nymnympseudonymFor those who celebrate
https://piefed.social/c/memes/p/1604008/for-those-who-celebrate
TheLeadenSeaMerry Newtonmas!
Mass or weight?
Sorry, I am more of a Leibniz person
SeductiveTortoiseNon-Newtonian, hm?
Sorry, I’m too thick to understand it quickly. But if you explain it slowly it’ll get through.
The slow blade penetrates the shield
HotsauceHurricaneHappy birthday Isaac Newton, your jam filled cookies are delightful.
They’re not cookies. They’re Newtons
Onno (VK6FLAB)We’ll, that’s interesting:
During Newton’s lifetime, two calendars were in use in Europe: the Julian (“Old Style” calendar in Protestant and Orthodox regions, including Britain; and the Gregorian (“New Style”) calendar in Roman Catholic Europe. At Newton’s birth, Gregorian dates were ten days ahead of Julian dates; thus, his birth is recorded as taking place on 25 December 1642 Old Style, but it can be converted to a New Style (modern) date of 4 January 1643. By the time of his death, the difference between the calendars had increased to eleven days. Moreover the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March, therefore the Newton’s death on 20 March was still dated as 1726 O.S. there.
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Me and my mother were looking into this because of a random discussion about dating systems and her time in the Navy; an interesting thing about the Julian calendar is that one of its date forms (ordinal) is still in somewhat-common use by the US military; just with the Gregorian leap days added in. So today’s date could be rendered as 25359 (2025 day #359).
edgemaster72Stardate 25359.16: NiHaDuncan has made an interesting post about dating systems on Earth. Calendar dating, not romantic dating. This post has gotten off rails quickly.
gandalf_der_12te25359
the only sane way to describe dates
if you consider that days and year are astronomically sound constructs while months and weeks are made up
Do not forget Red Green either! He turns 80 today!
**If the Ladies don’t find you handsome, at least let them find you handy!
Cracks_InTheWallsFor folks waking up to a weird morning: “I’m pulling for ya; We’re all in this together.”
Steve Smith was born on the 24th. I’m not aware Red Green’s birthday is known.
My bad; Red Green also just turned 80! And wow, Patrick McKenna is amazing!
DigitIf you have a Roku tv, there’s literally a whole channel
Everyone knows that Leibniz goes on the top of the tree
nagaram
gwl [he/him]Newton was a fucking prick by basically every account, he also didn’t believe in the idea of “Science isn’t about ego”, and any time people put up legitimate arguments against some of his theories, he spent every waking moment trying to make their life hell
Yes he was an insufferable asshole. And he’s significantly responsible for our modern world with its ability to sustain billions more humans at a higher quality of life than any king had in the 1600’s.
I always try remember that when I encounter intelligent people with no social skills. You don’t know if you’re dealing with just an asshole, or an asshole with a gift of immense value.
Well, and from landed gentry, so he had the time and money to fuck around, and her away with being a prick
And he’s significantly responsible for our modern world with its ability to sustain billions more humans at a higher quality of life than any king had in the 1600’s.
That would be “fossil fuels”, Alex. I have no idea what you’re getting at. Unless you’re one of those who thinks the space race is responsible for creating computers or something along those lines, in which case don’t even bother responding, my eyes can only spin back in my head once.
They mean the codification of Newtonian Gravity in a mathematical theory, which like, for all the terrible shit he did, that’s the one good thing that he definitely did do