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That’s pretty neat. I like it because of the way it is.
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Hmm so maybe we are spinning like a coin in space?
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Wonderful.
That’s how it works when you’re sufficiently high.
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Relative motion. Relativistic is for speeds approaching light speed.
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Careful, don’t scare the flat-earthers.
“We’re all going to slide off!”
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Things like this would not have been possible when I was a kid. I’m so glad they get to see this stuff while their synapses are still forming.
It would be possible, but it would take way more work - each frame would have to be oriented by hand.
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It’s just regular Newtonian motion. The earth, after all, really is rotating, Cory.
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That’s the whole point of the elephants ant turtle upon which our disc sits!
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Be nice. Cory isn’t a physicist, and most folk can’t tell an inertial frame from from one that isn’t.
Purely for those who give two cents worth: Even ignoring Einstein, motion in a rotating frame (e.g. the surface of the Earth) is not the same as if the frame is not accelerating. Not least, there’s centrifugal force and Coriolis effect, so the rotating frame fails even Galilean relativity.
You could rotate the camera as well. I’m not sure how well that would work, though; I’ve never looked into a camera rotator since I’m downtown and light pollution makes it kind of pointless.
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astronomical protography through an instagram filter? Yuck.
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That’s not that impressive, I get that view every time I get drunk.
There’s ants involved? I need to watch the new Cosmos.
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Interesting concept, but why not point the camera at a dark horizon instead?
If I wanted to scare them I’d point out how if the Antarctic ice melts, there is nothing stopping the oceans from draining off the edge.
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Turtle shells are rounded. This was bound to happen eventually.
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