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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Gift from ancient Mesopotamia. Mesopotamians love 12 & base 60. They also liked 7. Those numbers recur in their mythology.
Americans have a weird fixation with 💯. Where Americans might use percentages, I've seen Japanese plot values in [0, 1] (ie, pure proportions).
If you want to be mad about time then I'd like to introduce you to a little thing I like to call the Gregorian calendar.
Sundials.
Now if you want to get really pissed, the magnetic North Pole is actually the South Pole of the Earth’s magnetic field. We call it the North Pole because the north side of a magnet points to it.
Don't tell them about positive/negative electron movement.
We have Babylon to thank for this
Well, then I can't complain, lovely sci-fi production.
Yeah but no matter how hard I look I can't find the first 4
Zathras took B4 so that The One could use it.
Don't mind the first 4, the best one is Babylon 7
Should I watch 5 and then 7? What about 6?
Don't worry about Babylon 6.
Worry about the sequels, where Babylon 7 8 9
Sounds scary
I get the joke, but it also makes me wish for a bunch of Babylon 5 sequels and prequels.
Not true. You have math thank for that and there is a good reason for numbers like that (and why Babylonier used them). They are very useful to do calculations in your head, especially division because the have a lot of factors. The concept is called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN). They are practically "anti-primes". That's why base-6 or base-12 are objectively a better number system than base-10 but it's pretty much too late to switch now.
Our mistake was not embracing base-12 time, it was failing to embrace a base-12 counting system.
Also why clockwise?
Earth rotates and orbits counter clockwise. It just seems more right
Earth rotates and orbits counter clockwise.
No it doesn't. It depends on the human perception of "up" and "down" which are completely arbitrary. We by convention see the North Pole as the "top" of the world but it could as easily be seen as Antarctica.
Well that depends on where you look at the earth from doesn’t it. It’s like saying ‘righty righty, lefty loosey’ which only holds true as long as you’re thinking about the top edge of the screw head.
Well, depending on which hemisphere you're standing in, at least. We arbitrarily set this idea that north = up in most depictions of the globe, but we could just as easily make Antarctica the top of the world and everything rotates the other way.
The reason why clockwise is what it is, is because sundials were first used to tell time in the northern hemisphere, where the shadows move clockwise. If it was in the southern hemisphere, they'd have moved counterclockwise (which would be clockwise).
Before the age of exploration, orientation of maps were random. North became the norm so Europe could be placed at the top center.
I say we divide the day into 100 sections. No reason really I just think it’d be cool to party until 100 o’clock.
Maybe go SI with day as base unit & SI prefixes? Eg, deciday, centiday, milliday.
You might like reading about decimal time…
sub.wetshaving.social?
What is this?
My guess is there are only so many conversations you can have over whether a Silvertip Badger is superior to a Boar brush.
But there's a million razorblades people can argue about. Platinum, tool steel, carbon. And then there's which holder is the best. And then all the straight razor refinishing/refirbishing you could get into. Not to mention, strops, towels, soaps, sebum oils, styptics and on and on.
In Ethiopia they still use the tradition time where the day starts at the 1:00 which is our 6am. Then 12:00 is our 6PM, and it starts over. So they have 2 cycles of 12 hours, one for daytime, and one for night time. And it felt somewhat more intuitively in conversation too.
I'll be there at H:00.
A lot of people white knighting clocks in this thread