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Re: Programming a calendar system

From:Carsten Becker <post@...>
Date:Saturday, May 1, 2004, 11:18
My mail does not seem to arrive, or it takes very long today ... sorry for
maybe doing a double post!

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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@MAIL.COM <mailto:markjreed@...>>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Programming a calendar system


> > ... I guess the sky isn't still blue anymore thus? => The sun is
white.
> > The sky would still be blue; an Earthlike atmosphere will always
result
> in a blue sky, no matter what the spectrum of the star. And the sun's > spectrum would be more toward the red end, but we'd still see it as > white light, and eyes which evolved on the planet would definitely
still
> see it as white light.
I'm glad you didn't misunderstand me! I thought the colour of the sky might have something to do with the sun's colour.
> As far as the calendar goes, do you want to rebase on -14 (15 BC) or > leave it based on -986?
No, it's OK like that! Thank you. 4900 years are more than enough space to fill with con-history! Carsten