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- yogurtslinger, on 12/24/2007, -13/+114Outside. The place you haven't been in years.
- MrSprout, on 12/24/2007, -3/+60Pretty. I wonder if there's a high-res version somewhere I can use as desktop wallpaper.
- kazamx, on 12/24/2007, -3/+52me
- Clarity01, on 12/24/2007, -0/+44Axial Tilt - The reason for the season! :)
- johnny222, on 12/24/2007, -3/+37Why?
- brianbb98, on 12/24/2007, -2/+34thats what she said
- MrWally, on 12/24/2007, -0/+28What, you don't see 40 suns in the sky at once on a regular basis every day?
- teesix, on 12/24/2007, -0/+27This link gives an explanation on the picture:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html - Iggins, on 12/24/2007, -2/+25Ah, so that is the "Sun" everyone refers to...
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -3/+25That's what she said.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+21I'd have it as a wallpaper, if it was big enough.
- volacide, on 12/24/2007, -0/+18Don't be that envious. No one else could see anything like this in "real life" without the help of photoshop either.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+15Yule was celebrated at the winter solstice for thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Yule just got hi-jacked by the church and turned into Christmas.
- donmanguno, on 12/24/2007, -1/+15yeah, except that jesus was probably not born on dec. 25, or in the winter at all for that matter. the date was probably chosen, as many christian traditions were, in order to make the pagans that the church was trying to convert more comfortable with christianity. dec. 25 was a big deal to most pagan belief systems because it is the day that the sun(son) is "reborn" (begins its ascent) after being dead (at its nadir) for three days.
- NathanielJ, on 12/24/2007, -3/+16The award for unnecessary reply of the day goes to...
- stonebear, on 12/24/2007, -3/+16It remains at this angle for three days; the ancients believed this meant the sun had died. It was time of great concern, and then rejoicing as the newborn sun began its climb through the sky on the 25th. This new year celebration is the origin of what we now call Christmas.
- kbro, on 12/24/2007, -0/+13No, it is in the middle northern hemisphere looking due south.
If this were in the southern hemisphere, the Sun would reach a much higher inclination since its directly overhead about 22 degrees south latitude of the Earth. - nthitz, on 12/24/2007, -4/+15This doesn't seem to show a 24 hour period, there's no night.
- georgemason01, on 12/24/2007, -0/+9Not without my LSD.
- atrain15, on 12/24/2007, -0/+8Christmas being on the 25th of December has to do with the Christians trying to upstage the Mithraists celebration of the Sun God on that date which was growing in popularity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism#Iconographi ...
http://hinduworld.tripod.com/history/mithra.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/holidaysfestiva ...
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/sina21224.htm - coasterswim, on 12/24/2007, -0/+8If you're outside of the tropics, the sun never goes over your head on any day of the year.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+7Yeah, funny how it started out having nothing to do with Jesus and today .. pretty much the same.
- a1532b, on 12/24/2007, -1/+8I guess because he's in desperate need of halo rehab.
- tylerjames, on 12/24/2007, -3/+10Happy Yule everyone!
- Nar1117, on 12/24/2007, -0/+7Ah. I am reminiscing of the time in Digg's history when HDR was the Ron Paul of the front page.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+7There's a Grand Conjunction happening right now that coincides with this. http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/12/behold-the-g ...
- thesonofdarwin, on 12/24/2007, -3/+10You must be a virtual mage. I felt the heat from that burn across the net.
- georgemason01, on 12/24/2007, -6/+13Photoshopped.
No, actually I'm just envious of the fact I never see anything this cool in real life. - umber2007, on 12/24/2007, -1/+7Tape and scissors.
- ub3rgeek, on 12/24/2007, -1/+7You cant just stretch out the image and call it a wallpaper...
- chrisbarr, on 12/24/2007, -3/+8Usually the sun goes over your head at some point during the day. Notice how here it does not.
- Rocketbird, on 12/24/2007, -0/+5Is it...a conjunction junction?
- eeevildictator, on 12/24/2007, -0/+5someone's got christmas cheer
:):):):):):):) - gllopc, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5WTF, dude?
- sandman979, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4You got to leave the camera very secured to a surface and then take a picture every hour (or whatever you may see fit) in a day without moving the camera. Then with photoshop (old school multiple exposition techniques can be used too, but for this let's stick with photoshop) put all the pictures in different layers and start erasing and editing.... kind of complicated is you have no idea how PS works anyway. However this is VERY basic stuff once you know how to use PS so grab the books!
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Some spammer, digg has been overrun with them ever sense winter break started in the US. (Kids get 2 weeks time off from school)
YouTube commenters have found us. - goldfishey, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4well, more along the lines of IT had nothing do with him. Scholars have tried to figure out the birth of christ using the biblical documents references to the jewish and roman calanders and references to stars. Im not 100 percent certain, but I believe they approximated it to some time in November. Christmas was created to bring people away from the solstice new year party to a christian based party. People liked their holidays and celebrations and wern't as likely to convert if they had to give them up.
- yagoogaly, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Tom Dickson did not become famous for saying ***** like "does it blend?"
- Klarth, on 12/24/2007, -3/+7That must have been a pretty cool way to spend the day. No sarcasm - Bringing a picnic and a few friends would be awesome.
- pixel, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4APOD rocks
- Ghoztt, on 12/24/2007, -1/+5Then subsequently hi-jacked by hyper consumerism and turned into SPEND MONEY DAY!
Yeah, Jesus would really want you to buy him an iPhone. Yay for materialism. -_- - 0ceanic, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4the dig explanation is wrong. the site says sunrise to sunset.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+4Winter solstice is when the solstice sun casts a shadow of the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl descending the steps of the pyramid at Chichen Itza - see you there dec. 21 2012!
- Twee, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3I'm an atheist, and I think Zeitgeist is given far more credit than it deserves. It's not that great.
- inactive, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3I think the point is not to accept it all on face value but to question what you might have learned in school or church or on TV. All is not what it might seem. There are some things is in it that are more conspiracy theory than anything else, like 9/11 and the NAU, but there are some pretty undeniable truths in there too. The message is to question, think for yourself, and find your own truth.
- Klarth, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3I'd be pretty insecure about leaving a camera unattended.
- mirzmaster, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Thanks for sharing, but unfortunately it looks like you just scaled the image, which makes it look more blurry. Do share if you find the original hi-res image though. :)
- appleswitch, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3"the Sun will make its lowest arc through the sky along the southern horizon"
I got in an accident at a stop light today because of the killer low sun out, I'm totally blaming it on the Winter Solstice. - sqeakingkev, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Let's also appreciate how expertly this was taken. In the hands of a less-experienced photographer, this shot(s) would be horrendously over or under-exposed.
- dizam, on 12/24/2007, -0/+3Don''t worry, the world ended in 2000. Nobody told you?
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