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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 12:42 am
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I think either 240BC or 1522AD deserve consideration as origin points of a calendar system.
240 BC is year of the first accurate measurement of earth's circumference. 1522 AD is the year of the first circumnavigation of the earth.
I also think 1492 AD is much more significant to human history than merely marking the vastly important discovery and colonization of America. It mark something even more portentous - the beginning of globalization of human civilization and that makes it for me the true beginning of the modern era.
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Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 12:44 am
I would start it on the day I was born. Why? Because I am the most important person in the universe.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 3:37 am
"Yes! Yes, I've restarted my calendar like 5 times now, and it's still showing Jesus time. Yes! Look, can you just send someone out to look at it? What? Argh..."
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 3:54 am
I said it before I this forum...
I'd put year 1 at the invention of the transistor.
Either that, or the date of publication of Maxwell's equations.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 8:07 am
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.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 8:19 am
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.
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 10:24 am
I'd start with Nicolas Cage's birth. We'd have Before Nicolas Cage and After Nicolas Cage.
But that's just like, my opinion and stuff...
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RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 10:32 am
RationalPoet.......I really would only change the BC/AD crap considering that the Christian calender has pagan roots. BCE and CE are fine with me. Even if we could not the exact day the planet became a planet it would be a bitch to not that on a check in terms of billions of years.
4,000,002,015 would look stupid on a check.
