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Happy leap day

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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.


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Something like one of those sparkling ballroom globes then 🤔


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


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Jeeze 2nd rare green thumb this month! This is unheard of. 🙂

Well said!

-VR


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"Gosh you’re extremely well read."


One Australian leap-day baby born 29 February 2024 has a fairly unusual father - he was also born on 29 February. The odds are apparently an awful lot of millions against.


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Thanks rusty.


My grandfather would be been about 25 today 😄




@the-gravedigger said
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.
Mars is colonized?

That's a new one on me.

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@a-unique-nickname said
Thanks rusty.
Trev,
I didn't miss the poke at me, even if copy and pasted it was fitting for the leap year month! 😉

-VR

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"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.

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@suzianne said
"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.
Now we know the whole story on the 'bit'. 🙂

-VR

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