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Interesting, on the Southern hemisphere, the sundial needs to point to the South Pole and the design needs to be altered: "in the Openscad script you can set a
by gulpahum 11y ago
Interesting, on the Southern hemisphere, the sundial needs to point to the South Pole and the design needs to be altered:
"in the Openscad script you can set a flag that will simply rotate upside-down the whole swiss cheese inside the gnomon, and build a ‘Southern-hemisphere’ version of the gnomon. This way, the ‘roo can simply use this Southern-hemisphere sundial exactly the same way a cow or a penguin would use their Northern-hermisphere version the sundial, with just one difference: the ‘roo will have to point the tip of his sundial toward the South Pole." [1]
[1] http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sundial/ http://www.mojoptix.com/2015/10/25/mojoptix-001-digital-sund...
- clouddrover 11y ago> a cow or a penguin would use their Northern-hermisphere version the sundial But penguins live in the southern hemisphere. Conspiracy?! Maybe! It must be a Galapagos penguin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_penguin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_penguin
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoA YouTube commenter offered a possibly more plausible explanation: > Angela Brett 1 month ago > +Tainer Waynes Maybe he confused the English word penguin with the French word pingouin, which means auk (a bird similar to a penguin which lives in the Northern Hemisphere.) The French word for penguin is actually manchot. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrsje5It_UU&lc=z13uhf54clysu1keb23pwrmxhryzcrqbt04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrsje5It_UU&lc=z13uhf54clysu...
- celticninja 11y agoAn auk has a black beak, the penguin in the video is of the orange beaked cartoon type of penguin.
- ArcticCelt 11y agoMaybe, but as a french speaker I can confirm that it's easy to confuse. I just learned that Pingouin and Penguin are not the same. There is even a whole section explaining more subtleties about why it's often missuses in the french language. Confusion habituelle Par abus de langage, le pingouin est souvent confondu avec les manchots, des oiseaux de la famille des sphéniscidés qui vivent dans l’hémisphère sud et ne volent pas. La principale raison de cette confusion est la ressemblance avec la plus grande des deux espèces de pingouin, le grand pingouin. Une autre source d’erreur est la parenté étymologique entre le mot français pingouin et celui désignant les manchots dans les principales langues européennes comme pinguïn en néerlandais, pingüino en espagnol, Pinguin en allemand, pinguino en italien, penguin en anglais, пингвин (pingvin) en russe, ou encore pinguim en portugais. Dans de nombreuses langues, deux termes différents sont utilisés pour désigner les deux espèces de pingouin, ce terme n’a donc pas de traduction exacte. En anglais, le terme Great Auk désigne le grand Pingouin, auk étant un terme générique désignant le plus souvent l’ensemble des alcidés. Le petit Pingouin est quant à lui appelé razorbill. En catalan ou en italien, respectivement les termes de gavot et alca sont en revanche utilisés comme en français pour désigner les deux espèces.
- clouddrover 11y agoThe Oxford dictionary has an entry on the origin of the word penguin: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-penguin http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-origin-o... And they made a short video on the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M09oIwSQ6q4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M09oIwSQ6q4
- ttctciyf 11y agoThis point is addressed by the inventor in the comments at TFA: Ernest Shackleton October 29, 2015 at 10:21 am Penguins at the North Pole?? Julldozer October 29, 2015 at 10:56 am If you were a penguin on a touristic trip, where would you go for the Xmas holidays ?
- haberman 11y agoWhat if you're on the equator?
- ploxiln 11y agouse the northern-hemisphere sundial stick, arrange it parallel to the ground and "top" pointed north (or use the southern hemisphere sundial stick and point it south. this just swaps what end the base is on.)
- bcook 11y agoWould you not align it parallel with the equator, and therefore get a more squished (horizontally compressed) time display?