Calendar reform

[trbig]

Also remember.. for the superstitious. Just like buildings don't have a 13th floor... You'll need to call this the 14th month! lol.


Tod

[MaximPhil]

I dont know if it is true but someone once told me that knots were derived from actual knots on a rope.It was the easiest way to know how far they had gone in a given amount of time.I dont know how long the rope was suppose to be ,but I guess it wouldnt have to be too long just to come up with an estimate.

Hi Tarzan,
True.In the days of sailing ships and before watches. Speed was judged by streaming a line with knots tied at specific spacing.Time measured with an Hourglass (think egg timer) made to measure a few minutes.
Knot = Nautical mile per hour.
1 Nautical mile = 1 second of Arc
60 Seconds = 1 Minute of Arc
60 Minutes = 1 degree
360 degrees of Longtitude at the Equator = Circumference of the Earth.
All this enables one to Navigate anywhere on the planet.
The little guy in the GPS unit makes all the calculations for us now when we ask.....Where the F**k are we?
Happy Thanksgiving to the South
Maxim Phil

[oseaghdha]

Nautical Mile = one minute of arc along a meridian, or at the equator.

[fredintoon]

And now, the ten day week

for those who can't count by dozens, here is a decimal clock and calendar:-
http://www.aloneone.com/other/flash/metricclock.html
or perhaps
http://www.aloneone.com/other/flash/metricclock.html/

[trbig]

Fred,

A 36 or 37 day month? For people like me that get paid just ONCE a month... that would indeed suck!


Tod

[Special Ed]

H-m-m interesting idea, creating a new calendar, but I’m thinking it would probably take the UN to pull it off, seeing as how the Julian Calendar is used internationally now. Come to think of it, this just might be the perfect thing for the UN to get involved in. It would keep them out of mischief. Knowutimeanvern?

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Mayan calendar and the year 2012 controversy I encourage you to do a google search on both. Makes for some interesting reading it does.

By the way, there is an interesting, no beautiful, astronomical event occurring now and for the next several days or so. Saturn and Mars are appearing in the heavens very close to the crescent moon. The planets are suppose to come so close together as to appear as one, very near the moon. I saw the prelude last night just as the sun set behind a mountain reflected in some delta river just east of San Francisco. I hope the readers of this get a chance to see it. Take your sweetie to a good vantage spot, and you’ll get lucky!
Special Ed