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Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:11:48 2012 No.5016995 [Reply] [Original]

Does the Earth go around the Sun or does the Sun go around the Earth? The answer is both are correct.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:14:33 2012 No.5017000 File: 49 KB, 100x100, f1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Depends on the reference frame.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:16:02 2012 No.5017005 What's going on in this th... Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me. (Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo figaro Magnificooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:18:17 2012 No.5017008 >>5017005 i'm just a poor boy nobody loves me

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:20:33 2012 No.5017014 >>5016995 Do I do a barrel roll on the ground or does the ground do a barrel roll around me?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:25:32 2012 No.5017035 File: 27 KB, 200x200, File:Orbit2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I knew I could use this gif some time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:56:48 2012 No.5017118 >>5017035 What's the +? I'm a Psychology major, I wouldn't know.

>>	Carl Fri Aug 31 18:57:17 2012 No.5017122 >>5017118 a positive charge

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:58:48 2012 No.5017128 >>5017122 Kill yourself. >>5017118 It denotes the barycenter, the cross is arbitrary. You can use a point or a smiley face if you want.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 18:59:17 2012 No.5017130 >>5017118 The center of mass of the system.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 19:05:03 2012 No.5017146 File: 28 KB, 200x200, Orbit4.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5017035 Misleading gif. The barycenter of the Earth-Sun system is within the sun itself. Earth causes the sun to almost undetectable wobble in orbit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 19:08:47 2012 No.5017156 >>5017146 How 'bout the lighting god Jupiter?

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 31 19:23:17 2012 No.5017199 >>5017156 Still within the sun, but not by as much. Jupiter creates a rather more notable wobble in Sol's orbit.