BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoThe Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?message-squaremessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1148arrow-down1message-squareThe Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLemmylaugh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoTime is all relative anyway. Do we even know how fast the Milky Way is going and in which direction?
minus-squareCarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year ago Do we even know how fast the Milky Way is going and in which direction? Great question! Yes we do, for the last 40 years or so. “astrophysicists found that the Milky Way was moving in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus at about 600 km/s”
minus-squareDonjuanme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoWhat in insane amount of inertia that is.
minus-squarePerrin42@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoTime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
minus-squareAdmiralShat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThis reeks of Douglas Adam’s humor
minus-squareswab148@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoIt is exactly Douglas Adams’s humor.
minus-squarebleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIt feels like it’s going down to me…
Time is all relative anyway. Do we even know how fast the Milky Way is going and in which direction?
Great question! Yes we do, for the last 40 years or so.
“astrophysicists found that the Milky Way was moving in the direction of the constellation of Centaurus at about 600 km/s”
What in insane amount of inertia that is.
It is relatively large
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
This reeks of Douglas Adam’s humor
It is exactly Douglas Adams’s humor.
It’s a direct quote from him.
I feel like its going up.
It feels like it’s going down to me…
I feel it going left.