"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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