• PersnickityPenguin
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    1 year ago

    The problem is that the earth doesn’t orbit around the sun in a whole # of days. A sidereal year is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 10 seconds, or 365.256 days.

    Likewise, the moon doesn’t orbit the earth in a perfect whole # of days either. The moon takes 27.3 days.

    Since we cannot change the orbital period or rotation of the earth, we are kind of stuck with accommodating the “arbitrary bullshit” of astrophysical bodies.

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      1 year ago

      then, as I said to the last person who pointed this out even though my math implies that I already know it, why this new bullshit instead of the bullshit we’ve already implemented?