Novanglus is correct, Randi is dead. He is communicating via a full-body facilitator. There is some doubt that the opinions Randi is expressing are indeed his own or merely the opinions of the facilitator.
Uh.. so we developed a trait that gave advantage to the other guy and lessened our likelihood to succeed in our deception? File this under sociobiology.
I agree with the comments here that suggest everyone is just visualizing the calendar. I do the same. Won't bore you with the "shape". But the real question is this: How is professor Holly Branigan's self-report any different? The conclusion that she has synaesthesia was reached by her thinking "Gee wiz!" just like everyone else on this page.
Actually, you can get an airport Brazilian in 8 locations inside New York's JFK airport and two at LaGuardia. And Amsterdam Schiphol, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Pittsburgh Intl., Philadelphia Intl., San Francisco Intl., Orlando, Las Vegas, Boston Logan, Raleigh-Durham, Detroit Metropolitan, Houston Intercontinental...etc.
Aside from the bad quality of the special effects, a real airplane, having lost its right wing, would spin in the opposite direction than the little plane in this video spins.
"A tightly packed stack of crisp new Cleveland $1,000 bills totaling 1 billion dollars would soar 63 miles high into the earth's atmosphere."
Uh, yeah, if each bill was 4 inches thick. Considering the bills are more like .004 to .005 inches thick the stack would "soar" 330 to 416 feet into the air. Maybe he meant to say "totaling 1 trillion dollars." (I know, I know. I'm nitpicking. I mean really, what's a 999 billion dollar error?)
Me too.
Uh, yeah, if each bill was 4 inches thick. Considering the bills are more like .004 to .005 inches thick the stack would "soar" 330 to 416 feet into the air. Maybe he meant to say "totaling 1 trillion dollars." (I know, I know. I'm nitpicking. I mean really, what's a 999 billion dollar error?)