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Hipparchus, whose work primarily took place between 147 and 127 B.C., proposed dividing the day into 24 equinoctial hours, based on the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness observed on equinox days.
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NoiseWiki wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:08 am Hipparchus, whose work primarily took place between 147 and 127 B.C., proposed dividing the day into 24 equinoctial hours, based on the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness observed on equinox days.
Ah...Sumeria dude.
About 4000 years before Hipparchus.
The Sumerians divided night and day into 12 equal hours each, whose length varied with the seasons as the length of the daylight hours changed. They also divided the astronomical day, our 24 hours, into 12 equal hours, and each hour into 30 smaller units, making for 360 of these smaller units for each day.


Also the sumerians squared the circle about 4 or 5000 years before Pythagoras.


My thoughts are that a lot of this info was readily (if you had the linguistic skills) available in the library of Alexandria before it was partially destroyed the first time.
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RUBBISH wrote: Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:14 am The Sumerians divided night and day into 12 equal hours each, whose length varied with the seasons as the length of the daylight hours changed.
That'd be confusing as fuck. Way worst than daylight savings. Anyway the reason why I looked it up was this early SNL (actually just Saturday Night at the time I think) sketch about converting to a metric week.
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George Romero got his start with Mr Roger's
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NoiseWiki wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:00 am George Romero got his start with Mr Roger's
Yes I saw that in the doc about night of the living dead!

That's so funny.
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Brendan the Navigator(patron saint of whales sailors fisherman and boats), and a small group of Irish monks, travelled to North America sometime between 512 and 530 AD.
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The inventor of the pixel regretted making it square
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Rainbow washing is fucking gay.
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The cry of a human baby is about 115 decibels.
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In the opening for The Simpsons, when Maggie is scanned at the cash register, the price that flashes on screen for under a second is $847.63. This was the average national cost of supporting a baby for a month in 1989 according to the US government, which was when the show first aired

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