Man, most people don't know how to use cameras.

bjordan wrote in post #8091508
Glad you could see through the crude diagram, I decided to make a much more technical and accurate version:

What about the dark side of the Sun?

That's always the side furthest away from us!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8091555
That's always the side furthest away from us!

Right you are! That's where ice weasles come from.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8089907
Did you mean 'can't'?

Yes, I did. Kinda illustrates my point, doesn't it.

bjordan wrote in post #8091508
Glad you could see through the crude diagram, I decided to make a much more technical and accurate version:

Scale! I want it to scale!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8091555
That's always the side furthest away from us!

Reminds me of the Dorkish astronauts who were taking a trip to the sun. To avoid burning up, they plan on going at night.

Native English speakers all intutively know proper grammar. Just like the East Enders, or in the U.S., the Brooklynites. (Or better yet, those good ol' boys from Georgia!)

O where's Professor Higgins when we truly need him?

20droger wrote in post #8092968
Scale! I want it to scale!

Lol! How big is your monitor? Rough approximation:

Moon diameter: 1 pixel
Earth diameter: 4 px
Sun diameter: 400 px

Distance between moon and earth: 110 px
Distance between sun and earth: 42,000 pixels.

Hmm. Time to buy that wide-screen monitor.

Lets see, my 19" 1280×1024 monitor is 14¼" wide, so I would need a monitor 4675.6" wide. That's only 39 feet. They make em' that big.

Of course, I'll have to find an old IMAX theater to convert into a computer room....

Roy Mathers wrote in post #8088985
...There are people who will always look for, and find, offence when absolutely none is meant. All i would ask skygod - respectfully, politely and innocuously - is that you lay off me.

Trust me Roy, being a fellow Brit, the last thing I want is for people to find you offensive....and I thought "lay off" meant to make someone redundant, in which case, yeah, ok...you're fired!

[It's a joke Roy....don't get your knickers in a twist!]

20droger wrote in post #8089774
Yeah, Skygod, lay off Roy! Picking on Roy is MY job!!!

[Insert image of Skygod passing the "picking on Roy because sometimes he deserves it" batton to Roger]

Good to hear Rog. Have you posted any pics recently?

Tom Reichner wrote in post #8089836
It's agreeably difficult to make sure you type everything just right...That's what proof reading is for....

Trouble is, it's nigh on impossible to perfectly proof-read what you yourself write because you/we "insert" the words we thought we typed into the written text while jumping over errors. It's all to do with perception and other dull psychological mumbo-jumbo, which is exactly why....

...All that being said, I've been guilty of it myself on occasion - things do sometimes slipp thruu

yogestee wrote in post #8090331
Funny you should say that Roy, whilst in school I was never taught grammar formally...

Me too. Maybe our schools were experimenting with telekinetic teaching methodologies that week....

tkbslc wrote in post #8090752
I meant the backside.

No no.....I promised not to pick on Roy any more!

bjordan wrote in post #8091508
Glad you could see through the crude diagram, I decided to make a much more technical and accurate version:

"Crude"? I thought your diagram was excellent and perhaps made the most sense of any post in this thread so far!

bjordan wrote in post #8093072
Lol! How big is your monitor? Rough approximation:
Moon diameter: 1 pixel
Earth diameter: 4 px
Sun diameter: 400 px
Distance between moon and earth: 110 px
Distance between sun and earth: 42,000 pixels.

Oddly enough, I was doing a similar demo to my 11 year-old a few weeks ago and she was astounded that if the sun was, from memory, something like 30cm across, Venus would be out in the street and the earth would be in Egypt! Makes us all seem so small and insignificant doesn't it? And that even includes people with names beginning with the letter "R".

skygod44 wrote in post #8093203
Oddly enough, I was doing a similar demo to my 11 year-old a few weeks ago and she was astounded that if the sun was, from memory, something like 30cm across, Venus would be out in the street and the earth would be in Egypt!

Yep unless you're in Egypt, then it's somewhere else.

Apparently people can't use their cameras... and the moon goes around the sun.

Stealthy Ninja wrote in post #8093447
Apparently people can't use their cameras... and the moon goes around the sun.

Coincidence?? I think NOT!

Stealthy Ninja wrote in post #8093447
Apparently people can't use their cameras... and the moon goes around the sun.

Mathematically, yes. The Earth-Moon complex is a double planet, since the moon's orbit is at all times concave to the Sun. It is the only "satellite" to have such an orbit.

The Earth has less gravitational effect upon the moon than the Sun does. Newton's gravitational equation proves it.

Wow, all this because someone got their knickers in a twist at people who aren't photographers wanting to take a picture. Only on POTN

Tune in next week.....