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@drewnogal saidNah…more like a “Disco Ball”…staying’ alive.👍
Something like one of those sparkling ballroom globes then 🤔
@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.
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@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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-Removed-"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 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.
@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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