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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 3:27 am
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(June 16, 2016 at 2:45 am)Maelstrom Wrote: (June 16, 2016 at 2:44 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Sure it does, because it recognizes that the question is incomplete and could be answered one of two ways - and 365 is not one of them.
Even if there is a decimal point with a retarded average, 365 should still count.
Now, if you realize the difference between the question asked here, and the question answered in your link, you will have learned something amusing. Alternatively, read Jules Verne.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 3:30 am
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(June 16, 2016 at 3:27 am)Alex K Wrote: Alternatively, read Jules Verne.
Yeah, because it makes logical sense that a fiction writer would have the real answer as opposed to mathematics.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 3:32 am
(June 16, 2016 at 3:30 am)Maelstrom Wrote: (June 16, 2016 at 3:27 am)Alex K Wrote: Alternatively, read Jules Verne.
Yeah, because it makes logical sense that a fiction writer would have the real answer as opposed to mathematics.
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The relevant mathematical effect is the big plot twist at the end of "Around the World..."
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 3:37 am
I couldn't find a place for my answer? I don't believe the earths rotation which is inertia can be described as Physically rotating ... I may be wrong but would welcome an answer?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 3:38 am
(June 16, 2016 at 3:32 am)Alex K Wrote: The relevant mathematical effect is the big plot twist at the end of "Around the World..."
Fictionally relevant, you mean.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 4:09 am
(June 16, 2016 at 3:38 am)Maelstrom Wrote: (June 16, 2016 at 3:32 am)Alex K Wrote: The relevant mathematical effect is the big plot twist at the end of "Around the World..."
Fictionally relevant, you mean.
It becomes actually relevant if you do what they do in the novel.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 4:24 am
The problem is I think that we cannot agree on what a year is, or what a rotation means?
ambiguous question?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 4:27 am
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(June 16, 2016 at 4:24 am)ignoramus Wrote: The problem is I think that we cannot agree on what a year is, or what a rotation means?
ambiguous question?
Why don't we run with my definition? A year as the time it takes for the earth to travel around the sun and return to the same place as seen from a nonrotating observer, e.g. the fixed stars. Rotation means rotation of earth around earth's own axis, and you count them by waiting until the earth has the same orientation again with respect to the stars. It's the clearest and most unambiguous definition.
The year as we count it on the calender is obviously not exactly the same, because we divide the average length into longer leap years and shorter regular years.
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 4:29 am
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(June 16, 2016 at 4:09 am)Alex K Wrote: It becomes actually relevant if you do what they do in the novel.
Isn't that what theists state in relation to the bible?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 4:30 am
(June 16, 2016 at 4:29 am)Maelstrom Wrote: (June 16, 2016 at 4:09 am)Alex K Wrote: It becomes actually relevant if you do what they do in the novel.
Isn't that what theists state in relation to the bible?
No thank you. I'll reside here in reality. The world of fiction is all yours. Have fun.
You're being really silly now. If a piece of science is described in a novel, that doesn't make it a fiction. You might just as well call Laundromats ficticious because they appear in some movies.
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