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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • montechristo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lovely picture! Either I don’t get the meme part or I can’t find Saddam.

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    • Fester@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He’s there, in the jpg artifacts

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Those aren’t the sun in the sky. They’re beans.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The meme is that there is no meme, and the picture is just doctored - the sun doesn’t follow that pattern at all…

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      • crapwittyname@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It absolutely does, my friend. It’s called the analemma.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      All my Lemmings love analemmas

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      • joelfromaus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s how new Lemmings are born.

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      • IDew@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        💀💀

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      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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*

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      hey that’s what we call my friend Emma

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      • jdf038@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Does she want more friends?

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Watson or Stone?

      (A Lemming’s reply when I made the same juvenile joke last time was: ‘Thompson, actually’)

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • BennyInc@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And there’s still people out there, believing that.

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      • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ridiculous. Clearly it’s turtles all the way down.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    incorporating that in sundial design

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  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Go home, sun. You’re drunk.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think I count 46 shots. Missed a few weeks.

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or it was overcast on those days. 46/52 is far better than you’d be able to manage in my area.

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  • HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • friendly_ghost@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Every week” but there are only 46 suns in the image. I will never trust strangers on the internet again

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Where is Saddam?

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    • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i think the clouds?

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • altasshet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Makes me think of Anathem

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    • nik9000@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My analemma.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    so clearly sun rotates around earth, in your face Galileo - Church probably

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Neat. I naturally assume the very few apparent gaps are due to bad/cloudy weather on those particular days…

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    • d00ery@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There should be 52 suns in the picture

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, that’s exactly my point. I counted 46.

        You can’t expect clear skies every day/week of the year can you?

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  • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nnnnnnggggg!!

    This is highly infuriating! The sun keeps narrowly missing taking out the church spire.

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  • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Which planet were these pictures taken on? On my planet the sun looks much bigger.

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you can change the relative size of things with zoom

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  • sudo42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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    • Balinares@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • sudo42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looks like the diagram for an sp3 hybridized electron orbital

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We wobble but we dont fall down

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    • DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff

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