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Title: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: Ralph Damren on August 22, 2019, 01:26:13 PM
To break the ice, try this on your crew :

[/WHICH ARE THE LONGEST AND SHORTEST DAYS OF THE YEAR ????

Who's got the answer .... aWaRd
b]
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: TampaSteve on August 22, 2019, 02:25:33 PM
either a solstice (sp?) or a equinox of sorts (sp?) i reckon...
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: riffraft on August 22, 2019, 02:51:09 PM
To break the ice, try this on your crew :

[/WHICH ARE THE LONGEST AND SHORTEST DAYS OF THE YEAR ????

Who's got the answer .... aWaRd
b]

All days are the same length. Issues is how much daylight  >:D
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: ElvisLives on August 22, 2019, 03:11:05 PM
Which weighs more: A pound of nails or a pound of feathers?
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: colorado_lines on August 22, 2019, 05:53:30 PM
All days are the same length. Issues is how much daylight  >:D

That actually depends on your definition of a day.  As an astronomer we actually refer to both the solar and the sidereal day.  The sidereal day is how long it takes Earth to rotate 360 degrees on its axis, the solar day is how long it takes for the Sun to return to the same point in the sky; since we orbit the Sun, the two quantities are not the same.  A sidereal day is always 23 hours 56 minutes, the length of a solar day varies based on where we are in our orbit around the Sun.  This year the longest solar day was actually January 3rd and the shortest was July 4th.  Our 24 hour clocks come from the average of the solar day over a whole year.  Yes, I know I'm a nerd.
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: JasonTX on August 22, 2019, 10:18:09 PM
Which weighs more: A pound of nails or a pound of feathers?

Would you rather a thousand pound box of bricks fall on you or a box with a thousand pounds of feathers?   ;D
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: Legacy Zebra on August 22, 2019, 10:30:21 PM
Which weighs more: A pound of nails or a pound of feathers?

The feathers. With the nails, it's just a pound of nails. With the feathers you also have to carry around the weight of what you did to those birds.  ;D
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: ElvisLives on August 22, 2019, 10:45:47 PM
The feathers. With the nails, it's just a pound of nails. With the feathers you also have to carry around the weight of what you did to those birds.  ;D

Now, that’s funny!  I don’t care who ya are!  (My apology to Larry.)
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: Ralph Damren on August 26, 2019, 01:28:56 PM
Sorry, guys, none were very close. If you are a state that shifts to daylight savings time, the clock "falling back" that Sunday in November gives you a 25 hour day while springing ahead on that Sunday in March gives you a 23 hour day.........

[/NOW LETS PLAY SOME FOOTBALL !!b]
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: riffraft on August 26, 2019, 02:34:29 PM
Sorry, guys, none were very close. If you are a state that shifts to daylight savings time, the clock "falling back" that Sunday in November gives you a 25 hour day while springing ahead on that Sunday in March gives you a 23 hour day.........

[/NOW LETS PLAY SOME FOOTBALL !!b]

So I was right, since I live in Arizona, a state that does not have the stupidity of Daylight Savings Time.  :P
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: ElvisLives on August 26, 2019, 05:00:39 PM
So I was right, since I live in Arizona, a state that does not have the stupidity of Daylight Savings Time.  :P

The only thing stupid about DST is switching back to standard time.  We should have DST all year round.  Who needs the sun going to work?  We need daylight for golf after work, etc., etc., etc.
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: Magician on August 26, 2019, 05:21:26 PM
The only thing stupid about DST is switching back to standard time.  We should have DST all year round.  Who needs the sun going to work?  We need daylight for golf after work, etc., etc., etc.

Usually the concerned moms who have kids at school bus stops. Not an irrational concern.
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: riffraft on August 27, 2019, 09:23:02 AM
The only thing stupid about DST is switching back to standard time.  We should have DST all year round.  Who needs the sun going to work?  We need daylight for golf after work, etc., etc., etc.

I don't care which way the clock is what is stupid is changing it twice a year.
Title: Re: Still waiting for that opening kickoff........
Post by: ElvisLives on August 27, 2019, 09:30:38 AM
Usually the concerned moms who have kids at school bus stops. Not an irrational concern.

Not a big deal in Texas.  Our kids have guns. :o