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Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.
The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.
This all too complicated for those voting for Trump and therefore they have their own “Truth Calendar”.
Flat-earth believers don’t need leap years because in their universe the earth doesn’t orbit the sun; for them the sun is actually a light held above the plane of the flat earth disc and it sort of rotates above us.
So if you’re thinking of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.
Just don’t.
@divegeester saidThere is also a glass dome above the earth so space travel is a lie.
Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.
The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.
This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.
Just don’t.
Apart from the advanced space programme that the Deep State has used to colonise Mars.
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@divegeester saidSomething like one of those sparkling ballroom globes then 🤔
Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.
Flat-earth believers don’t need leap years because in their universe the earth doesn’t orbit the sun; for them the sun is actually a light held above the plane of the flat earth disc and it sort of rotates above us.
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@drewnogal saidNah…more like a “Disco Ball”…staying’ alive.👍
Something like one of those sparkling ballroom globes then 🤔
@divegeester saidJeeze 2nd rare green thumb this month! This is unheard of. 🙂
Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.
The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.
This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.
Just don’t.
Well said!
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@divegeester said"Gosh you’re extremely well read."
Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.
The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.
This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.
Just don’t.
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@divegeester saidThanks rusty.
Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.
The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.
This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.
Just don’t.
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@the-gravedigger saidMars is colonized?
There is also a glass dome above the earth so space travel is a lie.
Apart from the advanced space programme that the Deep State has used to colonise Mars.
That's a new one on me.
@a-unique-nickname saidTrev,
Thanks rusty.
I didn't miss the poke at me, even if copy and pasted it was fitting for the leap year month! 😉
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@divegeester said"and a bit"
The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
That bit is 0.2425 days, which is why we have to cram in an extra day every 4 years to keep things straight. Because the extra bit is not a full 0.25 (0.2425 is 97/400), we have to ease off every 100 years and not have a leap day in years divisible by 100, unless they are also divisible by 400, in which case it IS a leap year. (So 2000 was a leap year, but 2100 will not be.)
Hey, blame the Gregorian calendar on Pope Gregory XIII and the Catholic Church in general. They needed the lunar-based Easter celebration to stay in the springtime, instead of meandering towards winter.
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@suzianne saidNow we know the whole story on the 'bit'. 🙂
"and a bit"
That bit is 0.2425 days, which is why we have to cram in an extra day every 4 years to keep things straight. Because the extra bit is not a full 0.25 (0.2425 is 97/400), we have to ease off every 100 years and not have a leap day in years divisible by 100, unless they are also divisible by 400, in which case it IS a leap year. (So 2000 was a leap year, but 2 ...[text shortened]... the lunar-based Easter celebration to stay in the springtime, instead of meandering towards winter.
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