Eisegerwind Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 Happy 2020 solstice,nice day for it,things can only get better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Melting my brain reading about this today. It seems in 10000 years time we'll be celebrating the summer solstice in December... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted June 20, 2020 Author Share Posted June 20, 2020 40 minutes ago, Toepoke said: Melting my brain reading about this today. It seems in 10000 years time we'll be celebrating the summer solstice in December... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles Maybe if we washed our hands a bit more or stayed in our houses 24/7 we could stop this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaundy Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 6 hours ago, Toepoke said: Melting my brain reading about this today. It seems in 10000 years time we'll be celebrating the summer solstice in December... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles Waaay, so our elliptical planetary speed varies massively on our annual ca 280,000,000 mile trip around the sun ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 (edited) 8 hours ago, Shaundy said: Waaay, so our elliptical planetary speed varies massively on our annual ca 280,000,000 mile trip around the sun ! I made the mistake of mixing beer and physics last night. The summer solstice will not move to December as the Gregorian calendar takes care of the drift in the equinoxes (it skips 3 leap years every 400 years). What it will mean is that in 10,000 years perihelion, the closest point to the sun, will happen in June which should have a positive impact on the Scottish climate 😎 Edited June 21, 2020 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisegerwind Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 It's not dark,stayin' up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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