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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.
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
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.
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Shhh! Don't let Big Clock know that we are on to them.
Well that’s what happens when you leave it out in the sun
No I think it's because it's cold in space
Nuh uh
There was shrinkage!
Good to know it’s still a flat disc
Amazing how the countries side over it?
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Second picture looks smogier and more polluted
Well the second pic is also at night with a high iso and long exposure plus it's digital so there's a lot more noise going on.
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.
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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.
This truly is the worst timeline. Next, they'll tell us Uranus isn't gassy too.
Nah, it is. Just checked.
I like the pale blue representation, reminds me of blue jade or some old seaglass.
The maps were correct, New Zealand doesn’t exist.
It's getting old, I guess /s
I like how you can see the ring/sphere of atmosphere in the new image.
That’s the new smog layer.
To be fair there was a big hole in the ozone in 1970
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It's because the Sun is behind it.
The magnetic poles must be moving substantially. Africa has rotated almost 90 degrees in a few short decades!
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.
Also looks much more sickly (yes, its because they pumped up the brightness lol)
Android post processing vs Apple post processing
Went back and looked, actually laughed out loud
Aside from all else, the first image was taken on film lit by daylight, the second was shot on digital at high ISO lit by moonlight with a little sunlight at one edge
Moonlight doesn't have the same colour rendering quality as sunlight
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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)
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Where did Africa go?? 😧
A lot less green, as well.
It's cold out there in space.
Don’t they know about shrinkage?
Big if true.
It's because we're looking at a different side of the planet in the second photo.
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Plus, that 2d image makes it look flat, like a penny.
"Ha! I knew the Earth was flat!"
Knowledge is power!
Completely different landmasses as well!
Kubrick, we're onto you
That's because the internet made the world smaller.
Jerryyyy, Earth is a planet!
continents seem to have moved too.. weird.
It's because the Apollo mission photos were obviously faked. How would they have known how small Earth really is, duh!
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It‘s like that one planet in SMG.
I'll need Jerry Smith's opinion on this one
We are not a celestial dwarf. Earth is a planet.
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