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    Inacurate Date

    So how many of y'all watches said 1st March today then? Mine did!

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    Mine will say it's the 30th tomorrow...

    Funny thing about leap years. 2004 is a leap year, as was 2000. 1900 was not, and nor will 2100 be, since the final year of a century is not a leap year unless it's a multiple of 400.

    Why? Well, we all know the reason we have leap years is that the Earth rotates around the Sun in 364 and a bit days, and the leap years are there to balance that out over 4 years. Well, missing 3 leap years every 400 years is necessary to keep it accurate.

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    You'd think someone would come up with some giant rocket boosters to strap to the Earth and speed us up a bit to get rid of this confusing leap year thing...

    And while they're on that, how about one to sort out this tilted axis thingy to? That way we wouldn't have to keep adding or losing an hour each spring and autumn too!
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    mine says '29'... so we'll see what happens tomorrow i guess

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    Quote Originally Posted by streetster
    mine says '29'... so we'll see what happens tomorrow i guess

    mark
    or when your still up on the forums at 12...

    will check mine then

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deckard
    And while they're on that, how about one to sort out this tilted axis thingy to? That way we wouldn't have to keep adding or losing an hour each spring and autumn too!
    Would you really want it to be the british spring time all the time?

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    no, can't we tilt it a bit more to have a nice english summer ALL the time, but without the hose-pipe bans, fat birds in bikinis and people in deckchairs with hankerchiefs on their heads and football logo tans on their stomachs...
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    Actually you'd have to give the earth a year long wobble for that to happen. But i shall not bore you with the details, it took 20 minutes to explain to my family with the aid of an orange, cherry tomato and a coctail stick

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    Quote Originally Posted by silent ben
    Actually you'd have to give the earth a year long wobble for that to happen. But i shall not bore you with the details, it took 20 minutes to explain to my family with the aid of an orange, cherry tomato and a coctail stick

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    Ok, got a mandarin (sorry, no oranges)... but I've made up for the smallness of the mandarin by using a toffee revel instead of a tomato. I have a cocktail stick and I'm all ready to be enlightened!
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    Fine then, settle down children and learn all about the seasons

    orange = sun
    tomato = earth
    coctail stick = earths axis

    1) push coctail stick through centre of tomato (or revel)
    2) place orange (or mandarin) in centre of a table
    3) tilt the top of the coctail stick 30 deg towards the orange. (position 1)
    4) keeping the coctail stick at the same angle, take it over to the other side of the orange. The bottom of the coctail stick should now be closer than the top to the orange. (position 2)

    in position 1, the top of the earth (tomato) is closest to the sun (orange), in position 2, the bottom of the earth is closest to the sun.

    Now change the tilt, you will see that a different part of the earth is closer to the sun. So any change in tilt of the earth mearly changes the position of the tropics (tropics are located at the highest point on the earth where the sun is directly overhead at 1 point in the year).

    If you really wanted to (and it was possible) you could change the earths tilt by 50 degrees and make britain go through the new equator (but you'd change japan into the north pole, and south-central africa in the south pole).

    In short, any movement of the axis of the earth, will result in an overall hotter or cooler climate, so you wont get the nice medium heat summers you want unless you want it to be about -10 all winter

    Ben

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    ok... now what happens if the Earth, or revel, splits in two? Cos I tried to push the stick through but it was one of those rotten damn orange cream thingies that you always think is a toffee and then find out its not... I've tried licking it to stick it back together but all I've done is melt the Earths crust, so it's bye bye Africa... or it could be South America... or a large part of the Pacific....

    Oh... and now my daughter's run off with the mandarin... I think I've got a tennis ball somewhere....

    flip... now I've dropped the cocktail stick down the back of the number keys... hang on...

    78638659396250671034963195813695879643964872968015436583940578902061784090369927693465

    oh bugger... gonna have to go get another stick....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deckard
    ok... now what happens if the Earth, or revel, splits in two?
    Then you shouldn't play God

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