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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Lovely picture! Either I don't get the meme part or I can't find Saddam.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

He’s there, in the jpg artifacts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Those aren't the sun in the sky. They're beans.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

All my Lemmings love analemmas

[–] joelfromaus 9 points 1 month ago

It’s how new Lemmings are born.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

🎵 Ooh, my lovely, glowing one, my glowing one
When you gonna trace that line, Analemma?
Ooh, you make the seasons run, the seasons run
Got me followin’ the curve, Analemma

Never gonna stop, tilt it up, Earth's axial bind
I always look it up, to see that figure-8 unwind
My, my, my, ay, ah, wooh!
A-a-a-Analemma

Come a little closer, sun, a-closer, sun
Shining through the path in the sky, Analemma
Keep it in geometry, you’re teasing me
Tracing out the loop with such style, Analemma

Never gonna stop, tilt it up, Earth's axial bind
I always look it up, to see that figure-8 unwind
My, my, my, ay, ah, wooh!
A-a-a-Analemma
A-a-a-Analemma

When you gonna show to me, show to me?
Is it just a matter of time, Analemma?
Is it symmetry, symmetry?
Or is it just a dance in the sky, Analemma?

Never gonna stop, tilt it up, Earth's axial bind
I always look it up, to see that figure-8 unwind
My, my, my, ay, ah, wooh!
A-a-a-a-a-a-a-my, my, my, ay, ah, wooh!

A-a-a-Analemma
A-a-a-Analemma
A-a-a-Analemma
A-a-a-Analemma

Oh, Analemma
Oh, Analemma
*Oh, Analemma!*🎶

(scandalous)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They should've paid for this to be on the radio instead

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hey that's what we call my friend Emma

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does she want more friends?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

sorry i don't think so. she doesn't really like change. she's very uptight and particular about things in a way that... i don't know. i wish there was a word for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Watson or Stone?

(A Lemming's reply when I made the same juvenile joke last time was: 'Thompson, actually')

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what early astronomers thought the orbit was. They believed the earth to be the center of the universe, and couldn't explain the strange orbits of the stars and planets.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And there’s still people out there, believing that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ridiculous. Clearly it's turtles all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just the one turtle. Well, at least per world. I guess two, it you drop off the edge while they're mating.

And there's four elephants down there, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wait. Is that one turtle per dimension, one turtle per universe, or one turtle that lives inside each black hole that’s really just a wormhole to another dimension/universe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nandor the Relentless agrees with you

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Go home, sun. You're drunk.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I count 46 shots. Missed a few weeks.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Or it was overcast on those days. 46/52 is far better than you'd be able to manage in my area.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"Every week" but there are only 46 suns in the image. I will never trust strangers on the internet again

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Instead of making me think about space, the solar system or the universe… this just gives me an existential crisis, visualising how few weeks are actually in a year and how brief a lifetime actually is.

Then I try to think about space instead.

[–] NigelFrobisher 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i think the clouds?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know you spend way too much time on the internet. When your first though at seeing the top of the loop is that it's going to be a penis made out of the sun moving around.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My analemma.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

so clearly sun rotates around earth, in your face Galileo - Church probably

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neat. I naturally assume the very few apparent gaps are due to bad/cloudy weather on those particular days..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There should be 52 suns in the picture

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, that's exactly my point. I counted 46.

You can't expect clear skies every day/week of the year can you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nnnnnnggggg!!

This is highly infuriating! The sun keeps narrowly missing taking out the church spire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So can someone who is more familiar with this subject answer, “Are these pictures taken at the same time of day with or without seasonal adjustments to time (Daylight Savings Time, etc.)?”

I understand why the sun would move vertically over the year due to the tilt of the Earth, but what causes the horizontal movement?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, and therefore the Earth speeds up or slows down depending on where on its orbit it is at the time. In turn this means that the duration of the solar day fluctuates from day to day, from a bit under 24h to a bit over 24h and back.

So if you take a picture every 24h precisely the sun will appear to move horizontally a little bit on top of the expected vertical movement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The Earth’s orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, and therefore the Earth speeds up or slows down depending on where on its orbit it is at the time

That's it! Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The analemma.
Then since that 8-figure is diagonal, the earliest sunset and latest sunrise are about two weeks on either side of the shortest day of the year. Same in summer with the latest sunset and earliest sunrise being a couple of weeks on either side of the longest day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We wobble but we dont fall down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which planet were these pictures taken on? On my planet the sun looks much bigger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

you can change the relative size of things with zoom

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Looks like the diagram for an sp3 hybridized electron orbital

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

you start going insane, and start to hallucinate