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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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As described in Douglas Hofstadter's book 'Godel, Escher, Bach', this is what happens when you connect your camera to your TV and point the camera at the screen. The spirals are created by tilting the camera.

Source: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Y-gqMTt3IUg

I'm currently reading this article here which links to the video. The article is about a zip file that contains itself.

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Art Bell's late night alien radio show?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah, something on WDR.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah. I forget Lemmy has a wider international range. To be fair, some American AM stations were known to bounce all over the world.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I forget Lemmy has a wider international range.

Thanks for acknowledging that. Too often I feel I have to justify myself for - well, anything that puts me apart from US Americans.

some American AM stations were known to bounce all over the world.

Are you sure you don't mean shortwave? According to this article the furthest for AM is ~1000 miles. That's 1/5th of the way to Europe.