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Right about now, you're probably saying, "Troy, basically every post starts with 'Guess the Episode', is that all this community is?"
To which I say you've got some attitude, mister.
But no, any Simpsons content is allowed in this community, although we do ask that you keep the shitposting over in !simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.works.
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Guess the Episode "Rules"
- Post a screenshot from an episode of the Simpsons. Frinkiac being a popular source.
- If posting a GIF the file size should be less than 1MB, otherwise it may not be animated.
- Easy, a screenshot any who's seen the Simpsons would get.
- Medium, a screenshot that would take a moment for most people to get.
- Hard, a screenshot that someone only gets after you explain it to them.
- Genius at Work, a screenshot that makes someone go, "Yeah, that's from The Simpsons, the one where the family does the funny thing".
These "Rules" aren't real, so if you think of something clever, do that instead.
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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.