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Re-reading this article, it makes me think of the BF Skinner pigeon experiments where he described superstitions. It also reminds me of human pattern recognition and how humans will see things when they're not there.

Perhaps the falling man fell in that way by chance? I guess we'll never know, but let's not draw wild and probably invalid conclusions.

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Perhaps the falling man fell in that way by chance? I guess we'll never know, but let's not draw wild and probably invalid conclusions.

Agreed, but the article does take pains to cover this very thing. They mentioned that there were something like 11 other photos snapped of the man as he fell and, by sheer chance, the photographer caught this angle in one of the frames. In the other frames, the guy didn't look majestic . . . he looked like a guy falling 100 stories.

I read that part time and am not convinced. It's like when people see the image of Mary in a piece of wood or toast. We see what we want to believe.

I skimmed some parts of it so I may be hallucinating this, but again, I could have sworn this point was made in the article. Ah well.

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