BarqsHasBite to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-29 months agoThe Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?message-square44fedilinkarrow-up1153file-text
arrow-up1153message-squareThe Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year?BarqsHasBite to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-29 months agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-29 months agoI’m intrigued by your comment, what are you referencing? edit: thanks for the answers! fascinating
minus-squareKeslink18•9 months agoThe 3 Gorges Dam in China slowed the Earth’s rotation by .06 microseconds per day due to the amount of water moved altering the Earth’s moment of inertia
minus-square@GingeyBook@lemm.eelinkfedilink9•9 months agohttps://interestingengineering.com/innovation/13-facts-about-the-controversial-massive-chinese-dam-that-slowed-the-earths-rotation
I’m intrigued by your comment, what are you referencing?
edit: thanks for the answers! fascinating
The 3 Gorges Dam in China slowed the Earth’s rotation by .06 microseconds per day due to the amount of water moved altering the Earth’s moment of inertia
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/13-facts-about-the-controversial-massive-chinese-dam-that-slowed-the-earths-rotation
My bad, added a link.