Mirage, Vortex or Fake

Scots Taffer on 28/6/2011 at 11:58

(http://gizmodo.com/5815795/can-this-insane-mirage-of-buildings-and-mountains-be-real) It's, like, "Hey, you want to go down to the vortex?" "Yeah, I don't have a husband." I call it "Mirage City."

I have to say, it just doesn't look like it could possibly be a mirage. Wouldn't a mirage be inverted?

I for one welcome our pan-vortex inter-dimensional over-lords.

Koki on 28/6/2011 at 12:09

What? No.

dexterward on 28/6/2011 at 12:12

Doggone mirages - how do they work?

It`s in China - I guess different laws of physics apply. I`ve seen it on films, when they fighting and stuff.

Vernon on 28/6/2011 at 12:33

Pretty hard to see what's what tbh. It looks like a city with trees and mountains in the background. So they're not supposed to be there? It should just be a vast dry desert instead?

:o

Scots Taffer on 28/6/2011 at 13:09

I'm similarly confused by the footage. When it zooms in on those trees... are those meant to be in the river, or not?

gunsmoke on 28/6/2011 at 15:17

Project: Blue Beam at work.

Mingan on 28/6/2011 at 16:35

Like the comments on the page say, it would have been nice to have a comparative image of when there's no mirage; because with just that video, it just a chinese city in the mist.

jimjack on 28/6/2011 at 17:39

That's no mist..it's smog! It distorts everything.

SubJeff on 28/6/2011 at 18:22

There is a link in the comments of the Scots' link that explains it all. Misunderstanding apparently.

henke on 28/6/2011 at 18:30

And here's (http://aukiman.blogspot.com/2011/06/huangshan-city-mirage-all-down-to-bad.html) the link. (had to dig a bit to find it, figured I'd spare everyone else the trouble)