December 21, 200421 yr My most hated day of the year. On the bright side it means the days only get longer from here....
December 21, 200421 yr Woohoo! I like it when it gets dark earlier. Makes the drive home interesting, but that is besides the point lol.
December 21, 200421 yr Author I swear they feel longer in late Jan. and early Feb. The sun does still go down earlier for a little while longer... but we gain more time in the mornings.
December 21, 200421 yr Raging nerd that I am, here's some Lingua Latina for the day... Solstice = [sol = sun] + [-stitium = stasis or stoppage] The term refers to the apparent noon-time elevation of the sun remaining unchanged for several days before and after the solstice. After this, the noonday sun gets higher each day and the days gradually grow longer.
December 21, 200421 yr Author Raging nerd that I am, here's some Lingua Latina for the day... Solstice = [sol = sun] + [-stitium = stasis or stoppage] The term refers to the apparent noon-time elevation of the sun remaining unchanged for several days before and after the solstice. After this, the noonday sun gets higher each day and the days gradually grow longer. [/nerd]
December 21, 200421 yr Raging nerd that I am, here's some Lingua Latina for the day... Solstice = [sol = sun] + [-stitium = stasis or stoppage] The term refers to the apparent noon-time elevation of the sun remaining unchanged for several days before and after the solstice. After this, the noonday sun gets higher each day and the days gradually grow longer. [/nerd] (Big nerd)
December 21, 200421 yr Isn't this day 24 hours like the rest of them? Isn't this the shortest daylight day of the year
December 21, 200421 yr Isn't this day 24 hours like the rest of them? Isn't this the shortest daylight day of the year Let me take this one, Mike. You're lucky you're in Texas or I'd beat the crap outta you right now!
December 21, 200421 yr Author Let me take this one, Mike. You're lucky you're in Texas or I'd beat the crap outta you right now! Word
December 21, 200421 yr Isn't this day 24 hours like the rest of them? Isn't this the shortest daylight day of the year Actually if you really wanted to get technical, one year doesn't exactly equal 365 days. It's a little more than that. Thus the need for a leap year every 4 years. That means each day is not exactly 24 hours...
December 21, 200421 yr Let me take this one, Mike. You're lucky you're in Texas or I'd beat the crap outta you right now! Speaking of Texas . . . 83°F Fair Feels Like 82°F UV Index: 2 Low Dew Point: 51°F Humidity: 33% Visibility: 10.0 miles Pressure: 29.75 inches and falling Wind: From the South at 7 mph
December 21, 200421 yr Actually if you really wanted to get technical, one year doesn't exactly equal 365 days. It's a little more than that. Thus the need for a leap year every 4 years. That means each day is not exactly 24 hours... Please don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.
December 21, 200421 yr Oelwein Municipal Airport Last Update on Dec 21, 3:15 pm CST Partly Cloudy and Breezy 12°F (-11°C) Humidity: 67 % Wind Speed: W 21 G 29 MPH Barometer: 29.98" Dewpoint: 3°F (-16°C) Wind Chill: -7°F (-22°C)
December 21, 200421 yr Actually if you really wanted to get technical, one year doesn't exactly equal 365 days. It's a little more than that. Thus the need for a leap year every 4 years. That means each day is not exactly 24 hours... Actually, if you REALLY REALLY wanted to get technical (Big Nerd Warning)... A natural or 'tropical' year, from vernal equinox to vernal equinox is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. That means there are actually 365.2422 days in the year.... Being just a little less than 365.25 days, adding up all the leap year corrections puts us off by about 0.03 days every 4-year cycle (0.0078 days a year), timekeeping errors do accumulate... So, even with a leap year system in place during the time of the Roman Empire, the slight overcorrection every 4 years was such that between 46 BC and 1582 AD, this accumulated error totalled 12.7 days. This became apparent when celestial events like the solstice that used to historically occur at one time were now occurring more than two weeks early according to Julian celendar time... Pope Greg, Part XIII to the rescue!!! Gregory gets us closer to the modern calendar by decreeing that all years divisible by 4 are to be leap years EXCEPT for century years. These now must be divisible by 400 to be leap years. (are you still with me?)... This simple (?!?) fix gives us the Gregorian Calendar which gives us an error rate of only 1 day every 3,333.3 years! The calendar was put into effect in predominantly Roman Catholic countries in the late 16th centure, and necessitated tossing out 10 whole days from the calendar then in use (tough luck if you had a birthday that year).... To really confuse things, the Brits didn't adopt the Gregorian system until 1752, which meant there were completely different calendars between Great Britain and Christian Europe for almost 200 years! But, that's only if you want to get technical... :D :D Edited December 21, 200421 yr by FlaSoxxJim
December 21, 200421 yr Ya, it was 77 here at noon. Yeeee haaaaa! ------ But it's supposed to snow tomorrow afternoon. That sucks ass. Edited December 21, 200421 yr by kapkomet
December 21, 200421 yr That technical stuff if really good. I did not know about the 400 year cycle for century years. Obviously it didn't happen in 2000 because it was the 400th year. Cool stuff.
December 21, 200421 yr That technical stuff if really good. I did not know about the 400 year cycle for century years. Obviously it didn't happen in 2000 because it was the 400th year. Cool stuff. I only found out about it because in 2000 they did an NPR piece about the whole thing. And some people don't want the government to keep funding public radio... :headshake :fyou
December 21, 200421 yr All you freakin' pessimists.... I prefer to think it's the longest NIGHT of the year! Sounds NICER, don'tcha think????
December 22, 200421 yr I only found out about it because in 2000 they did an NPR piece about the whole thing. And some people don't want the government to keep funding public radio... :headshake :fyou Yeah, America would never be the same without the factoid of the day.
December 22, 200421 yr Yeah, America would never be the same without the factoid of the day. Too true! Now, lets work on upping that NEA funding as well and we can call it a day.
December 22, 200421 yr Too true! Now, lets work on upping that NEA funding as well and we can call it a day. Nope Jim, what this country needs are more uneducated masses.
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