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   Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 09:05:13 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

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   Without derision, as kindly and simply as I could, I talked about the earth's rotation and how that wasn't tied to the period of the earth's orbit.

   I didn't feel like my words meant much at all to him.

   That felt like a vast and terrible chasm.

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     Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 09:05:14 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

     "How many days does a year have? Is it...it's 365, isn't it? Why? Why is that?" he said.

     "A circle has 360 degrees. A circle is perfect. And a year is a circle. So, why doesn't a year have 360 days?" he said.

     He wasn't goofing. This was his sincere question.

     #astronomy

     Minoru Saba repeated this.