*giggles*

Jun. 28th, 2005 03:31 am
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I love Calvin and Hobbes. This was almost my exact reaction after finding that out. I'm still not sure if I like knowing that little bit of information.

Date: 2005-06-28 12:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moggymania.livejournal.com
I figured it out through physically acting it out in a rehearsal for my ballet studio's Nutcracker production... All of the dancers playing "soldiers" were told to form a size-sorted column with tallest in the center, then march in sync counter-clockwise to rotate it a quarter-turn. So the kids nearer the middle almost were marching in place, while way the eff out at the column's edge, I was taking the biggest "march" steps I could manage just to keep up!

Date: 2005-06-28 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] rho
And the earth rotates at a rate of one revolution per day. One revolution per day at the outside of a 12" record is less than 1/2000 of an inch per second . On the other hand one revolution per day for someone in New York spinning around with the earth is about 300 metres per second...

Date: 2005-06-28 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dkmnow.livejournal.com
Heh.

My eyes zeroed in on the last frame first. When I started from the beginning, I was expecting Dad to show him what happens when you play some records backwards.

"Number nine...number nine...number nine..."

:-O

Date: 2005-06-28 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fjorab-teke.livejournal.com
Yeah, in one way it makes sense to me, and in another it bugs/confuses the heck out of me.

I've pondered it pointlessly many times myself. :-p

Date: 2005-06-28 12:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moggymania.livejournal.com
I figured it out through physically acting it out in a rehearsal for my ballet studio's Nutcracker production... All of the dancers playing "soldiers" were told to form a size-sorted column with tallest in the center, then march in sync counter-clockwise to rotate it a quarter-turn. So the kids nearer the middle almost were marching in place, while way the eff out at the column's edge, I was taking the biggest "march" steps I could manage just to keep up!

Date: 2005-06-28 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] rho
And the earth rotates at a rate of one revolution per day. One revolution per day at the outside of a 12" record is less than 1/2000 of an inch per second . On the other hand one revolution per day for someone in New York spinning around with the earth is about 300 metres per second...

Date: 2005-06-28 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dkmnow.livejournal.com
Heh.

My eyes zeroed in on the last frame first. When I started from the beginning, I was expecting Dad to show him what happens when you play some records backwards.

"Number nine...number nine...number nine..."

:-O

Date: 2005-06-28 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fjorab-teke.livejournal.com
Yeah, in one way it makes sense to me, and in another it bugs/confuses the heck out of me.

I've pondered it pointlessly many times myself. :-p

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