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Ok, so who decided years are 365 days and days are 24 hours and that's how we should measure the passing of time?
I'm sure there is a sciencey thing about rotation and it's got to have something to do with daylight/nighttime but still...why does everyone just accept and go along with it?
*note...I used to make up my own math in school and do make up my own words too...'cause somebody did one day and it caught on, so why not me!
!!My life, My way!!
Since the establishment of the SI (International System of Units (Système Internationale d’Unités or SI) system in 1967, a second is technically defined in more precise and absolute atomic terms as “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom”. In 1997, this definition was made even more specific with the stipulation that this refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of 0° Kelvin.
Given that the Earth is very gradually slowing, and the mean solar day on which the original definition of a second was based has not remained the same, its definition is arguably a historical and cultural choice, even an arbitrary one. But at least the atomic definition we now use, whatever its provenance, will always remain constant. All other units of time measurement are now derived from the second. In fact, because we can measure time more accurately than length, even the SI measurement of the metre is defined in terms of the distance travelled by light in 0.000000003335640952 seconds.
Universal Time (UT)
Universal Time (UT) is based on mean solar time (i.e. based on the rotation of the Earth), and so is the same everywhere on Earth. UT replaced the older telescope-based system Greenwich Mean Time (see below) in 1928 as the worldwide time standard for the setting of Standard Time (also see below), although the older term GMT is still often used informally to refer to UT. The principal form of Universal Time is UT1, which is computed from observations of astronomical phenomena even more precise than measurements of the Sun, including observations of distant stars and quasars, laser ranging of the Moon and artificial satellites, and the determination of GPS satellite orbits, scaled and adjusted slightly to make them closer to solar time. UT2 (rarely used today) is a smoothed version of UT1, which filters out periodic seasonal variations.
TL;DR - Time units weren't decided, they were measured but there are different ways to measure it.
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_Deadman_Walking_ wrote: »Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
I hope you’re having a great time J.
Thanks, I am.
Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
Are you in North or South Cali?
I’m about 30 miles North of LA.0 -
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Just_J_Now wrote: »_Deadman_Walking_ wrote: »Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
I hope you’re having a great time J.
Thanks, I am.Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
Are you in North or South Cali?
I’m about 30 miles North of LA.
Have you gone to Hollywood yet or Venice Beach/Santa Monica Pier?0 -
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Just_J_Now wrote: »_Deadman_Walking_ wrote: »Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
I hope you’re having a great time J.
Thanks, I am.Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
Are you in North or South Cali?
I’m about 30 miles North of LA.
Have you gone to Hollywood yet or Venice Beach/Santa Monica Pier?
Santa Monica Pier yes. Did not go to Hollywood this time but I have been before. Probably heading to Beach in Malibu later, unless it’s too cloudy and cold like yesterday.0 -
Putting together a gift basket of redbox promo codes, popcorn and candy for my daughter's soccer coach. THeir last game is tonight. I normally don't do coach gifts but this coach was really really good and they do volunteer their time so....
Cheesy gift? Or nah?2 -
RunHardBeStrong wrote: »Putting together a gift basket of redbox promo codes, popcorn and candy for my daughter's soccer coach. THeir last game is tonight. I normally don't do coach gifts but this coach was really really good and they do volunteer their time so....
Cheesy gift? Or nah?
I think any sweet little gesture goes a long way. Volunteers for sports takes a lot of commitment.1 -
Just_J_Now wrote: »Just_J_Now wrote: »_Deadman_Walking_ wrote: »Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
I hope you’re having a great time J.
Thanks, I am.Just_J_Now wrote: »My last vacation day in Cali, what to do, what to do?
Are you in North or South Cali?
I’m about 30 miles North of LA.
Have you gone to Hollywood yet or Venice Beach/Santa Monica Pier?
Santa Monica Pier yes. Did not go to Hollywood this time but I have been before. Probably heading to Beach in Malibu later, unless it’s too cloudy and cold like yesterday.
There are a ton of surfers in Malibu. I bet you could get one to give you surfing lessons.
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
I could have sworn I saw a different word when I first read that.
Ooh I wonder if that gets a kitten. Queef.
This should be the word of the day, worked into as many posts as possible. I'd do it, but it takes too much effort for a Monday.0 -
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lavinia_whateley_goals wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
I could have sworn I saw a different word when I first read that.
Ooh I wonder if that gets a kitten. Queef.
This should be the word of the day, worked into as many posts as possible. I'd do it, but it takes too much effort for a Monday.
i think “curve” was already christened as the word of the day
Could we combine the two into one super word?0 -
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »lavinia_whateley_goals wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
I could have sworn I saw a different word when I first read that.
Ooh I wonder if that gets a kitten. Queef.
This should be the word of the day, worked into as many posts as possible. I'd do it, but it takes too much effort for a Monday.
i think “curve” was already christened as the word of the day
Could we combine the two into one super word?
Qurve?
I like it. sounds like the name of a fancy perfume
Mmm the only fragrance that makes a noise.
and ignores you at the same time0 -
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »lavinia_whateley_goals wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
I could have sworn I saw a different word when I first read that.
Ooh I wonder if that gets a kitten. Queef.
This should be the word of the day, worked into as many posts as possible. I'd do it, but it takes too much effort for a Monday.
i think “curve” was already christened as the word of the day
Could we combine the two into one super word?
Qurve?
I like it. sounds like the name of a fancy perfume
Mmm the only fragrance that makes a noise.
"the sound of her heartbeat"NewlifeinNW wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »lavinia_whateley_goals wrote: »NewlifeinNW wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
I could have sworn I saw a different word when I first read that.
Ooh I wonder if that gets a kitten. Queef.
This should be the word of the day, worked into as many posts as possible. I'd do it, but it takes too much effort for a Monday.
i think “curve” was already christened as the word of the day
Could we combine the two into one super word?
Qurve?
I like it. sounds like the name of a fancy perfume
Mmm the only fragrance that makes a noise.
and ignores you at the same time
Oh I was thinking more along the lines of the sound of a queef when you press down on the spray nozzle thing. The spritzer? You guys know what I’m talking about, right?
When you launch the IPO, I want in0 -
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What about a royal perfume called Queen LaQueefa?2
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