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I advocate a solution similar to proposals floated years ago on alt.pave.the.earth on UseNet. 1. Disintegrate the moon, anyone who has ever advocated for lunar calendars, and anyone who fails to convincingly support this Plan(tm), converting their mass to energy that we can use for productive purposes such as orbital adjustments. 2. Adjust the rotational period of the earth to an aesthetically pleasing multiple of th…
> ( ) planetary-scale engineering is impractical
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Disney finally gave up that fight. Barring a last minute lobbying effort, Steamboat Willie will be in the public domain on 1 January 2023. Of course the trademarks on Mickey Mouse will be valid in perpetuity.
> Barring a last minute lobbying effort, There's always a last-minute lobbying effort.
> ( ) by that logic, 2000 was the final year of the Nineties I'm annoyed by this argument, which came up again at the start of this year in dumb Twitter discussions about whether 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade. 2000 was not the final year of the Nineties. 2000 was the final year of the second millennium, and of the 20th century, and of the tenth decade of the 20th century. The Nineties were the years 1990-1…
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That would imply that not all decades are 10 years long, sice there was no year 0.
Either that or it means that the first nine years were not part of any decade.
Which explains why it is so difficult to make a reservation at Milliways.
I like the solar hijri calendar (not to be confused with the lunar hijri). Better than anno domini would be a anno mundi system, but to make a new scientific anno mundi system rather than the old way, due directly to the Earth going around the Sun, because that is how the year is considered, so to count years starting from that, too. For time keeping, use local time based on mean solar time, with no daylight saving t…
I'm a big proponent of continuous time zones, so that noon drifts ever so slightly as position changes. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
No, they don't. Proof of this is that they already aren't: there is a band no more than 15 arcseconds wide in each timezone where it is true, and everywhere outside that, civil time does not correspond to solar time.
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Either that or it means that the first nine years were not part of any decade.
A decade is any interval of ten years, so all years are the start of a decade, except for the nine years at the end of the universe. Which explains why it is so difficult to make a reservation at Milliways.
This isn't the standard technical meaning of 'decade'.
> having one or two days per year which are part of no month is stupid > having one or two days per year with no day of the week is asinine These don't sound like real reasons to me. If it costs having a 13th month with just a few days in it or a NO_DAY_OF_WEEK constant in my DAYS_OF_WEEK enum, I'd take it if it meant all of the weirdness was limited to a few days always located at the end of the year. Sounds like a…
> ( ) by that logic, 2000 was the final year of the Nineties I'm annoyed by this argument, which came up again at the start of this year in dumb Twitter discussions about whether 2020 marks the beginning of a new decade. 2000 was not the final year of the Nineties. 2000 was the final year of the second millennium, and of the 20th century, and of the tenth decade of the 20th century. The Nineties were the years 1990-1…
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A decade is any interval of ten years, so all years are the start of a decade, except for the nine years at the end of the universe. Which explains why it is so difficult to make a reservation at Milliways.
> so all years are the start of a decade This isn't the standard technical meaning of 'decade'.