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    Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.

    The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.

    There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.

    This all too complicated for those voting for Trump and therefore they have their own “Truth Calendar”.

    Flat-earth believers don’t need leap years because in their universe the earth doesn’t orbit the sun; for them the sun is actually a light held above the plane of the flat earth disc and it sort of rotates above us.

    So if you’re thinking of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.

    Just don’t.
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    @divegeester said
    Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.

    The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.

    There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.

    This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.

    Just don’t.
    There is also a glass dome above the earth so space travel is a lie.
    Apart from the advanced space programme that the Deep State has used to colonise Mars.
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    @divegeester said
    Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.

    Flat-earth believers don’t need leap years because in their universe the earth doesn’t orbit the sun; for them the sun is actually a light held above the plane of the flat earth disc and it sort of rotates above us.
    Something like one of those sparkling ballroom globes then 🤔
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    @drewnogal said
    Something like one of those sparkling ballroom globes then 🤔
    Nah…more like a “Disco Ball”…staying’ alive.👍
  5. SubscriberVery Rusty
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    29 Feb '24 14:47
    @divegeester said
    Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.

    The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.

    There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.

    This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.

    Just don’t.
    Jeeze 2nd rare green thumb this month! This is unheard of. 🙂

    Well said!

    -VR
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    @divegeester said
    Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.

    The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.

    There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.

    This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.

    Just don’t.
    "Gosh you’re extremely well read."
  7. SubscriberKewpie
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    29 Feb '24 15:18
    One Australian leap-day baby born 29 February 2024 has a fairly unusual father - he was also born on 29 February. The odds are apparently an awful lot of millions against.
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    @divegeester said
    Today is “leap day”, the once in every 4 years “29th February”.

    The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.

    There is always/usually a US presidential election in a leap year. Unless it’s a year divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400 there is still a leap year.

    This all too complicated for tho ...[text shortened]... king of meeting up with a Trump supporting flat earther on the 29th February. Don’t.

    Just don’t.
    Thanks rusty.
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    My grandfather would be been about 25 today 😄
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    @very-rusty said

    Well said!

    -VR
    Thanks.
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    @pettytalk said
    "Gosh you’re extremely well read."
    Thanks.
  12. SubscriberSuzianne
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    29 Feb '24 19:14
    @the-gravedigger said
    There is also a glass dome above the earth so space travel is a lie.
    Apart from the advanced space programme that the Deep State has used to colonise Mars.
    Mars is colonized?

    That's a new one on me.
  13. SubscriberVery Rusty
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    29 Feb '24 19:191 edit
    @a-unique-nickname said
    Thanks rusty.
    Trev,
    I didn't miss the poke at me, even if copy and pasted it was fitting for the leap year month! 😉

    -VR
  14. SubscriberSuzianne
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    29 Feb '24 19:431 edit
    @divegeester said
    The earth takes 365 and a bit days to orbit the sun and a day on earth isn’t quite 24 full hours.
    "and a bit"

    That bit is 0.2425 days, which is why we have to cram in an extra day every 4 years to keep things straight. Because the extra bit is not a full 0.25 (0.2425 is 97/400), we have to ease off every 100 years and not have a leap day in years divisible by 100, unless they are also divisible by 400, in which case it IS a leap year. (So 2000 was a leap year, but 2100 will not be.)

    Hey, blame the Gregorian calendar on Pope Gregory XIII and the Catholic Church in general. They needed the lunar-based Easter celebration to stay in the springtime, instead of meandering towards winter.
  15. SubscriberVery Rusty
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    29 Feb '24 19:46
    @suzianne said
    "and a bit"

    That bit is 0.2425 days, which is why we have to cram in an extra day every 4 years to keep things straight. Because the extra bit is not a full 0.25 (0.2425 is 97/400), we have to ease off every 100 years and not have a leap day in years divisible by 100, unless they are also divisible by 400, in which case it IS a leap year. (So 2000 was a leap year, but 2 ...[text shortened]... the lunar-based Easter celebration to stay in the springtime, instead of meandering towards winter.
    Now we know the whole story on the 'bit'. 🙂

    -VR
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