Anamorphic illusions may photograph well, but they are absolutely useless in person. Unless you stand in one particular, precise spot. And are the right height. And don't have stereo vision....
There was a website called "catscan" in the mid 90's (when the internet was not - quite - as cat-photo-powered as it is these days) that was devoted to this. There were many questions at the time as to potential danger to the cats (less of an issue with LED based scanners in use now)
Ahh yes, Watch someone play something you could instead by playing yourself. And something that doesn't involve high skill or intelligence or even technique... just patience. So you aren't even potentially picking up technique or how to or .. much of anything other than passing time? Watching something that needs patience above all other factors to play is perhaps another level of patience again, and all without the potential social exposure and physical exercise perk of playing the game yourself! Sure, sometimes they can be funny or have character, but to me "just 11 minutes into her stream" says more to me than the rest of this. I don't begrudge people doing or watching things they enjoy... but it's like kids being willing to spend so very much time just watching people play Minecraft on youtube. And consuming targetted advertising in the process. Seems far too passive an entertainment to be "paying for" to me. Boggles my mind.
"Garry is greatly incompetent and has done a rubbish job on his junior highschool science project. Universe rated as substandard. Mrs Driver of class 3A"
Hrmm. I worry how long before someone creates an AI to make (and copyright) all possible musical short sequences and release them in mishmashy tracks so they can then troll real musicians. And I'd expect it to be big name labels doing it
"explain class": well, some people are allowed to take more of the benefits and resources the whole society produces because they either have power or it's been habit so far to let them take more.
Geez that USAToday article has a terrible name "Was it from space? Or is there a more earthly explanation?". To answer their question: "if yes it came from space then it's still an Earthly explanation because it's clearly human. Even if aliens exist they are fairly unlikely to have visited us - largescale conspiracies need too many people being inhumanly good at keeping secrets and toeing the company line - and almost definitely wouldn't use human tech like solar panels and balloons". Also they failed to capitalise "Earth". So do they mean soil based? I guess the materials would have been mined...