sunw | 7 years ago | on: What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
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sunw | 7 years ago | on: Why We Should Listen to Flat Earth Believers (Even Though They're Totally Wrong)
Stars in general appear to move across the sky (east -> west) faster than the moon does. Does this mean the stars are actually moving faster than the moon? Of course not. The sky is just a stationary backdrop, and the moon is moving along the same direction as Earth's rotation.
sunw | 7 years ago | on: Why We Should Listen to Flat Earth Believers (Even Though They're Totally Wrong)
The moon actually moves much faster than the Earth spins -- it just seems to move westward to humans on the ground because it's so far away from Earth (takes 28 days to go around Earth). During a solar eclipse though, we see the effect of its true blisteringly fast orbital speed.
"Because the Moon moves to the east in its orbit at about 3,400 km/hour. Earth rotates to the east at 1,670 km/hr at the equator, so the lunar shadow moves to the east at 3,400 – 1,670 = 1,730 km/hr near the equator. You cannot keep up with the shadow of the eclipse unless you traveled at Mach 1.5."
sunw | 8 years ago | on: Apple open-sources FoundationDB