Archive for July 23rd, 2010
xkcd’s poetry and planetary physics
By Johnny Rollerfeet's Echo Chamber - Last updated: Friday, July 23, 2010
I dislike most poetry, but this is simultaneously beautiful/nerdy.
Spinning counterclockwise
Each turn robs the planet of angular momentum
Slowing its spin the tiniest bit
Lengthening the night, pushing back the dawn
Giving me a little more time here
With you
A friend recently tweeted his own beautiful annotation.
[My daughter] loves to spin & I think of this. Someday when she understands the physics in the comic, I’ll tell her. sniff
