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Or we could do metric time (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A lunar day is 27.3 days and a solar cycle is 29 and change. So we'd be just off the lunar cycles. Like when you're sitting waiting for a turn lane signal to change and the person in front of you has a blinker that's just a tiny bit slower than yours.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah sadly the rotations of Earth around its axis, the moon around Earth, and Earth around the sun don't divide each other nicely

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why would god do this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The Lord works in DSTsterious ways

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eventually, things settle at almost perfect ratios. Everything between creates some kind of friction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Relevant Steve Mould

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So what I'm getting from this is that we need to push the Moon a bit further from the Earth, and pull the Earth a bit closer to the Sun.