I tried to view  solar ride  on you web page but it was only 27 kb.  Maybe it's
the sample image with the wrong extension.
Brendan Ryan

Bob Hughes wrote:

> "Andrea Ryan" <ary### [at] global2000net> wrote in message
> news:395E9544.5F806242@global2000.net...
> | It's simple to find the speed.  The animation is three seconds long  and the
> | distance between the Earth and the Sun is 93 million miles.  Divide the
> distance
> | by the time and you get 31 million miles per second.  This is greater than
> c, the
> | speed of light, which is at 186,282 miles per second.  We were going
> backwards in
> | time.
>
> Sure, but my brain is unwilling to think that out and my calculator is in the
> other room.  Seriously though, I hadn't thought what the 60 frames at 24 per
> second came out to exactly so I didn't bother.
> I've made it easy on myself now and uploaded 240 frames of this to my
> animations web page at:
> http://members.aol.com/persistenceofv/anims.htm
> so please have a look at it too, only about 50 times the speed of light now
> and you can glimpse Mercury (or Venus, haven't figured out which yet)
> streaking past at upper right at about the halfway point.
> For the record, this was all just thrown together today from scratch while
> trying a Venus and Mercury transit to check scales with reality.
>
> | As an afterthought, antimatter can be thought of as matter going backwards
> in
> | time, so did we get turned into antipeople?
>
> Another reason to never time-travel.
>
> Bob

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