The leap day

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 9:26:41 PM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
On Oct 5, 11:43*am, oriel36 wrote:
It is hard to imagine why people in this era of great technological
advancement would choose to betray the intricate structure we inherit
from the great astronomers in antiquity who fixed the 24 hour day and
later that value to *daily rotation through 360 degrees,who took these
daily cycles and rotations and determined 365 1/4 rotations for an
annual/orbital circuit and then to craft the structure of a leap day
in order to maintain a steady progression of 24 hour days into a
steady progression of years using these days.Who would marvel at the
6 hour orbital drift through Mar 1st from year to year with the 1461
st rotation of Feb 29th that brings the rotations back in sync
corresponding to 4 cycles of 365 1/4 rotations.

That's fine, but only WITH RESPECT TO THE SUN, no problem.

You literally have to be a monster to reject this system...

And, you would have to be a complete Idiot to reject the easily
measureable sidereal day.


The worst part of not finding a suitable audience , at least one capable of initiating a proper inquiry, is that it robs the spirit of discovery which proposed the orbital drift using full rotations of equable 24 hour days and full rotations and then adding the extra rotation of February 29th to make up the 6 hours of orbital distance omitted the previous 3 cycles.

I get to see that work I know as coming from a love of God defaced as the first time it has made it into wider circulation from people who insist that there are 366 1/4 rotations per orbital circuit or 1465 rotations in 1461 days via the 'solar vs sidereal' fiction.

The life of a Christian is making a connection to the greater encompassing Life hence death and what comes after loses its 'sting' and this is why naturally joyous people would not attribute to themselves what I wouldn't even though I may have been the first to show how timekeeping meshes closely to the great cycles of the Earth. In all human endeavor of a creative nature, whether art,music or whatever there is nothing comparable to what happens with astronomy and terrestrial sciences in diminishing human achievement as opposed to celebrating it.

Nothing stings worse than the destruction of innocence.