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The glory of spring sort of begins. "Equinox" literally means when night and day are equal (equi - equal, nox = night).
But the earth must have flattened out or something, or perhaps the Gregorian reworking of the calendar -- taking the planet's timekeeping away from the moon -- has gone askew.
This year, "the length of daylight is actually longer than darkness by several minutes," reports space.com. Just look at this phony CGI being presented as actual video of the planet as spring arrives: jwplayer.com.
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- VIDEO: Earth is spinning too quickly: Clocks aren’t keeping up (Live Science via MSN)
- How many moons does Earth have? (MSN)
- Space.com: Earth's history and atmosphere
Vernal equinox 2023 brings spring to the Northern Hemisphere with a not-so-equal timing twist
Joe Rao (space.com, 3/20/23)
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| Joe Rao, spring season "expert" |
It's time to say goodbye to winter -- at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
On Monday (March 20) at 5:24 pm EDT (2:24 pm PDT) the spring (vernal) equinox occurs.
At that moment, the sun comes to one of two places where its rays shine directly down on the equator. It will then be shining equally on both halves of the Earth (Bhumi, Terra, Tierra, Ertha).
More precisely at that moment, the sun will be shining directly down on the equator at a point over the Pacific Ocean, roughly 1,900 miles (3,100 km) southeast of the Hawaiian Islands.
Not "equal" on the equinox!
Another complexity involving the vernal equinox concerns the axiom, "equal days and equal nights on the equinox." Yet each year I [Joe Rao] always get at least one or two inquiries asking why that isn't so.
Perhaps someone, skimming through the weather page of their newspaper on the day of the equinox, looked at the almanac box, which provides the local time of sunrise and sunset, and noticed that the length of day and night is not equal at all.
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| Banned! (ericdubay.com) |
As the table below shows, days and nights are equal not on the equinox, but on Saint Patrick's Day: More
- Does the flat earth model do any better at explaining what's really going on? Let's ask the expert in the most trouble for daring to provide abundant evidence for a plane rather than a globe-planet, EricDubay.com
- We've been lied to about our moon. It's full of archeological evidence of ETs like glass dome that will be visible with filters during eclipse:
- theothersideofmidnight.com (Richard C. Hoagland)
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| Ban Eric Dubay! Obey the gatekeepers (Facebook.com/UniverseUnplugged) |
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