Yep, it took thousands of years of trial and error to perfect what we have today. Just working out how many sunrises to a year took a lot of research and the science to it was building systems similar to the Stone Henge set up. Obviously they knew what they had to do before they put the stones...
Just as a matter of fact;
The reason why we have a 60 second minute, 60 minute hour, 24 hour day, roughly 30 days to a month, 12 months to a year and 365/366 days to year, is because 6 is easier to divide by than any other number.
That is why man/woman came up with the time calculation. It...
:thumbsup: I would find it harder to believe that there wasn't intelligent life out there, and if we were the only intelligent civilisation it’s even more of a miracle just being here on NSC.
I mean what are the chances of that?
Did I make a mistake in my calculations :shrug:
At the current speed Voyager 1 is travelling 17 km/ps it would take 8.8 million years to travel 500 light years.
Am I wrong? :)
The hunt for Earth’s alien twin reached a new milestone with the discovery of a faraway planet that’s similar in size to our globe and has the right temperature to potentially support liquid water — and possibly life.
The planet, called Kepler-186f, is the first Earth-size sphere outside our...