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Comment by neom | Hacker News Reader

heh, if you send Double Asteroid Redirection Test into google it gives an easter egg unlike any I've seen before... it's cool, but weird.

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Haven't seen rotation applied to the whole page in a long time.

We once had an awesome IE bug where a style applied to a spinner made the whole page rotate. QA thought it was a prank.

Even better, if you scroll down far enough that results would scroll off the left side of the page it straightens again. Someone considered the edgecases.

Searching 'dutch angle' also rotates the page

For other people who want to see

https://www.google.com/search?q=Double+Asteroid+Redirection+...

I was going to see if they imparted any meaning into the angle they chose to CSS transform, knowing Google and all, but alas, they just did 1 degree.

First off, I thought that it would be cool if they rotated a proportion of 360 degrees equal to the proportion of the change in orbital time period to the previous orbital time period of the asteroid. Then I realized that it changed by around 5%, so that would be 360 * 0.05 = 18 degrees. Not really readable.

That's 2 minutes that I'll never get back, but it's left me amused for some reason. Heh.

That’s so cool, reminds me of the old, more fun, Google

Gives me hard nostalgia for the old, more fun, internet

Ah, I have waited a long and strenuous time for the inevitable day in which this thread becomes relevant once more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19038327

Wow, that's a neat little Easter egg! It's always fun to stumble upon unexpected surprises like this. I wonder if Google has any other hidden gems like this one. As for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test itself, it's fascinating to see how scientists and engineers are working to develop technology to deflect asteroids that could potentially collide with Earth. The potential consequences of such an impact are staggering, so it's reassuring to know that steps are being taken to mitigate this risk.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Google+in+1998

Not working for me on an iPad sadly.

I thought, well, there must be many more, perhaps the network log tab brings something up to investigate. I was curious on how they did this, so I tried to trace the request and immediately realized that the seemingly tiny and spotless Google home page is in fact one giant nightmare of obfuscated code. I bet one could write an entire programming book just about that one page transition.