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At the risk of being "that guy", a day is not the time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.

• amiga386 2y ago
  Yes, the earth has rotated on its axis and a little bit more in a solar day (361°, 24h0m). You can count sidereal days instead (360°, 23h56m) if you want to stop after exactly one rotation.
• campbel 2y ago
  This article is "being that guy" and I love it. I assume you are referring to solar day?
• Timwi 2y ago
  Thank you, I was going to point that out myself. To let you not feel alone, I'll be “that guy” with another one: The article talks about “when the dinosaurs roamed the earth”. Even ignoring for a moment that they're still roaming just fine today (birds are dinosaurs), this pretends like there was a singular moment when dinosaurs were “roaming”. In reality, of course, dinosaurs have existed for hundreds of millions of years; way longer than twice the time since the K-Pg extinction event (which, again, didn't fully cause all dinosaurs to go extinct).
  • zahlman 2y ago
    In English, the word "when" can validly refer to an arbitrarily long period of time, not just a point in time.
• zokier 2y ago
  To be more pedantic, doesn't that depend on your choice of coordinate system?