Thursday, March 27, 2014

The Plausible Impossible

Mickey jumps through the mirror.
In this video, we saw Mickey Mouse jump through his mirror into a world where all of the laws of nature seem inverted. the possibility of Mickey jumping through his mirror is very slim to none, but at this time, the book Through the Looking Glass was very popular, so anything seemed like it could be possible. But now we know that if you try to jump through your mirror, it will not stretch and eventually give way and allow you to go into another world, but instead it will most likely shatter and you will fall down.




Mickey gets attacked by furniture.
After Mickey went through the mirror, he jumped onto the chair, but then found out that it was alive. The chair made Mickey get off, but then he landed on what appears to be an ordinary footstool, but turns out to be this worlds version of a dog. This is impossible because an inanimate object is, by definition, not alive or capable of living. Walt Disney was able to capture all the living qualities of a person, and a dog in this video, so people believed it.






Mickey grew really big before he shrinks.
Mickey meets a friendly nutcracker, which cracks open a walnut and eats the shell, giving Mickey the walnut. Mickey eats the walnut and grows to the size of a house just before he shrinks down to the size of a mouse. This is not possible because people can't grow that big and then shrink so small in that short of time. People thought this might be possible because all the laws of nature are so inverted in the other side of the mirror.






Mickey uses a fountain pen as a gun.
Mickey is being chased by a bunch of living cards, but he finds a fountain pen that he uses as a gun to keep the cards away for a moment. A pen like this can indeed expel its ink but not with this much force. this one is definitely more plausible than almost everything else in this video, but still not quite possible.












Mickey gets shuffled by the cards.
As we all know, we shuffle cards to keep them random. In this video, Mickey gets shuffled in with all the cards, but there is not a sizable bump in the stack of the cards where Mickey should be, and then when the cards go different directions, Mickey is indeed not flat like the cards made him appear to be. This could be possible if the cards were made of mattresses, but not normal cards.