Monday 4 March 2013
13 comments:
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Not quite to scale, but beautiful nevertheless. We're all swirling around the sun whilst she plows ahead, eh? It's not like we're on a frisbee that's spinning around the galaxy?
ReplyDeleteCombining the speed of Earth's rotation, the speed at which we're orbiting the sun, and the speed at which the entire Solar System is moving, it's easy to see why a ground speed of 88 mph is sufficient for time travel (if you have a flux capacitor and a source of 1.21 gigawatts of power).
ReplyDeleteNeat! (Thanks for sharing! :-) )
ReplyDeleteI chose to follow the link; A Trans Woman Is Beaten And Nobody Hears About It... a very good read and a very common-place occurrence. Sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the picture!
@Glenn Ingersoll
ReplyDeleteThis simulation, by my count is on the order of 7 years.
Our galactic year is about 230 million years. Even if I mis-read the video, and it was 10 years of time, it should be moving through 1/23 millionth (.000000043) of a circle's perimeter.
That small of a curvature will look very much like a straight line.
just as it closed into the sun so i could identify the planets, its stopped and looped back to the far view.
ReplyDeleteit would be nice to be able to tag the planets, so we could follow them.
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Oh, awesome! Just add z!
ReplyDeleteI was made aware of this a few years ago. Pretty spiffy.
ReplyDeleteIt blew my mind and changed how I view the way things work. We are not orbiting as we have been originaly taught but rather 'falling' into the sun, sort of.
@Glenn- compare a Galactic Year to the timescale in this image. even if they accounted for galactic movement accurately, it would look like a straight line segment.
ReplyDeleteMoving in relation to what? The center of the galaxy?
ReplyDeleteVery neat graphic!
> just as it closed into the sun so i could identify the planets, its stopped and looped back to the far view.
ReplyDelete> it would be nice to be able to tag the planets, so we could follow them.
Try going to the source's website. Many more cool animations, and you'll be able to identify the planets there.
http://www.djsadhu.com/the-helical-model-vortex-solar-system-animation/
Thanks, Zoe!
Stig
What is the angle of the planet's orbital plane to the line of the sun's trajectory?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the angle of the sun's axis of rotation to it's line of trajectory?
this freakin' rocks! i love it!
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