It's 2018 on Planet Mars

I am wondering how this works. In these politically correct times, instead of AD (Anno Domini - Year of Our Lord), we have CE (common era). Ignoring w hat becomes "Year 1" and why, the Martian Year is 687 (earth) days.

So, 2018/4 = number of leap-years. (504.5). Round to 505 for a number of reasons.

Now, ((2018 x 365) + 505)/687 = number of Martian years. Or: 1072, about mid-October. Nothing quite yet the "New Year". Note that this is using eart h-standard days. Martian standard days are 1:40, or 1480 minutes.

Starting Over: ((2018 x 365 x 24 x 60) + (505 x 24 x 60))/1480 gives us th e number of Martian days involved. Comes to a little later in October of 10

1. Months are named arbitrarily by dividing the Martian year into 12 segme nts assigning the same Earth-month name to that part of the cycle.

In any case, the actual Martian New Year is a movable feast, and in 2017, w as celebrated on May 5,in Mars, Pennsylvania (where else?). The next one wi ll be +/- March 3 of 2019.

Now, I will leave it to others to calculate the same for the Chinese, Korea n, Islamic, Jewish, Orthodox, Indian, Aztec, et. al. as they see fit. All G od's Creatures have a place in the Choir - even Martians.

Happy New Year!

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote on 1/1/2018 9:05 AM:

Why do you call this "politically correct"? It's an issue of mixing religion and science. The new terms were chosen to separate a single religion from having defined notation for a scientific purpose. How is that a matter of "political correctness"?

I have found the only time this term is used is when someone wants to criticize something as being "politically correct" as if that automatically makes it undesirable without actually discussing the facts.

William of Occam figured (at least) this out a few centuries ago. Full Stop.

Pearls before swine.

Nothing annoyed Christ more than feeling like he wasn't being given enough attention. Imagine if he'd had access to Twitter

Stop.

Was that the paradox of the barber who shaved everyone who didn't shave themselves? ;-)

Mike.

I believe that one was made popular by Bertrand Russell.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

She didn't need to shave.

John ;-#)#

Which brings up a host of politically marginal issues.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

Not sure anything was actually said about shaving beards...

Mike.

Was that the paradox of the barber who shaved everyone who didn't shave themselves.

a) Not a true paradox (more on this later). b) Yes, it is about shaving beards (root of Barber is Barba - Latin for Beard).

Let's look at Achilles and the Tortoise:

a) Tortoise gets a head start. TRUE b) Achilles must cover an infinite series of half-the-distance before catching the tortoise. TRUE c) And if Achilles does reach the position of the Tortoise, it has since moved. TRUE d) Therefore Achilles will never catch the Tortoise. ????

If the barber (who might well be female) has no beard, she has no need to shave (her beard). The act of shaving is not necessarily confined to beards. Barbering is necessarily confined to beards. As a BARBER, she may shave others' beards and not be in conflict with the paradox as she is still _shaving_ herself, just not a beard. Logic chopping at its finest, but not a paradox. Conventional: A defined subset containing 0 items cannot be a paradox.

As to Xeno, we have the Crimmins Mack Truck Theory:

Give Mr. Xeno a 100' start on a Mack Truck. Observe the results.

Reality:

Achilles has no intention of catching the Tortoise, but to go somewhere far ahead of it. He may never reach the far-ahead, but he will pass the Tortoise on his way there.

Similar level of logic-chopping, but none of the premises are falsified in the process. They remain true, but not relevant.

In any case, getting back to the OP, we should all defer to Marvin and wait for his discerning input.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA