This helps explain why days seem shorter as we age, the Earth is spinning faster due to the conservation of angular momentum. The days are literally shorter.
A lot less blue too... Hmmmm....
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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667@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
sga@piefed.social 2 months ago
fun fact, days have actually been getting longer pretty much since formation of earth (well moon to be correct). reason iirc is that moon is slowly moving away from earth, and this results in some dynamics changing and as a result earth spins slower. like billions of years ago, it was closer to 23 hours.
ps - very rusty memory right now, should have skipped writing instead of half borked fact
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You’re correct. There are more factors involved too, including climate change, since more ice melting means more water as well, moving the mass away from poles to the center to also be affected by the mind pull too.
All the factors end up changing things by about a millisecond per century. The effect is akin to a spinning figure skater having their arms up over their head vs directly out from their body.
Ooops@feddit.org 2 months ago
Shhh! Don’t let Big Clock know that we are on to them.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Well that’s what happens when you leave it out in the sun
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
No I think it’s because it’s cold in space
Mac@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Nuh uh
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 months ago
There was shrinkage!
NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Good to know it’s still a flat disc
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Amazing how the countries side over it?
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
And gravity!!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Second picture looks smogier and more polluted
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Will the second pic is also at night with a high iso and long exposure plus it’s digiral so there’s a lot more noise going on.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Speaking in generic terms, film is way more forgiving of over exposure and digital is way more forgiving of under exposure. A fast lens is always king, but once you hit parity on that I would personally take digital for low light any day.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
By the way, speaking of changed colours of planets: if you haven’t been keeping up with the latest news in space imagery and want a real mindbender, check out what has recently happened to Neptune. You may have been thinking, ooooh, what an enthralling blue planet! - bzzzzzt, turns out it’s a pretty bland and boring gas giant, the colours were exaggerated on purpose because otherwise you can’t see shit.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I like the pale blue representation, reminds me of blue jade or some old seaglass.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This truly is the worst timeline. Next, they’ll tell us Uranus isn’t gassy too.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Most planets are like this I believe
Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Nebulae especially.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I like how you can see the ring/sphere of atmosphere in the new image.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the new smog layer.
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
To be fair there was a big hole in the ozone in 1970
Fnaargh@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
*smug
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
Does explain the search for the ring itself’ battle.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s because the Sun is behind it.
the_citizen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s getting old, I guess /s
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The magnetic poles must be moving substantially. Africa has rotated almost 90 degrees in a few short decades!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The blue Marble was also photographed “upside down.” We tend to rotate it because the shape of Africa is apparent and familiar. The new shot is taken further West and I think closer to the planet so not as much of its surface is visible.
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Android post processing vs Apple post processing
DanVctr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Went back and looked, actually laughed out loud
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Also looks much more sickly (yes, its because they pumped up the brightness lol)
postscarce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Proof that global warming is not real!!! Read your science… if something gets HOTTER it EXPANDS!!! Those scientist cucks have cucked themselves good this time!!!
/s (in case it’s needed)
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 2 months ago
You got your science all wrong. Global warming is about the earths athmosphere, which is gaseous. When gases get COMPRESSED they become HOTTER. The earth becoming smaller means the atmosphere is becoming SMALLER too, so the gas gets COMPRESSEd! Climate change is because the earth is getting smaller! And they want you to use less oil and gasoline and hook you up to the sun and stuff like heroin addict!!
/s
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where did Africa go?? 😧
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Big if true.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s cold out there in space.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Don’t they know about shrinkage?
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 months ago
It’s because we’re looking at a different side of the planet in the second photo.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yet but still if you superimpose the second image over the first you’ll see the whole planet had gotten smaller.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 months ago
No, I get that. That’s only because we’re looking at a different side. It’s the same size on the other
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In this age of misinformation I realize I can no longer determine if something is a joke.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Plus, that 2d image makes it look flat, like a penny.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
“Ha! I knew the Earth was flat!”
Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
Knowledge is power!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s because the internet made the world smaller.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
continents seem to have moved too… weird.
polydactyl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jerryyyy, Earth is a planet!
the_beber@feddit.org 2 months ago
It‘s like that one planet in SMG.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
with higher gravity it might shrink.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Best I can do is more gravitas in my Lemmy comments. not sure it’s enough for the planet to collapse but I can try, if there’s a chance of it ending our current conundrum
Venat0r@lemmy.world 2 months ago
with shrinking it might higher gravity too
kossa@feddit.org 2 months ago
It’s because the Apollo mission photos were obviously faked. How would they have known how small Earth really is, duh!
RivverRavven@beehaw.org 2 months ago
You dropped this. It means what was said is sarcasm: /s
kossa@feddit.org 2 months ago
I thought it would be double with the ‘duh’.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Its all the fracking
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll need Jerry Smith’s opinion on this one
We are not a celestial dwarf. Earth is a planet.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
happy cake day!
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks!
ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Must be all the oil we’re drilling.
Nah, as President Trump said, “nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.”
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a conspiracy by Big Earth…
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
No wonder it feels more crowded