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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Section69
I think your post likely disturbs me more than any other one I have read on this thread. Your observations are of such a casual and routine 'daily life' variety, it just screams accuracy. You obviously weren't looking for it...but it was impossible to miss seeing. Yeah... the validity of your post is disturbing on more than one level.
I feel this subject, if accurate and provably ongoing, pretty well seals the deal on proof in absolute terms of changes happening and those changes being entirely beyond Man's control or influence.
Originally posted by flexy123
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Section69
I think your post likely disturbs me more than any other one I have read on this thread. Your observations are of such a casual and routine 'daily life' variety, it just screams accuracy. You obviously weren't looking for it...but it was impossible to miss seeing. Yeah... the validity of your post is disturbing on more than one level.
No post in this thread has as ANY "accuracy" whatsoever, it's child's level assumptions, there are no dates given for comparison..let alone "proof". Even worse, many posts only talk about what someone "feels".
If someone makes a casual statement like "last year the sun was somewhere else etc.."...it would AT LEAST help if that person would know exactly that the sun "was not there" *at this or that exact date*...compared to *the same date* this year etc...... but seeing that the sun is indeed in different points every day throughout the year such statements are totally meaningless.
It can indeed be that the sun is shining in some places for only a day or two, but NOT the rest of the year. For example, i used to live in an apartment where ON ONE DAY OF YEAR the sun shined through the window in a really odd way, causing shadows etc.. which was not the case the rest of the year.
Effectively, this means that the casual observer will INDEED see the sun in "unusual" places at some point throughout each year...
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I want to throw out a general question to everyone on this. I feel this subject, if accurate and provably ongoing, pretty well seals the deal on proof in absolute terms of changes happening and those changes being entirely beyond Man's control or influence.
There has got to be some mathematical way to determine from position recordings anywhere back in time to present precisely where the sun should be given a viewing position? I'm no math whiz and it's never been my strong point, but it doesn't have to be for some awareness of what it ought to be able to solve?
Perhaps there are tools online that can be adapted to show the track it ought to be on vs. the track it is on as it appears from here? It just seems like too basic a problem in concept for someone out there not to have made a tool to work out the solution...even if the Sun and Earth weren't necessarily the two bodies something was designed to display?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
There has got to be some mathematical way to determine from position recordings anywhere back in time to present precisely where the sun should be given a viewing position? I'm no math whiz and it's never been my strong point, but it doesn't have to be for some awareness of what it ought to be able to solve?
Perhaps there are tools online that can be adapted to show the track it ought to be on vs. the track it is on as it appears from here? It just seems like too basic a problem in concept for someone out there not to have made a tool to work out the solution...even if the Sun and Earth weren't necessarily the two bodies something was designed to display?
Above the entrance to the passage at Newgrange there is an opening called a roof-box. Its purpose is to allow sunlight to penetrate the passage and chamber at sunrise around the Winter Solstice. At 8:58am a narrow beam of light penetrates the roof-box and reaches the floor of the chamber, gradually extending to the rear of the passage. As the sun rises higher, the beam widens within the chamber so that the whole room becomes dramatically illuminated. After 17 minutes the sunbeam leaves the chamber and retreats back down the passage.
Newgrange is the oldest megalithic monument in the world with a known astronomical function, and it predates the better-known Stonehenge in the neighbouring island of Great Britain by more than a thousand years.
A sextant (for measuring the angle of celestial objects above the horizon,) an accurate clock that can be read to hours, minutes and seconds (four seconds error can put you off a mile) and , finally, a copy of the "Nautical Almanac" for the current year. The almanac contains tables that you use to calculate the exact location of the sun, moon, planets or stars you have observed.
Originally posted by Wobbly Anomaly
Does anyone know the location of an old sundial ? Maybe check to see if it is still accurate, should answer it once and for all.