How old are you on the other planets? Check it out!

[KatanaDV20]

So I was thinking about this the other day.

We calculate our "age" and say "how old" we are every "year" because we just HAPPEN to be on the 3rd planet out whose oribital period around the Sun just happens to be 12 months (Earth months!)

Of course the further out you go the longer the orbital period of the planets and therefore our "age" is different on those. Wanna feel young? Check out your age on the outer planets

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html

 

[Nix]

You've highlighted certain aspects of your post in a rather condescending manner, almost as if you think this is some massive revelation that has not crossed anyone's mind before.

I assure you, despite us wildly humping each-other and dribbling uncontrollably, we are not retarded. Well, I can't vouch Tefal, but the rest of us aren't.

*dribbles*

 

[Spektor]

We calculate our "age" and say "how old" we are every "year" because we just HAPPEN to be on the 3rd planet

Yeah, it was touch and go for a second or two, but we made the right choice.

 

[Kurisu Makise]

i always feel young lol but this made it worse

your age is; 9.7 martian years

so what happens next?..

 

[tibbsey]

i always feel young lol but this made it worse

your age is; 9.7 martian years

so what happens next?..

You get arrested for paedophilia every time you fap.

 

[Kurisu Makise]

You get arrested for paedophilia every time you fap.

every time?

 

[KatanaDV20]

You've highlighted certain aspects of your post in a rather condescending manner, almost as if you think this is some massive revelation that has not crossed anyone's mind before.

Lol dude...reading way too much into what I meant to be a light-hearted post It was not meant to be condescending and no-one on here is retarted. It just struck *me* the other day and all I did was share it lol.

I do recall readin some cosmology book where they go on about just how *convenient* it all is - 12 neat months orbit, 24hr day, ideal sized planet (imagine travel-times if we were Juipter-size lol), just the right temps....well I could go on and no doubt theres mad debating on wether this is a "fluke" or if it was calculated.

Oh well whatever the case we're only around once so might as well enjoy

 

[JonJ678]

You could make an argument that you would be a different age on another planet based on gravitational field strength affecting the rate at which time passes. However choosing a different unit to count in doesn't change the magnitude of the measured phenomena, it's exactly as meaningful to multiply your age by 7 and proclaim that you're counting in dog years.

The number of months per year has varied over the course of our history. There's a good chance it's currently 12 because 12 is conveniently divisible into 2, 3, 4 and 6. The day is definitely 24 hours long because this was a convenient, arbitrary division. We have no control over ambient temperatures, but we can migrate as required and it seems likely that evolution would guide us towards surviving whatever temperature the world happened to be at.

I have a terrible feeling that you're building up to conclude that God is the only explanation for all these things you do not understand

 

[KatanaDV20]

However choosing a different unit to count in doesn't change the magnitude of the measured phenomena

V. true...whatever you measure in your cells degrade at same rate I guess. Except at near-light or light speed but that as they say is another story!

 

[Fenris]

I do recall readin some cosmology book where they go on about just how *convenient* it all is - 12 neat months orbit, 24hr day, ideal sized planet (imagine travel-times if we were Juipter-size lol), just the right temps....well I could go on and no doubt theres mad debating on wether this is a "fluke" or if it was calculated.

Uh.....our way of judging time are a purely human construction, we made our units of time to fit days/years, if our planet's day/year was longer they would still be called days/years but would be proportionately longer as well.

 

[KatanaDV20]

Yikes I should have just posted that link instead of saying stuff

All of you are of course making very valid points, specially:

our way of judging time are a purely human construction

But..er...just check out your age on Neptune and have a grin. Before I get reamed by a resident physicist/cosmologist/astronomer

 

[JonJ678]

At least one of us is confused about what reamed means, I'm going to have to go and check that one.

 

[Edward78]

131.4 years on Mercury
0.19 years on Neptune

 

[benneh]

Raah, a week on tuesday I will be 10000 days old. And to think, I would have let that pass without ever knowing. Thankyou OP, I will celebrate accordingly.

 

[Angilion]

I do recall readin some cosmology book where they go on about just how *convenient* it all is - 12 neat months orbit, 24hr day, ideal sized planet (imagine travel-times if we were Juipter-size lol), just the right temps....well I could go on and no doubt theres mad debating on wether this is a "fluke" or if it was calculated.

Sheesh, not this again!

Does anyone other than the OP not understand why the above is completely wrong?

Although this example is even worse than normal...

"12 neat months orbit"? 12 months of differening duration arbitrarily decided by some people that happens to have stuck. That's neither neat nor indicative of someone making/choosing this planet for humans. We could just as easily split the year into, for example, 33 months of 11 days and add some extra days in as required.

"24 hour day"? Yes, because some people arbitrarily decided that and it stuck. We could just as easily split the day into 100 hours, or 10, or 37.

If you're talking about the actual duration of one orbit and one rotation, so what? LIfe that's adapted for that length of day and that length of year wouldn't suit a planet with a very different length of day and year, but that's because it's adpated for this length of day and year.

You're looking really desperate to "prove" your religion.