Random PICTURE of the day thread *KEEP IT WORK SAFE*

[petyweestraw]

[Strychnine]

[naynay]

cool!

[Buckner and Elam]

[Strychnine]

This is what our solar system looks like from a non-fixed perspective. In other words, as we hurtle through space!

I suspect you're talking about the slower projectiles. Those would be Pluto and Neptune.


They are from the prospective of the Sun. Well, except for Pluto, which is way outside of the plane.

A neat little gif. Obviously not to scale on size or time but still pretty cool. All that corkscrewing would get even weirder if they threw the moons of those planets into it..

FYI, that animation is very false.

I won't copy/paste it here since this is a pic thread, but here's a detailed writeup (by Phil Plait) that explains why it's so incredibly wrong.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_motion_viral_video_showing_sun_s_motion_through_galaxy_is_wrong.html

The maker of the video, DJ Sadhu, is clearly talented at computer graphics. But his science…well. Right off the bat, I could see where this video was headed. He says straight-out that the heliocentric model of the solar system is wrong. It's Sadhu's claim, though, that's grossly wrong, on par with saying gravity doesn't exist

[Jester]

yeah but it looks cool! lol

[Strychnine]

Almost had to burn down my truck

[Jester]

lmfao!!!!!!!11

[Sean88gt]

"Sir, why did you shoot the HVAC control?"

[The Sarge]

"Sir, why did you shoot the HVAC control?"

lol, exactly what would have happened in my truck

[UserX]

yeah but it looks cool! lol

I thought everything on the internet was true!

[UserX]

[Binky]

[white88]

Lmao

[naynay]

lmao

pic unrelated