Posted on 06/20/2016 7:46:56 AM PDT by JimSEA
The summer solstice is upon us: Monday, June 20, will be the longest day of 2016 for anyone living north of the equator. If pagan rituals are your thing, this is probably a big moment for you. If not, the solstice is still pretty neat. This year’s even includes a "strawberry moon," the first time that’s happened since 1967.
Below is a short scientific guide to the longest day of the year (though not, as we’ll see, the longest day in Earth’s history — that happened back in 1912).
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
I’ll wait for the moving version.
Unfortunately the website appears to be pro Hillary from the pop ups.
Radagast the Brown found Gandalf at Midsummer’s Day to warn him that the Nine were once more abroad.
Interesting enough, but the author had to throw in the obligatory paen to global warming.
The longest day was June 6th, 1944....They even made a movie of it...”The Longest Day” starring John Wayne and many, many others....:o)
It’s Vox but generally straight article. Hillary ads are painful.
Slightly off-topic, but I was at Chichen Itza during the fall equinox and got to see the shadows of the edge of the pyramid line up perfectly as diamond marks on the “snake” step wall going up the pyramid. This day is the only day of the year it happens...The Mayans were some brilliant mathematicians and astronomers...
Interesting enough, but the author had to throw in the obligatory paen to global warming.
Vox was founded by liberal columnist Ezra Klein.
The site is pure Soros.
The writer gets in plugs for muslims and global warming in this article supposedly about the summer solstice.
Yup, and I made my reservation at Stonehenge Inn. Gonna sing a few Druid songs and do a few Druid dances.
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Just don’t drink too much mead, that’s a nasty hangover.
I thought the longest day was when God stop the Earth from turning for 6 hours or so while Joshua was fighting a battle.
That too.
The precise time of the solstice is 6:34 p.m. EDT. That means that for Asia, Australia, and parts of Europe and Africa, the solstice occurs on June 21 local time—that is, for close to two-thirds of the human population of the world.
I wonder what would happen if the sun didn’t turn around at the solstice and just kept going away.
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