• Prehensile_cloaca
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    1653 months ago

    Time zones? What, like I step over a line on the ground and I’m in the future? Pfffft.

    • @[email protected]
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      1203 months ago

      It’s so much worse than that. The people in the GMT +13 time zone had 19 hours to warn us about 9/11 in 2001, and they did nothing!

        • @[email protected]
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          63 months ago

          You joke, but if the US had done that for COVID, things would have been a lot better. Sure, it’s the right answer for the wrong reasons, but it wouldn’t be a change for the worse compared to the current methods.

        • @[email protected]
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          53 months ago

          I’m sorry for the bad news, but it’s terrible in the future. Just like every other day

      • @[email protected]
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        183 months ago

        Well yeah, they’re all old and forgetful. They could come West and be younger but they don’t care. They’re old.

        • Echo Dot
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          173 months ago

          If you go to the North pole and run around in circles you can easily get years into the past.

          • @[email protected]
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            123 months ago

            That’s a common misconception. Magnetic north declination from geographic north increases to its maximum as one approaches the geographic north pole (by definition). Yes, technically, your geographic time may reverse by years, but the increase in magnetic time, being equal and opposite, will effectively cancel out that effect.

            • Ricky Rigatoni
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              103 months ago

              This kind of troll science is the caliber that makes actual conspiracies form when stupid people read it.

            • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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              33 months ago

              Sure but you forgot one thing. Gravity.

              Gravity pulls down, so when you go towards the North Pole you are actually getting further from gravity and that lesser force still pushes the entire effect into the positive. If you tried this in the south pole you would actually get older!

              • @[email protected]
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                13 months ago

                It would if the earth were a perfect sphere, but in reality, it’s an oblate sphereoid. This means that an observer actually gets closer to the center of gravity as one approaches a pole.

                • Lv_InSaNe_vL
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                  23 months ago

                  Maybe. But everyone knows gravity pulls “down” and not “towards the center of the oblate spheroid” (nonsense word made up by “”“mathematicians”“” to make us look like fools)

                  • @[email protected]
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                    13 months ago

                    I think you win this time. I spent a week trying to think of a clever comeback, but it’s just not happening.

        • @[email protected]
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          73 months ago

          Wouldn’t they get younger more quickly if they moved east across the much-shorter distance to the international date line?

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            Some say that if you go to the international date line and climb over the map’s edge, you’ll find the secret fifth Carmel Tunnel that will take you straight to Big Math HQ. They won’t let you go there easily.

              • @[email protected]
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                23 months ago

                I just need to look up a few Bible quotes out of context, make up a few math equations, put up a not at all suspicious link and an oddly specific location in the middle of nowhere, and then I’m all set.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    23 months ago

                    Just got the Bible verses of 1:6 and 1:7 for a source of one, I also just drew a map. Big Math Co. is in there somewhere.

                    I have not decided on a title for myself yet, although I’m sure I can just take a name from the Bible again. Now I just need to get all those people…