Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for July 18, 2016

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    Randy B Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I see that the gnomon position is the same in each case; it’s the shadow direction that’s different.

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    Farside99  over 8 years ago

    Well, it’s one way to make sure all the trains run on time.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 8 years ago

    Wish someone would shed a little light on how that works.

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    gammaguy  over 8 years ago

    What is the time of one hand clocking?

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    AtariDragon  over 8 years ago

    This is not just wrong, in the sense that sundials don’t measure the time at other places (which was the intended joke), it’s also wrong in that the positions of the shadows make no sense (which shows the cartoonist was just too lazy to read up on them). Athens and Constantinople, for example, should have almost identical shadows. Worse, Constantinople’s shadow simply could not point in the direction shown; that would require the sun to hug the northern horizon, which it does not do in the northern hemisphere.

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    Kristiaan  over 8 years ago

    Cairo? Alexandria is more likely.

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    J Short  over 8 years ago

    There’s even a 5-o’clock shadow.

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    Kilrwat Premium Member over 8 years ago

    RIP Palmyra. http://nypost.com/2016/03/28/the-heartbreaking-destruction-isis-left-behind-in-palmyra/

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    patiodragon  over 8 years ago

    “This is not just wrong, in the sense that sundials don’t measure the time at other places (which was the intended joke), it’s also wrong in that the positions of the shadows make no sense (which shows the cartoonist was just too lazy to read up on them). " No, it’s funny because it couldn’t work. You are too smart in thinking you know the “intended joke”.

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    jtviper7  over 8 years ago

    I’ve been staring at this for 5 minutes and I’m getting clocked eyed.

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    Suny  over 8 years ago

    According to my Sundial it’s Tea Time for Me….lol

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    Raider Red Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I didn’t realize that the Romans crossed the Atlantic, rounded Cape Horn to the Pacific (or crossed the South American continent), and visited the Incas.

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    neatslob Premium Member over 8 years ago

    I’m pretty sure sundials don’t work at all hanging from a wall.

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    K M  over 8 years ago

    Istanbul, not Constantinople!

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