Showing posts with label sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sun. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2011

End of the Earth V: There Goes the Sun

The Sun [photo courtesy of NASA]
People that know me well know that I have a lot in common with Robert Frost.  We both were born in March and we both employ rural New England settings to explore complex social and philosophical themes in our poetry.  We also like the same rap groups.

In honor of my literary doppelganger, I will now, having already had the world end in fire, try my hand at ice.

Let's try to answer the question:  "If the sun blinks out of existence this instant, what is the temperature of the Earth as a function of time?"


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Locating the Sun Photo

This photo has been making the rounds on the internet lately:
Originally from here.

Its a time lapse photo of the sun taken from a pinhole camera from June until December. The real question is: Where was this photo taken?