Comment on The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?

• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m intrigued by your comment, what are you referencing?

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  • Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The 3 Gorges Dam in China slowed the Earth’s rotation by .06 microseconds per day due to the amount of water moved altering the Earth’s moment of inertia

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  • GingeyBook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    interestingengineering.com/…/13-facts-about-the-c…

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  • 3laws@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My bad, added a link.

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• Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some weird grammar in that article. I thought it was AI at first.

  a figure skater attempting to spin faster will draw her arms tight to her bodies, and thereby reduce her moment of inertia.

  How many bodies does she have?

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  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    draw her arms tight to her bodies boobies

    Fixed it.

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  • 3laws@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those blade skates can kill a couple dozen people before they dull out. I’d say 69.

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