MT is my favorite vacation spot and when I go there I'm visiting not working.
Taking in the scenery is my objective. Mostly looking at the land, not the sky itself except maybe at night
A person living there with an outdoor job - rancher, farmer, truck driver, etc has a task to perform and can't be spending a lot of time daydreaming looking at the sky.
This sort of object isn't exactly standing out against the backdrop. It blends in well.
Glint off a reflecting surface would make it stand out, but aside from that its quite easy to miss.
As someone with a small acreage ranch, I look at the sky quite often. Checking the weather, looking for smoke/fires, watching the birds in between my daily chores. Very few people actually have jobs that require their actual nose to the grindstone.
Well, not so much on a clear day. I think the size was much misrepresented? "The size of 3 busses" was used many times. Actually the area as a flat circle was closer to 36 buses! The volume was equal to 10 1/4 Olympic swimming pools. It was no Death Star, but I think visible to the naked eye?
The images I've seen of this thing are its quite pale in color. Very easy to blend in to the sky and avoid casual notice, even if its fairly sizable.
And people in general aren't observant about things around them.
I remember a couple years ago a TV show on Nat Geo did a few episodes demonstrating just how little people actually see.
In once instance they showed a video with about a dozen people dancing. In the background they had a guy in a dinosaur costume prance through. Most people they showed the video to never saw the dinosaur, even people that were told to look out for the unusual would miss it.
Another instance they had an actor work a customer service counter (wearing a red shirt). The actor would bend down below the counter to 'get something' and an entirely different actor (wearing a blue shirt) would stand up and continue the customer service interaction. Very few people ever recognized that not only did the shirt color change, but the person itself changed.
Re: that customer service counter experiment. How easy it can be to take advantage of someone by first confusing them, doing something totally nonsensical! I'll bet half the people didn't notice the change of person, but the other half did, and didn't say anything because it was just... so weird. Like, um, what just happened? I'm not sure, so I think while I'm trying to find my bearings, I'll pretend it didn't. Even though I know it did.
MT is my favorite vacation spot and when I go there I'm visiting not working.
Taking in the scenery is my objective. Mostly looking at the land, not the sky itself except maybe at night
A person living there with an outdoor job - rancher, farmer, truck driver, etc has a task to perform and can't be spending a lot of time daydreaming looking at the sky.
This sort of object isn't exactly standing out against the backdrop. It blends in well.
Glint off a reflecting surface would make it stand out, but aside from that its quite easy to miss.
As someone with a small acreage ranch, I look at the sky quite often. Checking the weather, looking for smoke/fires, watching the birds in between my daily chores. Very few people actually have jobs that require their actual nose to the grindstone.
The internet in a nutshell:
"This thing is so beautiful that you can't help but look at it."
"INCORRECT BUSY PEOPLE DON'T LOOK AT IT"
Well, not so much on a clear day. I think the size was much misrepresented? "The size of 3 busses" was used many times. Actually the area as a flat circle was closer to 36 buses! The volume was equal to 10 1/4 Olympic swimming pools. It was no Death Star, but I think visible to the naked eye?
The images I've seen of this thing are its quite pale in color. Very easy to blend in to the sky and avoid casual notice, even if its fairly sizable.
And people in general aren't observant about things around them.
I remember a couple years ago a TV show on Nat Geo did a few episodes demonstrating just how little people actually see.
In once instance they showed a video with about a dozen people dancing. In the background they had a guy in a dinosaur costume prance through. Most people they showed the video to never saw the dinosaur, even people that were told to look out for the unusual would miss it.
Another instance they had an actor work a customer service counter (wearing a red shirt). The actor would bend down below the counter to 'get something' and an entirely different actor (wearing a blue shirt) would stand up and continue the customer service interaction. Very few people ever recognized that not only did the shirt color change, but the person itself changed.
Re: that customer service counter experiment. How easy it can be to take advantage of someone by first confusing them, doing something totally nonsensical! I'll bet half the people didn't notice the change of person, but the other half did, and didn't say anything because it was just... so weird. Like, um, what just happened? I'm not sure, so I think while I'm trying to find my bearings, I'll pretend it didn't. Even though I know it did.
.... hmmm sounds like 2020.