MrSebSinM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month ago24 November 1987 (Edit: posted on 23rd by accident)imagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down11
arrow-up1165arrow-down1image24 November 1987 (Edit: posted on 23rd by accident)MrSebSinM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarethreelonmusketeerslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoThat’s not really the “wobble in Earth’s tilt”, that’s just the tilt itself. You have a much better understanding than Calvin’s dad though.
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 month agoYup you’re right, as you said, i was close but not quite right https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/seasons.en.jpg
minus-squareidegenszavaklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoAnd actually on the Northern hemisphere we are farther from the sun during summer than winter.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agowobble or not is a matter of reference frame. In an Inertial frame you are of course right, but in relation to the suns surface I’d argue the earth could be said to wobble.
That’s not really the “wobble in Earth’s tilt”, that’s just the tilt itself. You have a much better understanding than Calvin’s dad though.
Yup you’re right, as you said, i was close but not quite right
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/seasons.en.jpg
And actually on the Northern hemisphere we are farther from the sun during summer than winter.
wobble or not is a matter of reference frame. In an Inertial frame you are of course right, but in relation to the suns surface I’d argue the earth could be said to wobble.