the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots

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• lowleveldata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Weird that you chose the one event that is actually astronomically significant

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yea, plus the world can be pretty miserable. It’s nice to celebrate or have things to look forward to from time to time.

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    • cypherix93@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “can be”

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• 211@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Any reason to celebrate in a way all participants/effected find enjoyable is a good reason. Not very intelligent aliens.

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  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Image

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• Ste41th@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nah at this point we are celebrating the fact that we haven’t fully fucked the planet over yet

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  • obscur_e@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    you did long ago

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    • allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then we’re celebrating that we’ve continued to fuck the planet up and escaped the major looming consequences for another year.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      They did? Finally, someone to blame.

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No, celebration of a completed orbit around our star does not mean we are idiots.

  It means that we have managed to determine how long an orbit around the star takes, a significant scientific discovery.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Then we chose a completely arbitrary point that doesn’t line up with either the apsides or the solstices to represent “zero”.

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    • EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We stick with it at this point because it’s not worth the hassle of changing it, and while points related to our axial tilt or the eccentricity of our orbit are less arbitrary it ultimately doesn’t matter. It is about the time that has passed and one point in the orbit is as good as another.

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  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think the joke is that to the aliens, it is does not display a level of intelligence that comes anywhere close to theirselves.

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    • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Hyperintelligent aliens should understand that comedy shouldn’t punch down!

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Especially hyperintelligent civilizations would recognize the acchivement, even if it isn’t on their level

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  REAL intelligent species celebrate the Half-Life Of The Proton Day!

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m with the aliens on this one. Celebrating an approximate orbit seems silly but fine, but then we throw so much into it. So many people put real mental trauma on the line because they think one day of the cycle is better for making personal changes than any other. And the amount of money that is spent is just gross. Think of how many people could be fed just for what is spent on confetti - in literally turning useful paper into garbage and dropping it on people (NYC alone dropped 100,000lbs of it last year).

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If we are in a closed elliptical orbit, where is the reference point to call it a year?

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  • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To be fair, NYD is pretty close to perihelion (according to Wikipedia).

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I actually think there is a reason to celebrate that we made it another year…it doesn’t seem so obvious we will anymore. Will we make it through 2025 too?

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