Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

[Cassia]

The Egyptians came up with the 24 hour day. Two cycles of tweleve. 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour comes from Babylon. The 60 number most likely because they divided a circle into 360 degrees. The sun moves through the sky ~1 degree per day and their calander was based on 360 days.

So early mechanical clock makers were just using a time keeping system that had been around for a few milenium before the fist mechanical clocks.

Leap years don't perfectly correct the discrepancy between the calendar year and the Earth's orbit around the sun. Adding a leap day every four years overcompensates slightly. To further refine this, the Gregorian calendar, the most common calendar system, skips leap years in century years unless they are also divisible by 400.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well that's easy to remember.

[PopeyesPappy]

Leap years don't perfectly correct the discrepancy between the calendar year and the Earth's orbit around the sun. Adding a leap day every four years overcompensates slightly. To further refine this, the Gregorian calendar, the most common calendar system, skips leap years in century years unless they are also divisible by 400.

Which is why 2000 was a leap year but 1900 was not. 2100, 2200, 2300 will be. 2400 will not be. Basiclly we skip a leap year every 100 years but skip a skip every 400.

[PopeyesPappy]

There is probably nobody alive today that was around the last time we skipped a leap year. Hopefully there will still be somebody around that knows what we are talking about here when the next one rolls around.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There is probably nobody alive today that was around the last time we skipped a leap year. Hopefully there will still be somebody around that knows what we are talking about here when the next one rolls around.

Doubt it. They hide that kind of information in books.

[Blackleaf]

If you don't know the context, a Australian group called "Collective Shout" has been pressuring payment processors (mainly VISA) into bullying Steam and itch.io into removing games that they don't like. While most of the games that have been removed (at least from Steam) have been slop that next to no one will fight for, people are correctly identifying this as a dangerous precedent.

Edited for correction. Crikey.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And we already have one dangerous president.

[PopeyesPappy]

Doubt it. They hide that kind of information in books.

If we aren't living in the new stone age or gone extinct.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If we aren't living in the new stone age or gone extinct.

I am immoral imortal. I'll see a few ages roll bye.

[the_antithesis]

If you don't know the context, a Canadian group called "Collective Shout"

Austrailian.

[drunkenshoe]

It's me.

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[drunkenshoe]

This is so true...lol