T-Rex: There's the story that when film was first invented, people in the theatre were so scared of a shot of a train moving towards the camera that they screamed and ran from the room!
T-Rex: BALONEY, I say. Baloney!
T-Rex: Like we all love to think that people in the past were rubes - it's hilarious and what can they do about it? NOTHING, the buncha rubes!! - but if you think about it for a second, is a flickery silent low-framerate grainy black and white 2D train really going to inspire terror? REALLY??
Utahraptor: Not likely! T-Rex: Exactly!
Utahraptor: Unless of course the previous best tech to produce a moving image on wall was a camera obscura - a pinhole in a dark room that results in an image on the opposing wall - in which case they might conclude that IS what's happening, and fear the approaching train.
T-Rex: Aha, but a camera obscura projects UPSIDE-DOWN, so these people still wouldn't be afraid. Unless they were all rubes. Which, as we've previously established: T-Rex: MAYBE??
What are the haps my friends
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April 28th, 2021:All I know is that future generations will judge me kindly and not mock me at all! If you are a member of the future please be nice to me
