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Sixty Symbols - Wobbly Earth

submitted by Skeeve

1 decade 3 years 4 months 1 week ago

From YT: Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.

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Sigh, the fact that the guy sitting down has a frigging "Atlas of Creation" on his bookshelf bothers me......

Ahh, after a quick Google search:

Ok, I can excuse that then. But, I can't excuse his use of "a whole 'nother" near the end of the video

I thought that I understood precession, but I learned something here.
Thanks, Skeeve.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

I thought that I understood precession, but I learned something here.
Thanks, Skeeve.

Well I had it on mute so I didn't learn a damn thing...guess that makes me smarter than you.

Regarding the Atlas of Creation, a VideoSift search would have gotten the same result: http://videosift.com/video/Professor-Merrifield-and-the-Atlas-of-Creation

What is odd about the Wobbly Earth video, when I tried to Sift it, 50 minutes after it was already sifted, SiftBot said it wasn't sifted yet, but after submitting and getting to the final check for Dupes part, it came up... this is the second or third video I've started to submit that wasn't sifted yet but turned out to be sifted with the same embed... Siftbot missed the John Stewart/Ron Paul sift a bit ago too though both used the same embed.

ant

*spacey

The same thing has happened to me a few times in the last week or so... not sure what's happening.>> ^RFlagg:

Regarding the Atlas of Creation, a VideoSift search would have gotten the same result: http://videosift.com/video/Professor-Merrifield-and-the-Atlas-of-Crea
tion
What is odd about the Wobbly Earth video, when I tried to Sift it, 50 minutes after it was already sifted, SiftBot said it wasn't sifted yet, but after submitting and getting to the final check for Dupes part, it came up... this is the second or third video I've started to submit that wasn't sifted yet but turned out to be sifted with the same embed... Siftbot missed the John Stewart/Ron Paul sift a bit ago too though both used the same embed.

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