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Poll: How many times does the EARTH rotate in one year?
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At least once
14.29%
6 14.29%
364 times
0%
0 0%
365 times
9.52%
4 9.52%
366 times
0%
0 0%
367 times, in a leap year
2.38%
1 2.38%
365.242... times
40.48%
17 40.48%
366.242... times
14.29%
6 14.29%
367.242... times, in a leap year
0%
0 0%
It doesn't rotate, it spirals along a cylinder
9.52%
4 9.52%
Answer depends on how you define "year"
9.52%
4 9.52%
Total 42 vote(s) 100%
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Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
(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?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year? - by Alex K - June 15, 2016 at 9:09 am

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