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True. And having 7 days per week is majorly impractical, also for reasons of divisibility. With 7 being prime, it's impossible to do things every other day or e
by tcmb 3y ago
True. And having 7 days per week is majorly impractical, also for reasons of divisibility. With 7 being prime, it's impossible to do things every other day or every three days without being left with a remainder.
- w-ll 3y agoUnless you are a bodybuilder. https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
- brettermeier 3y agoWhat a great conversation. How did you find those posts from 15 years ago? XD
- offices 3y agoIt's a shame the internet has pinned this on bodybuilders just because of the URL. TheJosh has a progress photo on his profile - he must be very deep into an offseason. bodybuilding.com is a general exercise forum and is infamous for the trolling on its misc board.
- guntherhermann 3y agoI don't think I've genuinely laughed at an internet conversation like this in such a long time. Thanks for that. I should join a forum again.
- blurbleblurble 3y agoBut at least 7 days per week resonates approximately with the lunar orbit.
- michaelhoney 3y agoclearly we need to reposition the moon
- wizofaus 3y agoOr genetically engineer ourselves to have a different number of fingers
- mistercheph 3y agoWouldn't that make sense in a context where the useful number of 6 counts the days reserved for the affairs of mankind, and the seventh was an extra day reserved for rest or worship? I.e. the background of our 7 day week
- shiroiuma 3y agoI'm sure that's religious revisionism (just like the Christmas holiday). Like so many time-based things, the 7-day week comes from the cycles of the Moon, and goes back at least as far as the Babylonians.
- mistercheph 3y agoRight, religious zealots have been ever revising the story of human history, which has been mostly secular peoples that practiced empiricism and appreciated astronomical phenomena as interesting but did not take them as divine.
- wizofaus 3y agoJust as bad as having 31 days a month, for randomly chosen months. If any periods of time need to fixed it's surely weeks and months. How about 5 day weeks (3 working, 2 not - and yes, therefore 10-day "fort"nights) and scrap months altogether...