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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on Geek Trivia: In what year is the current Gregorian leap year system expected to 'fail?' ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[The discussion was]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what happens if you're on the moon and the sun is eclipsed by the earth. I don't think that's what you're talking about.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[djed]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:15:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For the moon]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It happens only once a month (well, every 28 point something days, anyway)  ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:50:30 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Technically, I suppose,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[if you call nighttime &quot;shadowtime.&quot; The dictionary says a shadow is a dark area cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting the light.But that happens more than once a month.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[djed]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:08:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When the side of the moon we see]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[is the side away from the sun, that's pretty much what happens, eh?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:00:41 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The moon's shadow falls on the moon?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[djed]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:14:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Current Gregorian leap year system expected to 'fail?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-388050-3645454]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Humans invented this calender thing and now behave like the whole cosmos runs as per the thing.The mind boggles.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[premdas67@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:39:51 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ohhh]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[kaaaay...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:49:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My momma always said...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you have nothing nice to say, save it until you're smarting for a fight.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:12:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is definately true ... dk]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For instance, one type of stellar science that is credible and vast is Vedic Astrology, and it also overlaps with astronomical science as well. In depth, the Vedic form of Astrology is actually derived from both Arabic and Indian origins. I delved into this some more and found that if you refer to these symbols on astronomy, a stitch in time and energy is created. It is kind-of a cross between the major and minor houses of the stellar realm and the Arabic Parts. Kavhli and Balic astronmony-astrology which is highly an Indian culture, is also very precise and accurate. It is very much inter-twined with astronomy as well.So, in my belief, I think that if we use another form of metaphysical study, we and the experts can derive a form of new inductive reasoning for as to how the so called leap year can be accentuated through tinkering around with the Gregorian Calendar. We all know that time is inconceivable depending on how it is perceived, but that doesn't mean we cannot manipulate it. So, thus, this long-standing form of science still remains strong. We go by the Julian Calendar, however many pagans and occultists use the Gregorian Calendar sometimes. It is likely that we have become thought-provoked here, and know we will overlook the meanings that are behind our society's choice of a calendar. Hopefully, they are already working on this, but in more importance, we can change the ways things unfold with our own free will, whether it be a calendar, an assignment, or a long-planned event; we have the choice to determine the most possible outcomes for ourselves.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[crcgraphix]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:36:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's not the earth's shadow falling on the moon every month...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's the moon's own shadow.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:40:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nah, this is 55 S.A.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[But it's still not moot, the calendar year can't very well be the same as the astronomic year, and if it isn't then we need to add and subtract... and if we only have a threefold iteration (quadrannual (-), centennial (-) and quattrocentennial (+)), then we get a fail in 8000... moving new-years won't help since it depends on the time of the equinox.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:22:04 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Back in the olden days]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[people who did not believe that the earth was the center of everything, were imprisoned, or worse. Just another case of belief overriding science, Galileo got off easy with just house arrest for life, I guess they liked him and knew he was right, but still refused to accept it due to their beliefs.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Jay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:40:48 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[But it's all moot anyway.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Because since all our calendars have an arbitrary beginning, we can change them anytime we want to, just like pope Greg did in medieval times. Besides, this isn't 2012 to all people in the world. The muslims have 1433, buddhists have 2556, You can check the rest here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Year_in_other_calendarsSo, should we call next year Wikiyear 1, and reset all inconsistencies?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dukhalion]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:16:56 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I got that in the beginning...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess I lost track of the different kinds of rotation.Ultimately though, without absolute space, rotation is a relative thing. We can easily posit that the earth is standing perfectly still, in an imaginary universal origo, and everything else just hurtles about in a very haphazard way ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:41:54 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The rotation slowing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[not the orbit, the orbit is stable, it is only the rotation on our axis that is slowing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Jay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:18:22 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OMG, the know-it-all was &quot;right&quot;... I guess that makes it a quibble after all!]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-388050-3644039]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia: The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the &quot;bis sextum&quot;literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or &quot;bissextile&quot; day since the third century.[1] February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages.Grraaagh, but what a piece of geek trivia, eh? I look forward to saying at parties that &quot;He was born on a leap day, Feb 24 1896...&quot; just to see the WTH faces ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:10:22 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Needlessly convoluted...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Century years that end in 00? Don't they all?Anyway, the best description is the one that keeps one variable only: A leap year is a Gregorian calendar year that is evenly divisible by 4, unless it is evenly divisible by 100, but with the addition of years evenly divisible by 400.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:06:34 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The earth can't stop in its tracks at all...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If it &quot;slows down&quot; it will &quot;drop&quot; into a lower orbit - remember that orbiting is actually &quot;falling into the sun, but missing by a constant amount&quot;. Less missing means lower orbit. The Earth won't experience serious &quot;braking&quot; until  its orbit reaches the denser parts of the sun... which would make the whole thing rather academic from my perspective.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:53:11 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Several billion years?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[By then the sun will be working on its red giant stage, I do not think we have time for the earth to slow to a stop before the sun fails.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Jay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:54:51 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You are correct]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It makes NO sense whatsover.I think somebody was having you on...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:48:23 -0800</pubDate>
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