If I had the ability to adjust the Earth's orbit, I would be very slowly increasing the diameter about 10% per billion years to balance out the warming of the sun.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Gary Weinhold <[email protected]> wrote: > And if I were Emperor of the universe, I'd adjust the earth's orbit to make > sure it competed a revolution in exactly 365 days. > > gary > > On 2015-08-12 00:00, IBM-MAIN automatic digest system wrote: >> >> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:19:38 -0500 From: Paul Gilmartin >> <[email protected]> Subject: Leap (was: LOADING An AMODE64 Program) On >> Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:37:30 -0500, Joel Ewing wrote: >>> >>> > >>> >Encyclopedia Britannica is complicit in the confusion to this day by >>> >incorrectly implying in their "Leap Year" entry that in addition to the >>> >divisible by 4, 100, 400 rules there either is or should be a 4000-year >>> >exception rule: >>> >"...For still more precise reckoning, every year evenly divisible by >>> >4,000 (i.e., 16,000, 24,000, etc.) may be a common (not leap) year", >>> > >>> >Over 18 years ago (Nov 1996) EB acknowledged that no such rule exists: >>> >it was an un-adopted and sub-optimal suggestion by Sir John Herschel >>> >around 1820. EB has apparently not yet followed their own internal >>> >recommendation in 1996 "to reword this statement in the future". >>> > >> >> If I were Emperor of the Universe, I would make the rule: >> >> Every year divisible by 4 except one divisible by 128 is a leap year. >> >> 365 31/128 is within one second of the mean tropical year; closer even >> than the 4000-year rule. >> >> The unpredictable secular increase in the length of the day makes a >> 4000-year rule pointless. >> >> -- gil > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
