[HN Gopher] Lahaina Noon
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Lahaina Noon
Author : thunderbong
Score : 53 points
Date : 2023-11-02 15:27 UTC (2 days ago)
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| Simon_ORourke wrote:
| I was there in Lahaina a few years ago and I'm only finding out
| about this now!?!
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| What a fantastic community to have suffered such a disaster
| recently, really hope everyone there can mourn and get back on
| their feet again soon.
| itronitron wrote:
| Interesting, the photographs look like slightly dated computer
| graphics renders.
| chunkymilk wrote:
| I had the same thought looking at the photo of the level
| standing upright. Looks like the OpenGL programs I wrote in
| college.
| thriftwy wrote:
| Greeks knew, and made scientific use, of this two millenia ago,
| but here we have USA putting their own tags over this phenomenon
| and get it copy-pasted over and over
| HankB99 wrote:
| Eratosthenes used this phenomena to measure the diameter of the
| earth long ago (according to Carl Sagan: Cosmos.) One of the
| best examples I know of using what you have to do something
| really interesting.
| flykespice wrote:
| When you forget to write shaders for your opengl renderer
| dylan604 wrote:
| Sounds useful for shooting day-for-night photography. Although,
| it might not be very convenient for production scheduling though.
| layer8 wrote:
| For a few moments I was confused that Honolulu is in the
| Atlantic:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon#Subsolar_dates
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