Separated by a common language

@orangutan said
We started in Kendal and then rode over the passes to Ravenglass.
Then in the morning set out from Ravenglass to Tynemouth following the Hadrians wall route over three days.

One morning we set out from the pub we'd lodged at, getting all our kit secured to the bikes and a couple also emerged from the pub and started getting their bags ready. A taxi pulled up and they h ...[text shortened]... ing to drop them at their next stop.
Me and my mate just looked at each other - "is that allowed?"

@moonbus said
Well, I'm 70 and retired, so the time factor is actually part of the attraction of it for me. Also, the weather gets drier as one does south, right? I mean, relative to the fact that Gt. Britain is an island in the Atlantic anyway ... 😆

@Very-Rusty said
When will you be 71, I am wondering who is older you or me? 😉

-VR

@moonbus said
The day Isaac Newton would be 383.

@moonbus said
The day Isaac Newton would be 383.

let's do math!
or
if yer engerlish, "maths"

let's do isaac's birthday!

let's combine the two and do some metamath!

https://onlinekyne.substack.com/p/why-newton-has-two-birthdays

Sources list Newton’s birthday as December 25th 1643, and this was indeed the date on the calendar when he was born (he has a Christmas birthday along with Justin Trudeau, Annie Lennox, and Dido). But outside of England, the date on the calendar was January 4th.

On Newton’s birthday, England was using an outdated calendar, the Julian calendar, which Europeans have used since Julius Caesar decreed it in 45 BC.

The Julian calendar had 365 days a year with an extra day added once every 4 years (on a leap year). That makes the average year 365.25 days long.

Except that’s wrong. Scientists realized that the length of a year should be closer to 365.2422 days long. That’s a difference of 0.0078 days, or 11 minutes and 13.92 seconds.

The Julian calendar was 11 minutes and 13.92 seconds too slow. And we had been using it for over 1600 years--that adds up to an error of 12 days!

Why Does This Matter?
If our calendar years don’t accurately line up with the Earth making a full trip around the sun, then our calendars will slowly shift out of sync with the seasons. December would no long mark the beginning of winter in the Northern hemisphere, and as Vanessa Williams sings, the snow would start coming down in June. If we want the seasons to be predictable, our calendars should be accurate to our astronomical position relative to the sun. For the Catholic church, there was an even bigger fish to fry: they might accidentally celebrate Easter on the wrong day.

The correct date for celebrating Easter has been a subject of debate among Christians since the very beginning. In 325 AD, a council of bishops agreed that Easter would be on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the Spring equinox.

The Spring equinox usually falls on March 20th (give or take a day), but if the calendars are out of sync with the astronomical solstices and equinoxes, then this is a problem.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII attempted to fix this by skipping the calendar forward by 10 days. He also modified the rules for leap years: years that are divisible by 100 but not 400 are no longer leap years. The years 500, 600, 700, 900, 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, and 1500 were all leap years under Julius Caesar’s calendar, but changed back to being regular years under Pope Gregory’s calendar (referred to as the Gregorian calendar).

This seemingly complicated change only removes 3 leap years from every 400 years. That’s about an 11 minute difference per year, which is the change we wanted! This minor change makes the average year 365.2425 days long, which is closer to the true length.

@Very-Rusty said
You can never seen to give a straight answer!@!

Silly old man I say!!! 😛

-VR

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
Isaac Newton was born on the 4th January and, apparently, shares a birthday with Moonbus.

What's not straight about that?

@rookie54 said
let's do math!
or
if yer engerlish, "maths"

let's do isaac's birthday!

let's combine the two and do some metamath!

https://onlinekyne.substack.com/p/why-newton-has-two-birthdays

Sources list Newton’s birthday as December 25th 1643, and this was indeed the date on the calendar when he was born (he has a Christmas birthday along with Justin Trudeau, Annie Lennox, ...[text shortened]... ed! This minor change makes the average year 365.2425 days long, which is closer to the true length.

@Very-Rusty said
@Ghost,

The day Isaac Newton would be 383!!!

Do you call that a straight answer?

You are more silly than moonbus is anyways in my opinion.

-VR

@moonbus said
Listen to the Ghost.

@rookie54 said
let's do math!
or
if yer engerlish, "maths"

let's do isaac's birthday!

let's combine the two and do some metamath!

https://onlinekyne.substack.com/p/why-newton-has-two-birthdays

Sources list Newton’s birthday as December 25th 1643, and this was indeed the date on the calendar when he was born (he has a Christmas birthday along with Justin Trudeau, Annie Lennox, ...[text shortened]... ed! This minor change makes the average year 365.2425 days long, which is closer to the true length.

@Very-Rusty said
You listen to him! 😛

I am pretty much bored with him to be quite frank about it.

-VR

@moonbus said
It is not my purpose in life to spare you, or anyone else for that matter, the trouble of thinking. I could have told you which moves were better, but you learned more by making them yourself. Happy now?

@Very-Rusty said

I am pretty much bored with him to be quite frank about it.