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Happy New Year to you all.

Christopher wrote:

Happy New Year to you all.

Haven't you heard? Space and time are relative.

The whole new year's thing is imaginary.

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On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:40:05 -0600, kT wrote:

Christopher wrote:

Happy New Year to you all.

Haven't you heard? Space and time are relative.

The whole new year's thing is imaginary.

Nothing imaginary about the planets orbit, or human society
celebrating the start of a new and fresh year.

Christopher wrote:

Nothing imaginary about the planets orbit, or human society
celebrating the start of a new and fresh year.



You know what is funny?
We're celebrating New Years at the wrong time every three out of four years.
Remember Leap Year.
To get it at the right time, we'd have to move the celebration forwards
from midnight by several hours to get the sun in the right place in the
heavens in three out of four years.

Pat

Christopher wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:40:05 -0600, kT wrote:

Christopher wrote:

Happy New Year to you all.

Haven't you heard? Space and time are relative.

The whole new year's thing is imaginary.

Nothing imaginary about the planets orbit, or human society
celebrating the start of a new and fresh year.

Agreed. It's simply a cycle that best matches the Earth's year using
whole numbers. Cripes, every 400 years has only 97 leap years as we
must actually remove three from the typical 1 every 4 year cycle to
make things match up.

Eric

Eric Chomko wrote:
Christopher wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:40:05 -0600, kT wrote:

Christopher wrote:

Happy New Year to you all.
Haven't you heard? Space and time are relative.

The whole new year's thing is imaginary.
Nothing imaginary about the planets orbit, or human society
celebrating the start of a new and fresh year.

Agreed. It's simply a cycle that best matches the Earth's year using
whole numbers. Cripes, every 400 years has only 97 leap years as we
must actually remove three from the typical 1 every 4 year cycle to
make things match up.

I agree, our solar system and wonderful planet is a fortuitous best of
all probable worlds, but I hardly think the ancients called it Earth.

The year isn't even calibrated on an equinox or solstice, what the hell
kind of system is that? The fact that the whole thing ended up near 360
is bizarre enough. Lunar and calendar months aren't quite matched up,
the whole thing is a cockup. God's angels just aren't doing their job.
The whole thing is just creative accounting.

Why can't everything just be perfect?

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Pat Flannery wrote:

:You know what is funny?
:We're celebrating New Years at the wrong time every three out of four years.
:Remember Leap Year.
:To get it at the right time, we'd have to move the celebration forwards
:from midnight by several hours to get the sun in the right place in the
:heavens in three out of four years.

And as soon as we take care of that, I want to talk to you about this
'Daylight Savings Time' thing. I think that extra hour of sunlight is
burning the crops...

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"Well, I met a girl in West Hollywood. I ain't naming names.
She really worked me over good. She was just like Jesse James.
She really worked me over good. She was a credit to her gender.
She put me through some changes, Lord.
Sort of like a Waring blender."
-- Warren Zevon, "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me"

kT wrote:
Eric Chomko wrote:
Christopher wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:40:05 -0600, kT wrote:

Christopher wrote:

Happy New Year to you all.
Haven't you heard? Space and time are relative.

The whole new year's thing is imaginary.
Nothing imaginary about the planets orbit, or human society
celebrating the start of a new and fresh year.

Agreed. It's simply a cycle that best matches the Earth's year using
whole numbers. Cripes, every 400 years has only 97 leap years as we
must actually remove three from the typical 1 every 4 year cycle to
make things match up.

I agree, our solar system and wonderful planet is a fortuitous best of
all probable worlds, but I hardly think the ancients called it Earth.

The year isn't even calibrated on an equinox or solstice, what the hell
kind of system is that? The fact that the whole thing ended up near 360
is bizarre enough. Lunar and calendar months aren't quite matched up,
the whole thing is a cockup. God's angels just aren't doing their job.
The whole thing is just creative accounting.

Why can't everything just be perfect?

That's what politics tries to do, make science perfect. Science knows
better, yet politics won't go away. Look how many people believe that
the Iraq war was both necessary and tied to 9/11. How many of them are
scientists?

Eric


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