Astronomers Hate Leap Years
IT TOOK UNTIL FEBRUARY, BUT I FINALLY GOT ALL THE DISTANCES UPDATED! I REALLY WISH WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS. PROXIMA CENTAURI DISTANCE: 4.2437 LY ASTRONOMERS HATE LEAP YEARS BECAUSE THEY MAKE LIGHT-YEARS 0.27% LONGER.
A simple black-and-white comic shows an astronomer updating the recorded distance to Proxima Centauri while another person watches. The joke falsely treats leap years as changing the length of a light-year, creating extra work for astronomers and parodying overly literal scientific explanations. It is used as an absurd reaction to needless bureaucracy, calendar complications, or pedantic corrections. EN: A simple black-and-white comic shows an astronomer updating the recorded distance to Proxima Centauri while another person watches. The joke falsely treats leap years as changing the length of a light-year, creating extra work for astronomers and parodying overly literal scientific explanations. It is used as an absurd reaction to needless bureaucracy, calendar complications, or pedantic corrections.
- @rzeczyzabawne / 15168 2024-02-21
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- absurd, sarcastic
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