Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
| Poll: How many times does the EARTH rotate in one year? This poll is closed. |
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| At least once | 6 | 14.29% | |
| 364 times | 0 | 0% | |
| 365 times | 4 | 9.52% | |
| 366 times | 0 | 0% | |
| 367 times, in a leap year | 1 | 2.38% | |
| 365.242... times | 17 | 40.48% | |
| 366.242... times | 6 | 14.29% | |
| 367.242... times, in a leap year | 0 | 0% | |
| It doesn't rotate, it spirals along a cylinder | 4 | 9.52% | |
| Answer depends on how you define "year" | 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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 (June 15, 2016 at 2:58 am)Aractus Wrote: Imagine the earth is revolving around the sun clockwise, which means you are looking down on it from some distance away, and the highest "continent" you can see is Antarctica. Because that's what you're looking down on. You don't move, but you watch the Earth rotate for a year, how many times does it rotate on its axis while you're observing? Do we also assume for this problem that the earth is a perfect circle/sphere? 
Well the Earth is Earth shaped, it's not a perfect sphere as you know. But that shouldn't matter, it still rotates, and if it was a flat-earth it'd still be rotating.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK "That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke (June 15, 2016 at 3:05 am)Aractus Wrote: Well the Earth is Earth shaped, it's not a perfect sphere as you know. But that shouldn't matter, it still rotates, and if it was a flat-earth it'd still be rotating. I meant the sun, sorry. After all the earth revolves around the sun, and that revolution might affect the answer, right? Or still irrelevant?  (June 14, 2016 at 10:44 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Whenever I ask this question, 9 out of 10 get it wrong. Yes. Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
(June 15, 2016 at 3:19 am)Irrational Wrote: I meant the sun, sorry. After all the earth revolves around the sun, and that revolution might affect the answer, right? Or still irrelevant? Well of course it matters, we're talking about the real Earth after all, not a theoretical body in space. But In answering that let me also give away the next incorrect answer which 3 out of 10 people so far chose: "It doesn't rotate, it spirals along a cylinder". The earth doesn't spiral at all so that should be a dead give-away that the answer was wrong, but it does travel along a cylindrical path (not a physical cylinder, of course), significant enough that over the course of a human life we travel quite a bit further in that direction compared with our orbit. But with that said, the Earth rotates, it doesn't spiral, and there's no physical cylinder so on every level that is an incorrect answer.
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK "That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke 
Ok, everyone really needs to read Around the World
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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Education: None. Skills: None. Merits: None  Religious Views: the Disc's first ligthning proof atheist (June 15, 2016 at 12:18 am)Aractus Wrote:(June 14, 2016 at 10:56 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Do we include rotating around the sun as well and also relative to the sun? According to my understanding rotation happens around a central axis within the body doing the rotating, therefore the earth's elliptical path round the sun isn't a rotation.
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As I've mentioned, the question is indeed: how many times in 1 year does the Earth rotate on its axis?
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK "That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 15, 2016 at 5:30 am
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(June 15, 2016 at 5:29 am)Aractus Wrote: As I've mentioned, the question is indeed: how many times in 1 year does the Earth rotate on its axis? In my answer, I assumed the definition of 1 year being the time the earth needs to circle the sun once and return to the previous position as seen from a nonrotating outside observer.
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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Education: None. Skills: None. Merits: None Religious Views: the Disc's first ligthning proof atheist (June 15, 2016 at 5:30 am)Alex K Wrote:(June 15, 2016 at 5:29 am)Aractus Wrote: As I've mentioned, the question is indeed: how many times in 1 year does the Earth rotate on its axis? That's not an assumption, that's the definition.
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