Thanks Haken for the pretty twinkling lights that are so festive, and for the website in general. May your celebrations be joyous!

POSTED BY: 1KIKI
UPDATED: Saturday, December 12, 2020 03:49
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1KIKI

Thursday, December 10, 2020 2:27 AM

BRENDA

Thursday, December 10, 2020 2:53 AM

Thank you Haken for keeping the website up and running.

SIGNYM

Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:56 AM

Indeed!

Merry whatever to Haken, and many thanks and blessings!

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

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JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, December 11, 2020 8:00 PM

I found it interesting that Christianity would survive in space in Firefly seen by way of Shepherd Book's character, born Henry? Ron Glass seemed to have brought maybe also elements of Zen or Buddhism to the role, I think Ron himself was Buddhist. I wonder how Space would track the months and days, every plant a different orbit, different days and perhaps a separate definition of their own type of hours. Imagine some future Elon Musk Chinese space cities out there, should space settlers keep track of Earth time while living on the Moon or Mars?

1KIKI

Saturday, December 12, 2020 3:49 AM

Well, we have our own biological clocks ca24 hours, and we need to keep our lives running by them, or all hell breaks loose with our biology. ~24H days are pretty much a given. One could easily set different parts of a ship, and the people on them, on different 24H cycles as - with any operation expecting attack - somebody would need to be awake at all times. I don't know what they would do on planet with a definitely not- ~24H cycle.

Years are not biological so much. But people would need a way to track time long-term. Because, if nothing else, our biology runs long-term. There are things about an infant that are different from a teen from a middle-age from an elder. So some longer-term time scale greater than days is needed. But on earth even today our years can be some combination of solar years and lunar years. So I imagine 'years' could be a tradition. And we humans do hew to our meaningful traditions! (People in all places except where weather is non-seasonal do tend to celebrate the shortest day of the year - winter solstice - though, as a signal that the sun will return, along with planting, animal births etc. Christmas was moved to be closer to the pagan solstice celebration, an important date in many traditions.)