On 9/21/2011 4:55 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Richard B. Gilbert writes:
Too bad that the movements of of the planets, moons, etc. are not
better behaved. Lacking the powers of the divine we must work around
the fact that the earth does not rotate exactly once in each
twenty-four hours, and the fact that its revolution around the Sun is
similarly messy, taking 365 days, six hours, and a few odd minutes and
seconds which we account for (mostly) by declaring a "leap year" every
four years.
A purely local problem which should be handled by localization tables,
not by jiggering the timestream. Are you going to insert leap hours on
Mars?.
I'm not going to do ANYTHING on Mars! We could, in principle, land a
man on Mars. The cost would be enormous. The probable return on the
investment does not appear sufficient to tempt anyone.
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