[–] 14 points 1 week ago

You stand on dirt and you don't know what a planet is yet, so you call the stuff you stand on earth.

A long time later people figure out what a planet is but at that point people have been around standing on earth for ages, so you call the planet earth.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    p.s. look at the chair shadow, the light does seem to come from the left and possibly the height of those poles. It would make sense for those. (They are also brighter lit at the top, with a sharp drop of in brightness) And a guy in the military taking professional photos might not have actually been a professional photographer, depending on what the photos were for.

    p.s. Oh an also they could be close together to form one light source to create better shadows. It is a small room and if they were farther apart it might look weirdly lit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    You might be right, but I just think we can't say with any surety, since all of it might have a mundane explanation compared to six fingers or impossible shadows etc.

    I would not want to say a clipboard that long has never existed, maybe they were a thing at the time of the photo.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (6 children)

    The poles could be further apart than they seem. The poles could be for a lighting rig for professional photos?

    Her nametag might be blurred out for privacy reasons. Though it is not very blurred, might jsut be a problem with fous, after all it was purely manual back then wasn't it?

    Now I am not saying you aren't right but there could be multiple explanations.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Could be like recruitment pictures? so multiple taken with different personnel?

    Definitely seems to be slightly different perspective.

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  • A wang on Harry (lemmy.world)
     

    From QDB (from bash.org):

    Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book

    Let's see the results...

    "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.

    "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

    A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

    "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."

    "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

    Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

    "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

    The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

    He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

    He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

    Ok

    I have found, definitive proof

    that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all

    "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?

    O_______O

    Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

    Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

    'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.

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