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If you wanted to see what it would be like if the world truly did revolve around you, here is a really cool image sequence where the camera view is held fixed to the background stars: https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h
Watch 24 hours of the earth's rotation
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15, @04:03AM
Very cool, thanks for the link!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday June 15, @01:36PM
Began to think i was in some weird xkcd comic!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday June 15, @05:22PM (3 children)
I'm pretty sure there's documented evidence of proof that the Earth is flat. Just look at any map, they're all flat. Also, Sea Dragons, they existed, I've seen them on lots of very old maps. Though, I may be convinced that the Earth is actually one large Turtle floating through the cosmos. Got to read a few more documentaries on that one, though. Only read the first book in the series. There may be further evidence presented that actually show the Earth is at the center of a Black Hole and that's why most people are so dense.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Funny) by shrewdsheep on Friday June 16, @02:35PM
The video proves that aussies really live upside-down. When night sets in, the world turns upside-down and when I am in a pondering state, that is what happens to the Aussies. BTW the day in the video is a bit weird as it contains two nights, but is was probably taken on a Feb 28th in a leap year, for everyone knows that that day contains two nights.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18, @07:06PM (1 child)
you only read the first book?
he's the most shoplifted author in all of the UK, it's not like you can blame money problems for lack of access to the text...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 20, @02:11PM
It just wasn't compelling enough for me to buy / rent / borrow the rest of the series after a friend lent me the first book.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Friday June 16, @06:31PM
I think the video linked to by this blog entry is spectacular.
Astrophotography Blog, the Curdridge Observatory: Very Large Telescope (VLT) HD Timelapse video [neutral.org]
I link to the blog itself, rather than direct to the video, as the blog explains a couple of the things you see.
Someone reprocessed that video to make the stars stationary and show the earth moving instead, which gave a very good feel for the earth's rotation, but I can't find a link for that version*.
You could do teh same (reprocessing) for bits of the 'The Mountain [vimeo.com]' video filmed on Mount Teide on Tenerife.
This is another timelapse of the Chilean telescopes with the camera pointing down the axis of rotation: ESO: VLT time-lapse [eso.org]
There's also this: ORBEM TERRÆ - Earth rotation time-lapse compilation 4K [youtube.com]
*Not true - it is probably this. I can't tell due to computer and/or connectivity problems which means I can't play streamed videos right now.
Time Lapse Sky Shows Earth Rotating Instead of Stars (fixed audio) [youtube.com] I would prefer to link to the original, but it might have succumbed to copyright/bit-rot.