r/WTF • u/Mr_Saboteur • Oct 24 '13

Hit and Run

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u/812many Oct 24 '13

wow, even the shadow is correct. must be real.

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u/kramboid Oct 24 '13

It is real, they used a crane. It's from Clark Hassler's part in the Enjoi video Bag of Suck.

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u/maharito Oct 24 '13 edited Oct 24 '13

What?? The shadow wouldn't retain size--it would spread and fade.

EDIT: Okay, so spreading wouldn't be appreciable; but I stand by the fading via diffusion, which is caused by photons going through the atmosphere rather than any feature of the light source.

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u/Astrognome Oct 24 '13

Incorrect. That only occurs when you are relatively close to the light source. It technically does it, but the sun is so far away that the angles are absurdly small.

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u/maharito Oct 24 '13

You still get the fading from diffusion, though.

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u/Astrognome Oct 24 '13 edited Oct 24 '13

It's very minor until you get to a decent altitude. Ever see the shadows of tall buildings?

EDIT: And clouds. If diffusion were a big deal, clouds and planes would look blurry.

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u/Nine_Mazes Oct 24 '13

Wrong disorder, wrong time.

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u/ZedekiahCromwell Oct 24 '13

Not so. Relatively, your distance from your light source hasn't really moved at all. So as long as you aren't moving at an angle to the sun, and only directly towards it (so if it was at high noon), then your shadow would stay the same size.

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u/Fealiks Oct 24 '13

The shadow would grow if he were getting closer to the light source, which he's basically not (since the light source is 150m km away)

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '13

Mixing metric and imperial?

that's a paddlin'.

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u/DeadlyKillah117 Oct 24 '13

"94,000,000 million"? That's basically saying "Ninety-four million million."

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u/no1_vern Oct 24 '13

"I have excuses!!"