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 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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667@lemmy.radio 1 month ago
sga@piefed.social 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Shhh! Don’t let Big Clock know that we are on to them.
bottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Well that’s what happens when you leave it out in the sun
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
No I think it’s because it’s cold in space
Mac@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Nuh uh
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 month ago
There was shrinkage!
NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Good to know it’s still a flat disc
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Amazing how the countries side over it?
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 month ago
And gravity!!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Second picture looks smogier and more polluted
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
I like the pale blue representation, reminds me of blue jade or some old seaglass.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This truly is the worst timeline. Next, they’ll tell us Uranus isn’t gassy too.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Most planets are like this I believe
Vupware@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Nebulae especially.
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I like how you can see the ring/sphere of atmosphere in the new image.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s the new smog layer.
razzazzika@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
To be fair there was a big hole in the ozone in 1970
Fnaargh@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
*smug
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 month ago
Does explain the search for the ring itself’ battle.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s because the Sun is behind it.
the_citizen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s getting old, I guess /s
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The magnetic poles must be moving substantially. Africa has rotated almost 90 degrees in a few short decades!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Android post processing vs Apple post processing
DanVctr@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Went back and looked, actually laughed out loud
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Also looks much more sickly (yes, its because they pumped up the brightness lol)
postscarce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Where did Africa go?? 😧
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Big if true.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s cold out there in space.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Don’t they know about shrinkage?
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 month ago
It’s because we’re looking at a different side of the planet in the second photo.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
In this age of misinformation I realize I can no longer determine if something is a joke.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Plus, that 2d image makes it look flat, like a penny.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
“Ha! I knew the Earth was flat!”
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 month ago
Knowledge is power!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s because the internet made the world smaller.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
continents seem to have moved too… weird.
polydactyl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Jerryyyy, Earth is a planet!
the_beber@feddit.org 1 month ago
It‘s like that one planet in SMG.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
with higher gravity it might shrink.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month 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 1 month ago
with shrinking it might higher gravity too
kossa@feddit.org 1 month 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 1 month ago
You dropped this. It means what was said is sarcasm: /s
kossa@feddit.org 1 month ago
I thought it would be double with the ‘duh’.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Its all the fracking
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
happy cake day!
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks!
ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month 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 1 month ago
It’s a conspiracy by Big Earth…
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
No wonder it feels more crowded