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| From | John <Man@the.keyboard> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Mechanical or SSD for backup drive |
| Date | 2025-04-28 21:42 +0100 |
| Organization | To protect and to server |
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:36:39 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
<admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:28:27 +0200
>"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2025-04-26 21:24, Mark Lloyd wrote:
>> > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:02:35 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> >> And it varies by 34 days because Easter is declared to be the first
>> >> Sunday after a Full Moon after the Spring Equinox . But don't blame me,
>> >> I didn't start the religion.
Did anyone? I mean any *one* person?
>> >
>> > The rule I heard (for Easter date) said "ecclesiastical full moon". I
>> > don't know how that differs from the real full moon.
One is real the other is not. "Eccesiastical" means "imaginary" and
"dictated by a committee of thousands that has been running since the
4th Century".
>> >
>>
>> «An ecclesiastical full moon is formally the 14th day of the
>> ecclesiastical lunar month (an ecclesiastical moon) in an ecclesiastical
>> lunar calendar. The ecclesiastical lunar calendar spans the year with
>> lunar months of 30 and 29 days which are intended to approximate the
>> observed phases of the Moon.»
Somebody's been using the Wicked-P.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_full_moon
See? There it is.
>>
>Luckily it the moon cycle (mostly) reoccurs after 19 years, to give
>an algorithm that's OK for a few thousand years. But there's drift as the
>Moon Earth double planet system settles down.
The Moon-Earth system is not, quite, a double planet - the centre of
the mutual orbit is inside the Earth, making the Moon technically a
satellite. Also, Luna is too small. Pluto-Charon comes closer but
still is not because some eejits decided that neither Pluto nor Charon
are planets. There may not be one of those in the Solar System, not
even teenty, little asteroidal ones.
Had Selene gathered more stuff during her wanderings through the
Great Disk at the beginning of the System, we could have ended up with
a double world. That might have caused either a huge surge in the
sciences of Ecology and Biology or millions of devastating wars.
Having seen a human, I'd guess the latter was more likely. :)
> The Moon will fly off after
>a bit, but not as dramatically as in MoonBase Alpha.
Nope. The Moon is receding due to change in angular momentum by tidal
effects at 1.5" or 3.8 cm per year. That means it will take 30,000 or
so years to recede by a kilometre. To recede to twice its current
distance will take about twelve milliards of years, 12,000,000,000 or
so. Sol isn't going to be a Main Sequence, White Moderately Giant star
for that long. Indeed, Sol might cook the Earth and the Moon sometime
between now and five milliards of years from now. Our lovely little
Sun which is so calm and nice and warming is going to bloat up to a
Red Giant, swallow Mercury and Venus and possibly swallow the Earth.
The gravitational field will change, too and the other planets, the
puffy ones and Pluto, could drift out a bit or a lot or even be lost.
Earth and the Moon might survive by drifting outwards, too. We'll just
have to wait to see.
Earth isn't ever going to lose its moon, not until we lose Earth,
too. The tidal drift is just too little.
We're probably not even going to run out of total Solar Eclipses any
time soon, which reminds me:
If Luna is between Earth and Sol that is a Solar Eclipse;
If Earth is between Luna and Sol that is a Lunar Eclipse;
If Sol is between Earth and Luna ....... that is a really *bad* day.
John's Law of Terrestrial Eclipses. :)
J.
Note: our Sol is white, not yellow, and she is much larger than 90% of
the stars in the Galaxy which makes her moderately Giant. Calling her
a "yellow dwarf" is simply *rude*. :)
Sol looks yellow because her light reaches us after running through a
blue fluid. Her peak radiation amplitude is in the bright green.
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