Since it's basically going to be dark when you leave for work and when you get home would you be in favor of Florida's proposal for the entire country to stay on DST and quit moving the clocks back and forth?
Staying on daylight savings time year round
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Are you mowing in November and December?
I run in the mornings. I live in the west part of the Central Time zone. I don't like it being dark until 7:00 am. If I was on Eastern Time, dark until 8:00 am would be miserable.
I will always want to do opposite of what Florida does. Majority of the weirdos live there. Glen
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It's great if you're an amateur astronomer, but the clouds have to cooperate, too.
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I'm not a fan of it being dark when my kid is going to the bus stop in the mornings. She leaves at about 7:15 and now it will be the equivalent of 6:15. Feels less safe for kids in middle school to be walking around in the dark. More risk of car's hitting them or people trying to grab them.
Screw this business of changing our clocks twice a year by a full hour to try to keep up with the changes of daylight.
We should change the time everymonth week day by a minute during the spring months of March, April and May and again, but in the reverse direction, in the fall months of September, October, and November.
Don't forget to set your clock back a minute every day in the fall!
Don't forget to set your clock forward a minute every day in the spring!
We should change the time every
Don't forget to set your clock back a minute every day in the fall!
Don't forget to set your clock forward a minute every day in the spring!
:eyes: Don't know if sarcasm or not...
You do know that your child will now have more daylight for the bus in the morning, right? What was 7:30 am is now 6:30 am. And unless the bus drops off at 5:00 pm, vampires won't be an issue after school.
Spring forward makes dark bus catching an issue.
Completely random comment. My daughter wants a telescope....she’s young (6) and hasn’t gazed yet. We don’t want to spend too much. I’ve read that the Orion Funscope or Celestron Firstscope are good choices.....what do you think?
The idea of the sun not rising till 9a Dec-Feb is awful. Want to send your kids out 2 hrs before sun up to catch the bus?
China for once has a better answer imo: They have one time nationwide. So never have to ask what time is it in NY or CA or Idiot's Branch. People/businesses adjust when they wake up/start work vs. clock to suit their needs. Clock time is artificial anyway if not on sun time. Why should E-town & BG be an hour different? (Hold your sarcasm if possible for ya.)
I'm retarded. Had it reversed. Was just thinking about it getting darker when she left for school the last few weeks and had it backwards in my head. This daylight savings talk can be confusing when posting late at night when there is no daylight and you should be in bed.
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It has to break somewhere. Using a sundial they are only a couple of minutes apart.
Kentucky should all be Central Time zone.
360 degrees on the globe / 24 hours equals 15 degrees per hour. Starting at Greenwich that should be seven and a half degrees east and 7 1/2 degrees west. Near Philly is 75° and St Louis is 90°. Everything between 82.5 and 97.5 should be the central time zone. But people and politicians have screwed that up.
Each degree west (65 or so miles) is 4 minutes using a sundial.
Not using Daylight Savings would lead to some early sun rises in summer. Staying on it would lead to some late sunrises in winter.
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Horrible idea.
Trying to match the sun with time. Nobody should be more than 30 minutes off with our system. China is many hours off.
Any time on a clock is made up/fake. What difference does it matter what the number is when everyone is the same number? What's wrong with the sun coming up when clock reads 2am and setting at 3pm? Why 24 hours in a day? This am/pm stuff is crap anyway. Many/most countries using 0-24 military type clocks.
I was always told that the time change saved energy but that's probably a load of poop.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/56725-does-daylight-saving-time-save-energy.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/56725-does-daylight-saving-time-save-energy.html
That would be awesome. I'd much rather have daylight after normal working hours than before. Those kids walking to school can get a yellow vest.
It will only be that way in the spring when we move the clocks forward. as it is now we moved them back an hour so your 7:15 is like 8:15 so for at least a few weeks until the days get shorter, it will be light out at 7:15 AM.
Closer to equator you are, the less it matters - hours of daylight change less. HI doesn't do it either. Not sure why FL & TX do.
Didn’t know
About Hawaii...
I’ve heard France also doesn’t do it...?
I’ve also read that the earth rotates more slowly at the equator
And that’s why you’re seeing commercial space lift entities covet proposed US launch facilities in places like rural Texas and Georgia
I’m also on the “toilet “ right now
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Well, that's pretty young, so I wouldn't spend a whole lot, but generally, Celestron turns out a good commercial product. Those are almost identical scopes & considering the age, would probably be good first choices. Just stick to the brighter objects, like the Moon, Jupiter & Saturn, so she won't be disappointed. The Moon is best viewed from a few days before, to a few days after first quarter. The full Moon is not a good object for viewing, it's too bright & lacks the contrast of quarter phases.
I didn't get involved with astronomy until I was a teenager & all I started with was a good set of 7x35 binoculars & a star chart! A few years later, I graduated to a Cave Optical 6 inch Newtonian reflector, then started my "must have more aperture" phase. I went from an original Celestron C8 to a C9.25, then to a C11 & finally to a C14 EdgeHD. Along the way, I also dabbled in custom made scopes with a Telescope Engineering Company 5.5 inch apochromatic refractor. Apos use special low dispersion glasses to provide a nearly perfect & relatively wide field of view. I still have my TEC 5.5 inch & all of the Celestron scopes, except for the C8. All of the scopes are actually just optical tube assemblies that attach to a separate equatorial mount. Once you get serious about astronomy, you'll soon find the mount is probably more important than the scopes & can cost more, too!
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I think you actually have it backwards. The equator spins at like 1,000 mph and it is less as you go toward the poles where it is 0. Here is a picture describing it.
I think the equator would be the best area if you were to build a space elevator because the faster speed would use centrifugal force to hold the orbiting platform in place while being anchored to the Earth. Sort of like the old fair ride called Gravitron that spinned fast enough to make you stick to the walls and raise up and down without being strapped in.
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I think you actually have it backwards. The equator spins at like 1,000 mph and it is less as you go toward the poles where it is 0. Here is a picture describing it.
I think the equator would be the best area if you were to build a space elevator because the faster speed would use centrifugal force to hold the orbiting platform in place while being anchored to the Earth. Sort of like the old fair ride called Gravitron that spinned fast enough to make you stick to the walls and raise up and down without being strapped in.
You’re probably right - I was reading up on some of the non government space launch/operations entities and will he reference they made about the equator and escape velocity was honestly a new concept for me (a I’m not an engineer)
“Space elevator “ would be A GREAT band name too
