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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 8:59 am
(June 15, 2016 at 1:36 am)Aractus Wrote: (June 15, 2016 at 1:04 am)IATIA Wrote: (i voted "at least once" so i could peek)
I posted that option as an answer purely for people interpreting the question as "how many times does the earth rotate around the sun in a year?" It is of course, not correct. It would be, almost correct for strictest definition of year which is 1 exactly. But for calendar years it is either slightly greater or slightly less than 1. Note of course there's no point in saying "at least once" if once is an incorrect answer, that is to say the number of rotations on the earth's obit per calendar or orbital year is far greater than, and can never equal one.
It would have been correct if I had worded it as "about once".
I did not want to select the right answer as, previous to the poll being presented, I had already stated that I know the answer.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 9:09 am
(June 15, 2016 at 8:59 am)IATIA Wrote: (June 15, 2016 at 1:36 am)Aractus Wrote: I posted that option as an answer purely for people interpreting the question as "how many times does the earth rotate around the sun in a year?" It is of course, not correct. It would be, almost correct for strictest definition of year which is 1 exactly. But for calendar years it is either slightly greater or slightly less than 1. Note of course there's no point in saying "at least once" if once is an incorrect answer, that is to say the number of rotations on the earth's obit per calendar or orbital year is far greater than, and can never equal one.
It would have been correct if I had worded it as "about once".
I did not want to select the right answer as, previous to the poll being presented, I had already stated that I know the answer.
People can't really see what you vote before they themselves voted, so what's the holdup?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 9:24 am
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Because I did not really pay attention to that fact before I voted and now I cannot unvote.
Our standard earth day (noon to noon) is longer than one rotation.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 9:33 am
Silly poll. Why you no allow me to pick multiple answers. I wanted 1,3,6 and 9 but had to settle for 1. I would probably have included 10 just because .. you know .. the more answers you pick the smarter you appear but you actually did define it (bastard).
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 5:36 pm
(June 15, 2016 at 9:24 am)IATIA Wrote: Because I did not really pay attention to that fact before I voted and now I cannot unvote.
Our standard earth day (noon to noon) is longer than one rotation.
OK, we give up.
Explain.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 5:45 pm
How many times during a lunar year does the Moon rotate?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 5:46 pm
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(June 15, 2016 at 7:15 am)ignoramus Wrote: In which case it would just be a silly question unless specified otherwise.
Exactly and this is AF, silly questions is not allowed.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 11:24 pm
(June 15, 2016 at 9:33 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Silly poll. Why you no allow me to pick multiple answers. I wanted 1,3,6 and 9 but had to settle for 1. I would probably have included 10 just because .. you know .. the more answers you pick the smarter you appear but you actually did define it (bastard).
Well, there are multiple correct answers and all of those options you listed are incorrect, so it wouldn't have helped you. An example of a correct answer is 10.
The reason you can only select one answer is because it means you must select between either a correct answer or an incorrect one. If you could give multiple answers then it would be possible to select both correct and incorrect answers at the same time.
There are two definitions of year - calendar or orbital with orbital being the more 'vanilla' definition, but calendar being equally valid because we use artificial measures of time that we have constructed (for example, noon should occur when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, but the modern definition of a day is a 24 hour period, and therefore noon happens at 12PM regardless of the position of the sun).
There is a large number of respondents who think the answer is 365.242 - it isn't. That's the number of days in a year, not the number of times the Earth rotates on its axis.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 2:12 am
You're gonna make me Google it now, aren't you?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 2:15 am
Was I the only one who got the answer right?
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