Are you persistently perceptive plebs?
The following is a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide.
"The ship hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't. It was big, really big, bigger than anything anyone had ever seen before, and it was silver and beautiful and it hung there right over the center of the cricket pitch at Lord's on that fine summer's afternoon. And nobody noticed it. This was partly because it was so big that it was simply assumed to be somebody else's problem, and partly because it was surrounded by an SEP field, which made it effectively invisible unless you looked at it really hard and knew exactly what you were looking for. An SEP is something we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won’t see anything unless you know precisely what it is. Your only chance is to catch a brief glimpse out of the corner of your eye."
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