Infinity
Submitted 6 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/40a185b0-047a-4a13-9b8f-e9e82bb9b6d3.jpeg
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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 days ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
All my Lemmings love analemmas
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 6 days ago
It’s how new Lemmings are born.
IDew@lemm.ee 6 days ago
💀💀
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
🎵 *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*
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Watson or Stone?
(A Lemming’s reply when I made the same juvenile joke last time was: ‘Thompson, actually’)
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
BennyInc@feddit.org 6 days ago
And there’s still people out there, believing that.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Ridiculous. Clearly it’s turtles all the way down.
lunarul@lemmy.world 6 days ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think I count 46 shots. Missed a few weeks.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Or it was overcast on those days. 46/52 is far better than you’d be able to manage in my area.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Go home, sun. You’re drunk.
HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 5 days 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.
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 days ago
“Every week” but there are only 46 suns in the image. I will never trust strangers on the internet again
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 days ago
Where is Saddam?
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
i think the clouds?
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 days ago
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.
altasshet@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Makes me think of Anathem
nik9000@programming.dev 6 days ago
My analemma.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 days ago
so clearly sun rotates around earth, in your face Galileo - Church probably
over_clox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Neat. I naturally assume the very few apparent gaps are due to bad/cloudy weather on those particular days…
d00ery@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There should be 52 suns in the picture
over_clox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, that’s exactly my point. I counted 46.
You can’t expect clear skies every day/week of the year can you?
ace_garp@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Nnnnnnggggg!!
This is highly infuriating! The sun keeps narrowly missing taking out the church spire.
Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Which planet were these pictures taken on? On my planet the sun looks much bigger.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
you can change the relative size of things with zoom
sudo42@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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?
Balinares@pawb.social 6 days 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. 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.
sudo42@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 days 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.frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Looks like the diagram for an sp3 hybridized electron orbital
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We wobble but we dont fall down
DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff
montechristo@feddit.org 6 days ago
Lovely picture! Either I don’t get the meme part or I can’t find Saddam.
Fester@lemm.ee 6 days ago
He’s there, in the jpg artifacts
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Those aren’t the sun in the sky. They’re beans.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The meme is that there is no meme, and the picture is just doctored - the sun doesn’t follow that pattern at all…
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 6 days ago
It absolutely does, my friend. It’s called the analemma.