Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

sorry to be so un-meme like but couldn't it just have been very high up so cast a larger shadow?

Based on a rough calculation a 2 metre wingspan eagle would need to be somewhere around the orbit of mercury to cast a 4 metre shadow on Earth.

Please show your working

Are you trying to tell me space eagles do not exist? What next, the earth is round?

Look at this loser over here guys! Ha!

flat earthers thread

A-10?

A biplane like this Pitts Special, whose nose is obscured at oblique angles?

Subtle demo for the next generation of virtual advertising, already commonly used to insert ads beside the track, and occasionally on the track?

The big banner overlayed on the track?

They've been doing that in football and rugby for years

Yes. But do they use it to create animated eagle shadows?

Wouldn’t an animated virtual ad put the players off?

Oh I get ya

"Virtual" i.e. it's not physically there on the pitch. (unless sarcasm detector failure)

What, the players aren’t real?

What about the spectators? Photoshop?

Possible repost, mesmerising: https://twitter.com/FelicityMorse/status/922223815790342145

Reminds me of this sequence from "The Orchestra" by Zbigniew Rybczyński
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=42m41s&v=t7J7SuoqZNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Vc2ZfVhf0

Wow, MC Escher meets Daft Punk

Doesn't have a wingspan that big but one of these?
https://www.wired.com/2011/08/weird-birdlike-mystery-drone-crashes-in-pakistan/

It seems the U.S. do have bird-like UAVs...

The Orchestra" by Zbigniew Rybczyński

Thanks

one of these?

I can see the utility of a drone which looks like a bird to a ground observer, and (pace father Ted) you could make it of arbitrary size as long as you maintain sufficient altitude to prevent an unaided visual observer from distinguishing between scale and distance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXypyrutq_M

I'm pretty sure that's the shadow of a cable cam...you can see the shadow from ground level in the same place at a different time of the race at 59 seconds in this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aljfbhxtdyc

cable cam

So somebody with an eagle logo has borrowed an advertising idea from Emirates?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDAwBjyxXk

U srs? Everything is real, except the animation that is ‘cgi’d onto the floor. Used all the time in american sports to show the current score etc. I’m pretty sure they don’t have a dude running onto the field with a paint brush between each goal.