 3 роки тому +1

      People 50 years ago be like:

    • @HYEpower
      @HYEpower 3 роки тому

      I invented this, it used hydrogen gas liquid and compressed air gas to create plasma discharge more efficient than jet fuel to create rotating magnetic fields of plamsa with quasi stable electric field electron vortex. It used helium gas 2 degrees Kelvins or as cold as possible to cool the atoms down while the electrons stay hot. I invented this in 2009, government is sold out to big oil. I sent the invention to Armenian president in 2020 and asked it be built with russia money because they are poor. Now russia announced 2021 it is in process of patenting a flying car and from what iv seen looks like its plasma based like my invention.. china also took another invention of mine a jet engine that uses compressed gass for plasma jet more efficient than jet fuel. Everyone laughed in 2009 but china proved my theory in 2020.

  • @kevlezc97
    @kevlezc97 3 роки тому

    I have the same shirt and it's amazing!!

  • @lakshmisaienterprise9002
    @lakshmisaienterprise9002 3 роки тому

    Very good video

  • @nicorace123
    @nicorace123 3 роки тому +4

    Looks like flat to me ........ Earth is flat

    • @DaP84
      @DaP84 3 роки тому

      Flat head - flat earth

  • @nenepicareta
    @nenepicareta 3 роки тому +2

    FLAT Earth ______________

  • @todaytrendings3547
    @todaytrendings3547 3 роки тому

    Simply superb 🤠 🙂

  • @Qipxel
    @Qipxel 3 роки тому +2

    very interesting every time