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I don't know why, but it took me a full minute to realize that graphic was spinning in a counter-clockwise fashion.
by itronitron 4y ago
I don't know why, but it took me a full minute to realize that graphic was spinning in a counter-clockwise fashion.
- dylan604 4y agoWhat would you expect for a planet where the sun rises in the east and sets in the west?
- bregma 4y agoA plane, like the Earth, with the sun appearing and disappearing over the edge.
- dylan604 4y agosee, the flat earthers have it all wrong, which is evident by this comment. clearly, it is the sun that is traveling around the earth. i mean, if it disappeared, it wouldn't be coming back. so at least my theory is much more logical. and mars just likes to screw with us by reversing course a couple of times just to see if we're paying attention
- int_19h 4y agoIt's a different sun every day, duh.
- itronitron 4y agoI think because the continents fade out as they approach the point closest to the viewer it makes it look like they are actually fading into the background and behind the red blobby thingies.
- jobigoud 4y agoI wonder if people in the southern hemisphere think of it as rotating clockwise?
- dylan604 4y agoeast is east and west is west, even if you're standing on your head
- jobigoud 4y agoIf you are in space and you look at the Earth from below it's rotating clockwise in space. It's only counter-clockwise when you look from above.
- seanhunter 4y agoTldr: No they don't. (Speaking as someone who grew up in the Southern hemisphere and now lives in the Northern). Long version: I mean, there might be some who do but that's true of any deliberately perverse opinion[1]. I expect that generally people think of the Earth's direction of rotation as being from East to West and if they were trying to get to clockwise/anticlockwise they would specify which pole they were standing at. [1] You can make a clock that rotates counterclockwise[2] but that doesn't prove that words have no meaning, just that you're a curmudgeon. Most people would concede they know what you mean when you ask whether the earth rotates clockwise or anticlockwise and that wouldn't vary between Southern and Northern hemisphere dwellers I think. [2] which is an interesting philosophical/linguistic conundrum because isn't the direction of rotation of a clock by definition "clockwise" whichever direction it rotates? It is a clock after all.
- alecbz 4y agoSame -- I think something about the graphic (maybe how it blends in with the background in place?) creates that kind of "spinning balerina" illusion.
- powersnail 4y agoI would guess it's the fact that the farther side looks brighter than the nearer side. Animated 3D rotation without any shading or shadow always throws me off for a second. If the inside of the globe is slightly opaque, dimming the farther side proportionally, it might make it easier.