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This thread is like a broken pencil: pointless.
Cornelius:
--- Quote from: LeeC on 19 Nov 2018, 11:43 ---The translation is about sweet jams? :psyduck:
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Yep. In his own time, the man was famous for his jams.
Morituri:
Most cats are descended from a long line of bachelors.
And, come to think of it, a long line of bastards as well.
LeeC:
Adorable and wholesome 8 panel comic
Fairy First Aid
https://imgur.com/gallery/Vwp5GSs
Morituri:
A random math problem has been distracting me occasionally for a week or so. This morning I woke up knowing the answer.
One lunar month is equal to exactly 167/10 + 349/29 days.
Accurate to within a minute or so in a thousand years. Of course this assumes that the ratio of lunar months to days remains constant. In the long-ish run (thousands of years) it does, but in the very short run (within a single year) it fluctuates with the time of year and precession of the apsides, and in the very long run (tens of millions of years) it lengthens as Earth's tides gradually subtract rotational inertia from the planet's spin and add it to the moon's orbit.
So, as with everything, this is an approximation. But it's a pretty good approximation for the next several thousand years.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Nov 2018, 12:26 ---A random math problem has been distracting me occasionally for a week or so. This morning I woke up knowing the answer.
One day is equal to exactly 167/10 + 349/29 lunar months.
Accurate to within a minute or so in a thousand years. Of course this assumes that the ratio of lunar months to days remains constant. In the long-ish run (thousands of years) it does, but in the very short run (within a single year) it fluctuates with the time of year and precession of the apsides, and in the very long run (tens of millions of years) it lengthens as Earth's tides gradually subtract rotational inertia from the planet's spin and add it to the moon's orbit.
So, as with everything, this is an approximation. But it's a pretty good approximation for the next several thousand years.
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Now that's pretty damn freaky...
This EXACT subject was raised on a radio talk show just yesterday!!!
(I mean... whataretheodds!?)
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