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    Ganelon
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    Timekeeping on other planets

    So, I became interested in timekeeping. Specifically, timekeeping on the planet Mars.

    When it comes to devising a day (or, a 'sol', as it is known on Mars) comfortable and familiar to humans, we have an easy task - a day on Mars is almost as large as an Earthen day, being longer by only approximately 35 minutes.

    The issue lies in creating a calendar for the planet Mars.

    To start off, the Martian year is significantly longer than the terrestrial year, being about 687 days long (686.96, to be exact). Some have attempted to address this issue by dividing the Martian year into a winter year and a summer year.

    Others have tried to use a single year, dividing it into 28-day months (which leaves us with about 24-25 months). Now, I think learning 12 extra month names and adapting to them is extremely difficult for an adult human. Which is why I dislike this system of timekeeping.

    A possible solution would be to divide the year into the 12 months we all know and love, but to lengthen each month by about 26 days. The problem with this solution is the fact that the Martian seasons aren't equal in length at all.

    What do you think? Imagine you were a settler on Mars. Which system would you prefer?

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    Ganelon
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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Fuck, I meant to post this in General Discussion, sorry xD

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Arsonist View Post
    In Eris (it's a planet in Solar System) you can't survive a single year, because year lasts longer, than your life.
    Eris is not a planet, but a mini-planet (it's not the scientific name but idk it because I'm not english)... and it's part of the Kuiper's Belt, so I'm not so sur eit's part of the Solar System. Would like to know more about this though.
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    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Marshmallow Marshall View Post
    Eris is not a planet, but a mini-planet (it's not the scientific name but idk it because I'm not english)... and it's part of the Kuiper's Belt, so I'm not so sur eit's part of the Solar System. Would like to know more about this though.
    It's a planet, as Pluto. Are you dumb? Calling that planet "isn't too big for a planet" is the dumbies thing, that i ever heard.

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Arsonist View Post
    It's a planet, as Pluto. Are you dumb? Calling that planet "isn't too big for a planet" is the dumbies thing, that i ever heard.

    HAS A GRAVITY = PLANET, THAT'S ALL.



    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    @Magoroth
    A months length is supposed to be something about a planets and it's moons relation, something about a moons orbital period or something like that, right? That's a problem since Mars has 2 moons.

    You divide a year in however many days it takes to orbit around the sun and you count days yearly, not monthly.

    Or you hope that the planet and it's moons get back to same position every x days and that the planets year can be divided by that x. Good luck with that though.

    Btw. Really surprised that days on Mars last almost same length as on Earth. Maybe it would have life on it if it was just twice as big and rotated faster around the sun?
    Last edited by OzyWho; May 19th, 2018 at 08:57 PM.

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Arsonist View Post
    More than 1 moon... That's why Pluto IS a planet.
    Does Pluto has 1 moon though? Because it's NOOOOOOT a planet.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
    Spoiler : The meaning of life :

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Arsonist View Post
    It has 5 moons. Check by yourself, normie.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Pluto



    Wtf, why you're giving links to website, that i can't load?
    o.o I thought it had 3 moons, Charon, Nix and *****. I guess wikipedia > me.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Arsonist View Post
    Stop censoring word "Hуdrа".
    Wait wtf, I typed *****. Maybe it's linked with the term "***** Account"?
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
    Spoiler : The meaning of life :

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    ...Hydralisk? But not zerg.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
    Spoiler : The meaning of life :

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Marshmallow Marshall View Post
    Eris is not a planet, but a mini-planet (it's not the scientific name but idk it because I'm not english)... and it's part of the Kuiper's Belt, so I'm not so sur eit's part of the Solar System. Would like to know more about this though.
    You mean Eris is a dwarf planet. Dwarf planets are still planets regardless.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    You mean Eris is a dwarf planet. Dwarf planets are still planets regardless.
    Wait, the English term is really dwarf planet?
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
    Spoiler : The meaning of life :

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    Dwarf planets are still planets regardless.
    Disagree. Both have their own definition and criteria.
    If we call 2 objects with different titles, different definitions and different criteria the same - then why classify anything at all?

    Question: are Planets also Dwarf Planets or are only Dwarf Planets Planets?




    But in all seriousness. It's just that your own personal definition, of what you understand of the word "Planet", can be applied to both - Planets and Dwarf Planets, and that's why they're the same to you. Realize that your own, either understanding or definition, is not the official one.
    Last edited by OzyWho; May 22nd, 2018 at 02:59 PM.

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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    I don't believe in terms that say a certain object is a certain object, because the term "planet" is something we came up with to name the large balls of mass that could possibly support life. So who is to say if Pluto is a planet?? THE TERM. Planet:a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star. Pluto is indeed a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star, our sun. Anything that has a gravitational pull however is not a planet. Because we all have a gravitational pull, but we cannot feel it because Earth's gravity is stronger than ours, (and with good reason). However, "time/date" is also an illusion that we humans have created, to keep up with "time". So I think it would be fairly simple to create a time chart on another planet, it will be fairly different than ours because ours defines the seasons that follow each month. -- My opinion
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    Ganelon
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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    Quote Originally Posted by WorldOfGenis View Post
    I don't believe in terms that say a certain object is a certain object, because the term "planet" is something we came up with to name the large balls of mass that could possibly support life. So who is to say if Pluto is a planet?? THE TERM. Planet:a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star. Pluto is indeed a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star, our sun. Anything that has a gravitational pull however is not a planet. Because we all have a gravitational pull, but we cannot feel it because Earth's gravity is stronger than ours, (and with good reason). However, "time/date" is also an illusion that we humans have created, to keep up with "time". So I think it would be fairly simple to create a time chart on another planet, it will be fairly different than ours because ours defines the seasons that follow each month. -- My opinion
    So you don't believe in terminology because you don't like terminology? What's this got to do with outer space or with the definition of a planet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magoroth View Post
    So you don't believe in terminology because you don't like terminology? What's this got to do with outer space or with the definition of a planet?
    I didn't say I don't like, or believe in it. I am saying that the terminologies that we know, mean nothing because we came up with them. The term "Planet" is defined by humans. Which means if anything goes by that definition then it is, in fact a planet.
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    Ganelon
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    Re: Timekeeping on other planets

    I had to check; the general term for an astronomical body large enough to be rounded under its own gravity but not larger enough to undergo fusion is 'planetary body'.

 

 

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