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On the Ice => Sitting on the Boards Rink Side => Topic started by: nicklaszlo on April 17, 2020, 05:28:01 AM

Title: European Southern Observatory Proposes New Compulsory Figure
Post by: nicklaszlo on April 17, 2020, 05:28:01 AM: (https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso2006a.jpg)

They named it the "Schwarzschild Precession."

You will need a really good push to skate the whole thing.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2006/ (https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2006/)
Title: Re: European Southern Observatory Proposes New Compulsory Figure
Post by: CrossStroke on April 17, 2020, 07:19:47 AM: Oh, but you've missed the trick to it - it's the power pulls!
Title: Re: European Southern Observatory Proposes New Compulsory Figure
Post by: AgnesNitt on April 17, 2020, 11:45:13 AM: Quote from: CrossStroke on April 17, 2020, 07:19:47 AM
Oh, but you've missed the trick to it - it's the power pulls!
and the special two point scribe to get the elliptical letdown for practice.
Title: Re: European Southern Observatory Proposes New Compulsory Figure
Post by: Query on April 17, 2020, 04:43:56 PM: A truly "stellar" skater is doing a carefully timed illusion to create a circularly progressing elliptical spin.

Makes a great school figure.

Anyone wanna try?
Title: Re: European Southern Observatory Proposes New Compulsory Figure
Post by: tstop4me on April 17, 2020, 10:17:05 PM: Quote from: AgnesNitt on April 17, 2020, 11:45:13 AM
and the special two point scribe to get the elliptical letdown for practice.
Just get a jumbo size spirograph.
Title: Re: European Southern Observatory Proposes New Compulsory Figure
Post by: Query on April 18, 2020, 01:13:01 PM: Quote from: tstop4me on April 17, 2020, 10:17:05 PM
Just get a jumbo size spirograph.

Spirograph=Ptolemaic cycles & epicycles!

It's so easy to fool ye mortals! We but ran a string between three celestial skaters. The skater at one end stood perfectly still. The one at the other end slowly circled the first. The third skater balanced a bright light on her head while she kept the line taut, skating round the other two.

Next shall we paint the ice sheet black and light the ice, to display the figure all at once? What fantasies willt though spin to explain the celestial pattern? 8)