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Dr. Clayton Forrester's Science Roundup

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It would be great if Earth was flat, and the center of the universe like the Church used to teach. Then we wouldn't have to worry about this crap. ;)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
It would be great if Earth was flat, and the center of the universe like the Church used to teach. Then we wouldn't have to worry about this crap. ;)
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12 months of 30 days each. Then between December 30 and January 1 we have "[Insert Name]" where we add 5 or 6 days to the calendar to make things work. It's a World Holiday for Peace (hey, I'm trying to get things passed, not because I actually believe that anyone actually believes in World Peace (except Miss World contestants)).
 
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Those floating days still end up on the calendar somewhere, and push the date from a Monday to a Tuesday, etc.
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no, that is not at all how it works. Midyear Day or whatever is not part of any month nor part of any week.

So, for example, we have June 24 - 30= Sun - Sat, then Midyear Day, then July 1 - 6 = Sun - Sat.




Hey, once in western history, every day sunrise was at 6 AM, noon was when the sun was at its zenith, and sunset was at 6 PM. In the summer, every daylight hour was 90 minutes long and in the winter every daylight hour was 45 minutes long. Then we switched chronometers, and as a result, an hour became a fixed unit at 3,600 seconds and a second became a standardized unit of time.

1882 was not that long ago that, when the sun was at its zenith, it was noon wherever you were. 240 time zones across the whole US was not feasible for nationwide commerce.
 
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Earth's rotation period is 23 hours 56 minutes, or 1436 minutes. Earth's revolutionary period is 365.25 days, or 525,960 minutes. The trick is to push the earth into a farther orbit where the revolutionary period is an integer multiple of the rotation period. The nearest would be 366 days, but that isn't an even multiple of 12, so let's push out farther to 372 days. That gives us 12 months of 31 days. 31 is not a multiple of 7 but I didn't like the idea of dates always falling on the same day anyway.

My Third Law says:

The ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun. (The Law of Harmonies)
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so

(365.25)^2/(372)^2 = (93,000,000)^3/(x^3)

where x is the new mean distance to the Sun.

x = (93,000,000)^3*(372)^2/(365.25^2) = 94,146,504 miles.

So as a bonus the amount of solar radiation hitting the earth will also decrease with the earth more than one million miles farther from the sun, and that will buy us a little more time to combat global warming.
 
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As a result of a poll, a UK research vessel is about to be named Boaty McBoatface.
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Nope. The ex-Admiral of All the Seas (or whatever) changed the rules so that a panel could reject the name. I has a sad. :-(

It's a polar cruiser. I think they should definitely accept the name for the goodwill and pub alone.
 
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Why can't they just accept the name and let that be their scarlet letter for letting the Internet decide things. I think it's great, personally.
 
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The next civilization to rise after Drumpf manages to destroy our current one will inevitably unearth this ship and translate the name. Our downfall will suddenly make a lot more sense to them. :p
 
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GrinCDXX said:
The next civilization to rise after Drumpf manages to destroy our current one will inevitably unearth this ship and translate the name. Our downfall will suddenly make a lot more sense to them. :p
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True that!!
 
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A year of sunrises. Turns out the Earth does have an axial tilt...

Fun fact courtesy of James Burke: Regensburg is where Otto von Guericke demonstrated the first vacuum pump in 1654, giving Burke an excuse to show a girl's boobies in an episode of Connections.
 
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It can be easy to forget, given 99.9% of human behavior, but at their best our monkey brains come up with some pretty freaking awesome sh-t.

In case you wondered (I did), this is Earth's equivalent. Red is strong; blue is weak.
 
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