• Re: xkcd: Light Leap Years

    From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Wed Feb 21 16:52:23 2024
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    On 2/21/2024 1:23 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    xkcd: Light Leap Years
       https://xkcd.com/2897/

    No, no, no, no.  That is not how things work.  Randall is messing with
    us again.

    You say that like you are under the impression the is ever NOT messing
    with us....

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    dirty old man.

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  • From John Savard@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 23 23:48:17 2024
    On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:52:23 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2/21/2024 1:23 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    xkcd: Light Leap Years
    �� https://xkcd.com/2897/

    No, no, no, no.� That is not how things work.� Randall is messing with
    us again.

    You say that like you are under the impression the is ever NOT messing
    with us....

    Messing with us? I don't think Randall was trying to fool anyone into
    thinking that light years changed in length depending on the length of
    the current year. This was a joke; the cartoon was intended to make
    people laugh!

    John Savard

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