BarqsHasBite to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 years 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-square47fedilinkarrow-up1155file-text
arrow-up1155message-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 to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-22 years agomessage-square47fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Lemmylaugh@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoTime is all relative anyway. Do we even know how fast the Milky Way is going and in which direction?
minus-square@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish17•2 years 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-square@AdmiralShat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoThis reeks of Douglas Adam’s humor
minus-square@bleistift2@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years 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.