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Marklr
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I sometimes see my old comments and wonder what the fuck i was thinking at the time.
Although it is 10 years since his death.
chris63
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If you plotted the position of the Sun in the sky at 12pm (what we call Noon, but Noon isn’t actually at 12pm every day) through the year, it would show this pattern:
This is because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t circular, it’s an elipse.
We are further away from the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere’s Summertime, which is why the crossover of the shape isn’t at the half way point of the oval path (although this has little effect on the seasons). Then, the difference in the side-to-side position of the Sun at each point is due to our 23.5° tilt (which strangely has the dominant effect on the seasons, rather than our distance from the Sun).
This week, we are at the point of year in the Northern Hemisphere where the Sun sets in the sky at its earliest time of day. From around 10th December to 16th December, the Sun sets in Manchester at around 3.49pm (with 13th December being the exact earliest by the second). The shortest day of the year is around 21st December, with the daytime being from 8.22am to 3.51pm. Then the latest Sunrise of the year starts around 28th December to 1st January, in Manchester that’s 8.25am (with 30th December being the exact earliest by the second).
Certainly going back to the early Neolithic, we have been placing importance on this as a species. Solar and celestial calendar monuments like Stonehenge and the Goseck Circle in Germany are around 5,000-7,000 years old, but Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is almost 12,000 years old, which is around the dawn of farming.
None older have been found yet, but I wonder if we’ll ever find some older to show that our hunter gatherer ancestors also placed importance on the seasons due to migration of the animals they hunted at different times of the year?
For me, this^ is all the true meaning of what we call ‘Christmas’. It’s a Solar holiday, the reveration of the Sun at its most scarce time in the sky of the year, looking forward to the Sun getting stronger on the way to Summertime.
This is because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t circular, it’s an elipse.
We are further away from the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere’s Summertime, which is why the crossover of the shape isn’t at the half way point of the oval path (although this has little effect on the seasons). Then, the difference in the side-to-side position of the Sun at each point is due to our 23.5° tilt (which strangely has the dominant effect on the seasons, rather than our distance from the Sun).
This week, we are at the point of year in the Northern Hemisphere where the Sun sets in the sky at its earliest time of day. From around 10th December to 16th December, the Sun sets in Manchester at around 3.49pm (with 13th December being the exact earliest by the second). The shortest day of the year is around 21st December, with the daytime being from 8.22am to 3.51pm. Then the latest Sunrise of the year starts around 28th December to 1st January, in Manchester that’s 8.25am (with 30th December being the exact earliest by the second).
Certainly going back to the early Neolithic, we have been placing importance on this as a species. Solar and celestial calendar monuments like Stonehenge and the Goseck Circle in Germany are around 5,000-7,000 years old, but Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is almost 12,000 years old, which is around the dawn of farming.
None older have been found yet, but I wonder if we’ll ever find some older to show that our hunter gatherer ancestors also placed importance on the seasons due to migration of the animals they hunted at different times of the year?
For me, this^ is all the true meaning of what we call ‘Christmas’. It’s a Solar holiday, the reveration of the Sun at its most scarce time in the sky of the year, looking forward to the Sun getting stronger on the way to Summertime.
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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Roger Daltrey is up to Windsor for his knighthood. But what struck me is the number of 'gongs' that get given out for 'charitable work'. Do these 'worthies' cough up their own money or is it just a matter of turning up at a charitable gig and that's what counts, 'cos the thought crosses my mind that if they stumped up some cash why are charities forever scraping the barrel to make ends meet?
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mexico1970
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The bigger charities are just grifts these days it's only local charities that have any semblance of honour or integrity. Celebrities know this to be the case but associate themselves with them any way.
I have no reason not to believe Roger isn't a nice chap and does things because he genuinely believes that he's doing good things but my point about money grubbing charities stands.
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chris63
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I think it’s variable but often we don’t find out who is doing what. For example, it emerged a few years ago that Elton John had paid for three scholarships to the RCM every year, but the public knew nowt of this. Not only did he pay, he was constantly in touch with the scholars to encourage and help them.