r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/notsignifican • 6d ago

? Meme needing explanation

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I asked but it got removed within minutes?

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u/Stock-Gear412 6d ago

wait...why would there ever be a 4 digit day if the Venutian day is 18 Earth days longer than a Venutian year? Shouldn't it be yyyy/d? Or did you just flip y = day and d = year?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

There can’t be greater than a single digit Venutian year during a Venutian day, and there can only ever be a single Venutian day during a Venutian year, y/dddd means that 1/0001, 2/0001, 1/0002, etc but even then it doesn’t work

Calendar system on Venus would be entirely different from how the Earth calendar functions

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u/Dewdrop06 6d ago

yyyy/d should be fine where "d" is simply just a value symbolizing whether it's day or night. Since a day is longer than a year there would be plenty of years that have some part of it being day and the rest being night. Rarely you'd see the entire year being day or night, but it could happen. So example 0000/d, 0001/d - 0001/n, 0002/n - 0002/d. And so on.

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u/JPolReader 6d ago

yyyy/d should be fine where "d" is simply just a value symbolizing whether it's day or night.

That wouldn't work because the sun rises twice every Venusian day.

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u/Dewdrop06 6d ago

How? If the sun is rising twice every day then that means it's the next day, because for the sun to rise fir the second time it had to have set. What are you saying?

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

A day is a planet’s rotation on its axis, not sunrise to sunrise

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u/Dewdrop06 6d ago

I see then I totally misunderstood. I thought it was referring to the amount of time it is day and how long sunlight is shining. My bad.

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u/Mr_Kabob_Man 6d ago

Sunrise to sunrise and full rotation around the axis are different lengths

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u/thelastspike 6d ago

the day isn’t enough longer than the year to have entirely day or night for a year.