Question: Explain it so it makes sense to me: how come mirrors flip things side to side but not top to bottom?

[smurfco]

Please could you be explaining this to me? How come it flips the words on my shirt from left to right but not from top to bottom, why is this? Why one way but not the other, how come? ???

 

[Chicken Man]

Your left ear is across from your left ear. It's not flipped.

 

[GomezAddams]

Magnets, bitches.

 

[yabba]

tide goes in, tide goes out; you can't explain that

 

[wok]

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

 

[Peen Simmons]

Here’s a simple experiment that can explain this.

One person stands in a fixed location and holds a mirror facing away.

A second person sits in an airplane holding a mirror facing the first person.

The plane is on a treadmill.

Given all this WHERE THE FUCK DID THAT COPY OF WHALES ON STILTS GO, MUTHERFUCKER?!?!

 

[Tig]

This won't help, so I'm posting it.

 

[baimun]

Mirror… light rays hit the surface and reflect back from a flat surface depending on how square the mirror is from the object.

Lenses are curved, so theyre “focusing” the light rays which end up converging and criss cross.

 

[jbj]

The biggest mystery here is why Americans pronounce it "meeeeeer"

 

[Peen Simmons]

The biggest mystery here is why Americans pronounce it "meeeeeer"

Because we kicked the Queen’s “arse” back in 1492 so we didn’t have to call it a “shiny whotzit” like you lot.

USA! USA! USA!

 

[jbj]

Because we kicked the Queen’s “arse” back in 1492 so we didn’t have to call it a “shiny whotzit” like you lot.

USA! USA! USA!

Only to have Jack Nicholson's seminal portrayal of The Joker spoiled by demanding a meeer several times during the bandage removal scene.

 

[mongooz]

The plane is on a treadmill.

 

[2manband]

It's because your eyeballs are arranged side to side, not top to bottom

 

[DdBob]

Magnets

 

[jelloman]

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Turn your shirt so the words are sideways.

 

[Honkridge]

O'Boisies would be spelled seisioB'O

 

[smurfco]

O'Boisies would be spelled seisioB'O

Now I get it! Thank you!

 

[Monson]

The flipping is in your mind, bro.