Comments on: Happy sad happy sad happy sad

By: icemith

icemith — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:19:01 +0000

@43 It wasn’t until I viewed the “reversed orbit” version, that I noticed that the hot molten core of the Earth, visible when the mouth is open, has slipped down to just under the continent of Antarctica.

The obvious question: Why isn’t/hasn’t the ice already melted?

And another thing: the Moon makes three orbits in five seconds, indicating that Time has accelerated considerably, or that it is a time-lapse movie. If the latter, then the direction of orbit would be the opposite of the former condition.

Discuss.

Ivan.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:41:15 +0000

Me looking at the gif:
Me reading some of the comments:
Me looking at the gif again:

@Nija: Mirroring the earth hardly makes it more accurate.

By: Arik Rice

Arik Rice — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:00:40 +0000

[UPDATE: Right after posting this I realized the Moon is orbiting in the wrong direction. But it's still awfully cute.]

Funny, that was the first thing I noticed when I saw this. Then again, maybe this is some alternate universe where the Moon orbits retrograde (and where the Earth has a face). Also, tidal effects would drag the Moon closer and closer, just like how it’s very close in the animation…I guess that means either the Moon will soon break up into a ring or just impact the poor Earth in the face.

Aw, I made myself sad.

By: Cz-David

Cz-David — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:43:51 +0000

If you focus your eyes somewhere else, so that you dont see the change in brightness when the moon is infront or behind the planet. You can make it rotate in any direction… just like the spinning dancer.

By: Minos

Minos — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:54:14 +0000

@Ion: Figures there’s a website for that. I just got done reversing it by hand.

By: Number 6

Number 6 — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:31:12 +0000

Does this animation depict the commonly-used word — EarthWatch?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:21:39 +0000

Erm, this looks like a scene from Family Guy, where Brian was demonstrating that Peter was fat. He tossed the television in orbit around Peter (he is *that* heavy) and as the television went around, he laughed as it he was watching the program, then was sad when it went behind him.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:50:34 +0000

The solution! http://reversegif.com/2422

By: Ion

Ion — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:50:13 +0000

[quote]
Right after posting this I realized the Moon is orbiting in the wrong direction.
[/quote]

Fixed that for you.

http://reversegif.com/2422

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:46:47 +0000

Earth has terrible short term memory.