Guess the Episode
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1 point for the episode/main plot.
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1 point for the joke/scene.
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They’ll never know the simple joys of a monkey knife fight.
Look at those poor saps back on land with their “Laws and ethics.”
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All I remember is that Moe isn’t allowed to serve alcohol before a certain time, so Lenny is waiting for that time, which will apparently be when the sun has moved in such a way that the drinking time line is illuminated.
Luckily they get rubbing alcohol for their wounds.
My brain read rubbing alcohol as drinking alcohol and I think that means I should be worried
This is the episode where they end up taking Mr Burns’ yacht out to international waters right? (Their solution to not being able to drink before 11 at Moe’s)
Actually it was for the marriage between man and cow.
Furious George! What have they done to your pretty face?!
Smithers, this monkey will need a lot of your blood.
Correct me if I’m wrong but… wouldn’t the spot always be moving away from the line on the northern hemisphere?
As long as there are no mirrors involved I guess
Its not a sundial (which measure earth’s rotation), it’s a meridian line. I think they can be set up anywhere, but they’re measuring exact noon, and the
light would “travel” north to south.It travels west to east, the line on the ground is oriented north/south. Lenny is facing north.pauls-bologna.blog/2017/11/02/the-meridian-line-of-san-petronio/
It will travel north to south (and vice versa) throughout the year, but during the day
east to westwest to east surely.Shadow would move east to west, beam of light moves west to east.
Yeah the line on the floor is what’s North/South. The beam of light is moving west to east.
The beam of light moves the same way as a shadow would. Think of it as a “gap” in a shadow.
No it reverses it, the hole in the ceiling is creating a pinhole camera effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera#/media/File:Pinhole-camera.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Cathedral “The device itself is quite simple: a tiny hole in one of the minor domes acts as pinhole camera, projecting an image of the sun onto the floor )” - It never specifically says west to east but that’s what’s it’s saying.
The pinhole effect reverses the image itself, but that is irrelevant. The beam of light will always travel west to east on the northern hemisphere.
The ‘image itself’ is the entire sky, which is being flipped.
Depends on how things are oriented. If we’re looking south here then the sun would be to the west and the spot would travel toward the line as the sun got lower in the sky.
The angle seems very steep for the sun to be in the west
The sun seems to be coming from the right. In the northern hemisphere, the sun moves to the right from morning to evening, so the spot should mostly be moving towards the wall in the background, but as the sun also gets lower in the afternoon and evening, it should also be moving somewhat in the direction of the line.
I saw the sun more coming from the camera direction but I can see it coming from the right. Still it seems like it would miss the line, unless close to the equator
Set corse to pirate island. AKA Hong Kong
Literally doing that now. Meeting up with friends, waiting for the line to hit the right spot for drinking
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