It just ain't right

[Phil]

Dear Alex

Please rest assured that we are located well away from the centre of the Milky Way and its big black hole(s). Nature has much more creative ways planned to destroy the Earth.

I believe that it is now believed that the year is lengthening by 47 ns per year. Just wait another 1,360,340,425,532 years and every year will be a leap year, conveniently 366 days long. Patience, dear friend.

Meanwhile, a very happy approximately-new-year to you, yours, and all AMRAD members with best wishes for roughly 2019.

Regards,

Phil M1GWZ




> On 1 Jan 2019, at 07:42, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:
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>     It takes 365 1/4 days for our planet to circle the Sun. We have leap years every 4 years to make up for this oddity so our calender's don't get wacky over time. This of course means that on the new years between leap years we haven't made a complete orbit around the sun on New Years eve. In a leap year we celebrate the start of a new orbit a day late. We just have to get used to this as it would be very difficult and perhaps very dangerous to change our planets orbit so it was exactly 365 days. Even so it just don't seem quite right to me. 
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>     And while I'm on the subject I've been wondering since our planets orbit around the sun is at 90° (close enough!) to the path of the sun's orbit in the Milky way (we are headed North) then at this point in the Earth's orbit, I mean New Years, are we in the same place relative to the center of the galaxy every year? Which side are we on, close to the center or away?  You see I just feel more comfortable when we are 180,000,000 miles further away from the black holes I've heard of at the heart of the Milky Way.  
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> 
> Anyway happy New Year folks, enjoy the ride...
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