RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 10:38 am by Anomalocaris.)
(February 25, 2015 at 8:19 am)jesus_wept Wrote: I think I'd like to start it on the year of Galileo's birth, to mark the beginning of mankind realising they.not the centre of the universe and the triumph of science, evidence and reason over superstition.
Shouldn't that be credited to Copernicus? The displacement of earth from the center is commonly called the Copernican revolution, after all.
(February 25, 2015 at 8:07 am)Brakeman Wrote: Well, One could put at the date of the trinity explosion, the entry into the atomic age.
I thought about the date of the Chicxulub Meteor strike, but the Tambora, Indonesia volcanic eruption of 1815 probably has the most geologic significance, but the geologists that know should decide that. The ash lines are crucial in determining archaeological ages so it would make scientific sense that they are year one, in my opinion.
The problem is there had been several volcanic eruptions just since the end of the ice age which equalled or surpassed tambora in violence of eruption, amount of material expelled, and the extent of identifiable ash layer. At least 2 others besides tambora happened within recorded history. So selecting tamboora seems somewhat arbitrary.
