At what time would you reverse this for when the sun starts expanding? There's gonna be some gravity balancing to be done....
Sent from iPhone - small keyboard fat fingers - expect spellinf errots. > On Aug 13, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
