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Hoorah! Time to eat more cake  ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Is this an invitation to the annual BCF eat a load of shrooms and dance around Stonehenge naked festival?
Cos if so I'm there! ____________________ Yamaha MT-03 '08 (crashed)
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Rather worryingly, the ads on my page are showing Happy Yule cards, so it would appear that the card-giving pressure is put upon pagan rituals as well ...  ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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the evenings start to get lighter before the shortest day, the earth is in an elliptical orbit around the sun and as it reaches aphelion, furthest point of the sun and begins to turn back the gravitational pull accelerates the spinning of the earth slightly, so it pulls us round a wee bit faster making morning later
sort of thing
I got a B for GCSE in astronomy, get one of the bods with a degree in astro physics to explain it betterer
also, this;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion_and_aphelion |
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Wotcha.
May I offer you my Solstice poem . . . .
"Shortest day - longest night.
Wet and cold - Winter's shite"
Eyethangewe  ____________________ Cheers.
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| Lone-Wolf wrote: | Wotcha.
May I offer you my Solstice poem . . . .
"Shortest day - longest night.
Wet and cold - Winter's shite"
Eyethangewe  |
Keplar's First Two Laws
The fundamental Law (that's number 1)
states that each planet's path around the Sun
is not a circle, as was always thought,
but an ellipse. A loop of thread, kept taut
against two pins (the foci) , will produce
this pleasing curve, unless a pin comes loose.
One focus indicates the Sun's location.
Having defined the basic situation,
he tried to find how fast each planet went
at different point's along its path's extent
(by methods that were largely hit-and-miss).
The answer was Law 2, which goes like this:
The areas of portions A and B,
swept out in equal portions, agree!
(from The Cosmic Verses, by James Muirden, a rhyming history of the universe ) |
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There should be something about beanfields in any poems or songs about the Solstice.  |
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Tonight was supposed to have been the longest night EVAAAH on planet Earth
(Global warming says not!) ____________________ Make mine a Corona. |
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Haha
I love the old hippy stuff, might be because I know a load of old hippies though  |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 40 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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